Como ser preparado para a experiência chamou China? Pamela Lau fêz uma pesquisa científica interessante sobre o treinamento da pre-partida para os expats que planeiam ir a China.
Embora há alguma literatura que questiona o efeito do treinamento da pre-partida (Kealy e Protheroe, 1996; Selmer e outros, 1998), está desobstruído que de acordo com expatriates…
Assim o gweilo começou em um vôo de China do ar.
Parece que eu era a única pessoa non-Chinesa no plano.
O choque da cultura começou lá. O ar China do vôo não é como o vôo Air Canada. Nós fazemos exame de nossos confortos ocidentais para concedido e não apreciamos realmente o que nós temos até que remova. Esta era primeira uma introdução boa, gradual da fase para mim. Faça exame de tudo que nós somos usados a aqui e bata-o abaixo três entalhes.
Espaço, serviço, qualidade se washrooms, assento, ou alimento. I did not suffer, but realized that I was like a city guy going to visit country cousins on the farm. I was going from a developed society to a developing society. 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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