Comment être préparé pour l'expérience a appelé la Chine ? Pamela Lau a fait une recherche scientifique intéressante au sujet de la formation de pré-départ pour des expats projetant aller en Chine.

Bien qu'il y ait de la littérature remettant en cause l'effet de la formation de pré-départ (Kealy et Protheroe, 1996 ; Selmer et autres, 1998), il est clair que selon expatrie…

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Ainsi le gweilo a obtenu sur un vol de la Chine d'air.
Il semble que j'étais la seule personne non-Chinoise sur l'avion.
Le choc de culture a commencé là. L'air Chine de vol n'est pas comme le vol Air Canada. Nous prenons nos conforts occidentaux pour accordé et n'apprécions pas vraiment ce que nous avons jusqu'à ce qu'il ait emporté. C'était une bonne, progressive première introduction de phase pour moi. Prenez tous que nous sommes employés à ici et frappez-les en bas de trois entailles. L'espace, service, qualité si salles de toilette, allocation des places, ou nourriture. Je n'ai pas souffert, mais me suis rendu compte que j'étais comme un type de ville allant rendre visite à des cousins de pays à la ferme. J'allais d'une société développée à une société se développante. They were trying to catch up with us, and doing a great job, but…

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Last night, I was on MSN chatting with my client, whose trading WFOE (Wholly Foreign Owned Enterprise) incorporation is being proceed by me currently. He hired a 21 year old assistant to assist him in daily affairs. My client sacked her a couple of days early, for her irresponsibility and laziness, and is seeking another assistant, so he asked me if I happened to know anybody. I introduced a girl who’s intending to quit her present job, and they seemed to have a good conversation on MSN later.

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I recently had the opportunity to visit two factories in the southern China town of Kaiping that produced denim jeans for a major discount retailer in the United States. Considering that the only reports of Chinese textile factories that I had come across had been critical, the visit was a (pleasant) surprise.

Working conditions were orderly and tidy, the air was cool despite scorching heat just beyond the concrete walls, generous lighting flowed from large bay windows, …

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The idea of commissioning market research in China is daunting to most Western companies. It’s a country of over 1.3 billion people with 200 dialects and 57 ethnic groups. To compound the problem, China is not homogeneous. The larger cities contain educated, Internet-savvy people who earn incomes comparable to U.S. citizens. On the other end of the spectrum, there are people living in villages who survive on $400 a year. If you ask a survey question to both groups, you are likely to get vastly different answers.

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