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Trabalhadores maduros

Junho 27o, 2007 por histórias do sucesso do negócio de China

Por Mulligan Frank

Trabalhadores madurosExpatriates são uma parte grande da vida de negócio em China. Trouxeram uma quantidade boa de tecnologia, de gerência e de conhecimento prático para carregar nos desafios que enfrentam a base industrial de China. Em muitas maneiras você poderia dizer que trouxeram uma plataforma nova do manufacturing a China e a economia estêve construída pelo menos em parte em torno dela.

Infelizmente, expatriates tendem a trazer o bom e o bad com eles. Não pode realmente ser nenhuma outra maneira, e não é em nenhuma maneira um criticism.

Para expatriates prender recrutar ou as posições da hora em China isto significam que trazem os processos e os modelos que se relacionam a empregar da equipe de funcionários em seu país home. Prendem estes modelos em sua cabeça e tentam frequentemente aplicá-los aqui ao mercado. Às vezes sabem que o estão fazendo, e os tentam minimizar os danos. Em outras vezes não estão mesmo cientes que suas suposições são inválidas.

Em China, como muito do mundo, nós estamos experimentando atualmente uma guerra do `para o Talent' que seria realmente mais exato dizer que esta guerra continua a rage, mas não let rachar os cabelos. Tem ido sobre por aproximadamente 20 anos mas ramped acima significativamente depois que China consentida ao WTO em 2001.

Uma coisa que travou minha atenção recentemente era uma linha do throw afastado por um profissional expatriate do desenvolvimento do workforce que as companhias em torno do mundo estão resolvendo sua guerra para o Talent, a alguma extensão, batendo no pool de trabalhadores maduros em seu país. A sugestão era que esta trabalharia em toda parte porque, obviamente, o `em toda parte' está sofrendo da aposentadoria do bebê Boomers da pós guerra.

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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