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Trabajadores maduros

27 de junio de 2007 por historias del éxito del negocio de China

Por Mulligan franco

Trabajadores madurosSe expatria son una parte grande de la vida de negocio en China. Han traído una buena cantidad de tecnología, de gerencia y de conocimiento práctico para referir los desafíos que hacen frente a la base industrial de China. De muchas maneras usted podría decir que trajeron una nueva plataforma de la fabricación a China y la economía por lo menos se ha construido en parte alrededor de ella.

Desafortunadamente, se expatria tienden para traer el bueno y el malo con ellos. No puede realmente ser ninguna otra manera, y no es de ninguna manera una crítica.

Para expatria llevar a cabo el reclutamiento o las posiciones de la hora en China esto significan que traen los procesos y los modelos que se relacionan con emplear del personal en su país de orígen. Llevan a cabo estos modelos en su cabeza e intentan a menudo aplicarlos al mercado aquí. Saben a veces que lo están haciendo, e intentan reducir al mínimo el daño. En otras veces no están incluso enterados que sus asunciones son inválidas.

En China, como mucho del mundo, estamos experimentando actualmente una guerra del `para el talento' que sería realmente más exacto decir que esta guerra continúa rabiando, sino dejarnos no partir los pelos. Se ha estado encendiendo por cerca de 20 años pero ramped para arriba perceptiblemente después de que China accedida al WTO en 2001.

Una cosa que cogió mi atención recientemente era una línea del tiro lejos de un profesional expatriado del desarrollo de la mano de obra que las compañías alrededor del mundo están solucionando su guerra para el talento, hasta cierto punto, golpeando ligeramente en la piscina de trabajadores maduros en su país. La sugerencia era que ésta trabajaría por todas partes porque, obviamente, el `por todas partes' está sufriendo del retiro del bebé de la posguerra Boomers.

The reaction here in China was a kind of embarrassed incredulity, and a degree of irritation at such a lack of understanding of the market.

So what was the basis of this lack of understanding?

Exponential Growths

First a little background material. Without laboring the point too much, demand for skills is a direct result of expansion in industrial production or increased demand for services. There is a lag in this demand but it can be shown that the overall demand has a direct correlation to the GDP growth of the country. Broad GDP growth leads to a broad growth in demand for skills and people.

In China things are a little different. The typical scenario for the growth of a particular industry has been that the government liberalizes the industry and it takes off fast, within a very short time. Latent demand kicks in and the sheer scale of opportunities causes an inrush of suppliers and manufacturers.

What this means in practice is that the government gets out of an industry and allows private players to take the lead. Foreign players then form joint ventures with the local players and the quality and quantity of product increases. Meanwhile, the introduction of newer manufacturing methods drives the price down and this in turn drives more demand.

The problem is that this growth tends to be massively exponential. So what you see is a series of exponential growth curves that represent the take off in telecommunications, automotive, banking, shipping and so on.

If you remember anything about your high school mathematics courses you will see instantly see that it is very difficult to look back through the skills pipeline to find strong skills going back to the time before the market was liberalized. The available skill set for a given age group tends towards zero very fast.

So you are going to find it extremely difficult to find a 20-year veteran in any given industry in China coming to you with a real understanding of modern production methods. And of course you won’t find the depth of experience in the younger professional who does have the understanding of modern production methods.

So, we haven’t neglected this source of skills. For all intents and purposes it just doesn’t exist.

Frank Mulligan, Talent Software

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