Es ist ein langsamer Nachrichten Tag - außer diesem vollständigen ein-Jahr-zu-gehen Sache - und während wir gereizt wurden, um mit dieser Geschichte von der Shanghai Tageszeitung zu laufen, herschten die besseren Engel unserer Natur vor und anstatt, entschieden wir, ein Excerpt von unseren populären „allgemeinen Fehlern und von Fehlannahmen neu aufzulegen, als, investierend in China - und wie man sie“ China Anweisung Ausgabe von einem Juli des letzten Jahres vermeidet.

Allgemeine Fehler, wenn chinesischer Personal verwendet wird, um Ihre Firma zu gründen oder zu leiten

Einsetzen sie in Steuerung von alles
Ja zu haben kann sehr nützlich sein, daß überhaupt-so-nett-und-leistungsfähige lokale chinesische Personhilfe Sie mit allen Aspekten des Gründens Ihrer China Betriebe, einschließlich alles Geschäft genehmigt, Büros, die Bankkonten und alle Unterlagen und so weiter anfassen. Die Sprache und die Bürokratie sind fast unintelligible und Sie sind ein beschäftigter leitender Angestellte. Aber Wartezeit; ist es normales Geschäftsverfahren, eine Person in der Steuerung aller Aspekte Ihrer Landbetriebe überall zu haben? Nr., ist es nicht und mit sehr triftigem Grund.

Ihre Fähigkeiten können möglicherweise nicht bis zu internationalen Kompetenzen ausdehnen
Obgleich sie ehrlich und nützlich tatsächlich sein können, die Weise, in der Auslandsgesellschaften in China und in den berichtenstrukturen ausgeübt werden müssen sie, müssen durchmachen, seien Sie zu denen sehr unterschiedlich, die chinesische Firmen auch haften müssen. In der Wirklichkeit fremde Geschäfte im China Gesicht weit mehr Nachforschung als chinesische Firmen. If your employee, good as they are, is not familiar with the regulatory aspects concerning operating and maintaining an international office or business in China, chances are there will be issues your company will immediately be out of compliance with. That can and does get expensive. Additionally, there are circumstances where the employee may deliberately keep the company out of compliance – to obtain benefits or other leeway later if any argument arises against their favor later on.

Having one person in control of all your corporate documents and/or banking
Very common. The risks are obvious. You can lose all your abilities to operate the company overnight if he/she decides to walk out of the door. Plus all your money.

Insertion of family and friends into your supply chain
This is very common. You need to audit your purchasing and sales departments regularly to ensure employees are not placing orders with companies owned by friends or relatives that are then charging your business at rates well over the market odds.

Setting up of parallel businesses
In one particularly nasty case we were called in to investigate, two Canadian-Chinese were hired, having worked for the parent company overseas for several years, to establish a China manufacturing entity. This they did, however the China business never was able to attain anywhere like the projected sales, and had to be continuously funded from the parent to tide it over. A variety of “market conditions,” “competitor pricing” and so on were given as excuses. When, just before a new US$1 million investment was to be injected into the China entity, the parent decided just have a quick look-see internal audit – things started to become clear. The two trusted employees had established a mirror company, with similar sounding Chinese name to the international brand, and had been diverting all orders to that business instead. “Local competitive pricing” indeed. From a business the staff themselves had established to compete with their employers.

Common mistakes when hiring expatriate employees to set up and run your China entity

There are problems with expatriate staff as well. Especially, (and unfortunately) often with personnel in professional services.

Hiring lawyers with no China experience
Expensive, and not really much point, especially if their Chinese language capabilities are minimal. However, many look good, and although their firms may have a China presence, what about their individual presence in China? International lawyers are great at international work – cross border structuring and so on – but far too many of them profess expertise in areas of China practice they are neither qualified or experienced to be dealing with. Are you looking for a salesman selling his firm, or proper advice? Really, if you need to hire a lawyer with China experience – go to a firm that has the real thing. That’s what they are there for, and China has had private lawyers now for 15 years - Google their names to see how well known they are.

Hiring personnel On their language skills alone
Well, everyone has to start somewhere. But a new kid just out of language school is still a new kid out of language school, and will have no experience dealing with the “China issues.” Don’t expect miracles. And two years in China does not an expert make. Young graduates do have skills of course, but don’t weigh them down too much with managerial responsibilities before they have had time to adjust them to a commercial business environment and have found their feet around your business. A management development program designed to maximize on their language skills yet introduce them to your business will reap greater rewards both for you and for them if you treat them with continuing educational attention.

The China guys
Expats of note are those who really know their way around, and can steer you away from all the problems. They will have a good grasp of the language, and may well have settled down with family here. You cannot survive in China without knowing how to get on, and this is a matter of experience as well as possessing inherent patience, tenacity and people and communications skills. They are available – interestingly at this time, many of the established multinationals are localizing and expatriate engineering and other talent is perhaps more available in China than ever before.