El error mucha gente hace cuando contratar fabricantes o los productos que compran a China es pensar barato. El precio coste-más bajo más bajo, descuento del descuento del descuento. Hay un alternativa y mucho mejor que los comerciantes no están explotando actualmente.

Por ejemplo deja la toma al par de zapatos. El casi 50% de todos los zapatos vendieron en el Reino Unido originan en China. Ahora los costes implicaron en la fabricación de un par de zapatos incluyen el coste de materiales, IE. cuero, el coste de empaquetado, el coste de…

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Según Épocas financieras, todos elegimos la carrera incorrecta cuando decidíamos ser fabricantes, doers y ayudantes. El dinero grande está en dinero de mudanza alrededor, y los mejores repartos del sueldo de China se están dando a los fabricantes del reparto ahora.

Las compañías de servicios financieros chinas e internacionales locales han beneficiado de la abertura reciente del mercado. Las compañías extranjeras han llegado un buen rato, con los volúmenes enormes de efectivo que chapoteaban alrededor en cuentas bancarias ingratas, o mintiendo debajo de los colchones. Es la reunión perfecta de la fuente y de la demanda.

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Collective labour contracts have been developed and promoted by the Chinese government and the All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU) since the mid-1990s. Thus far, however, because of the lack of genuine worker participation in the contract negotiations, they have brought only limited benefit to China’s workers.

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By Dan Harris

My friend Chris Carr, dean of the CalPoly MBA program and the brains behind the International Business Tour blog has a very thoughtful post, entitled, “Will Paying More Change Behavior And Make Someone More Ethical?” Thoughtful, but wrong.

The post centers on whether paying more gets you better performance and/or better ethics, and Chris pretty much says it does not:

“Some suggested that we could solve the problem of too many defective products coming from China by paying more to the Chinese suppliers that make this stuff. I questioned that assumption, and still do.

One example I gave in that discussion thread was that if paying people more solved the problem, then why does paying most good employees more still result in good performance, but not superior performance? (See Comment No. 29.) And why does paying most bad employees more money still get you bad performance, and not good performance? (If you feel that more money correlates to higher performance, come see me after you have hired, managed and fired more than a few people, and let’s compare notes.)”

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By Alexander de Neree

Besides the human tragedy, there has always been a certain irony in the fact that the communist system has never been able to achieve its main goal: to bring prosperity to the masses.

More specifically in China, there first where the farmers that did not particularly benefited from the revolution that was undertaken in their name. And now, much to Beijing’s chagrin one imagines, one scandal after another regarding the maltreatment of workers hits the international press circuit.

But, help is underway. Starting January 1, 2008, the new labour contract law will come in force in China. Surprisingly it has many characteristics of the Dutch system which will give rise to some alarm among employers familiar with the Dutch system. Read the rest of “Workers’ paradise” or post a comment