The Way of Employing People in Ancient Chinese Management

Strictly speaking, modern management is only 100 years old. For China, modern management emerged with the modernization of mass production after the Xinhai Revolution. After 100 years of development, modern management has developed into many disciplines including business administration, social management, technology management, public **** management, strategic management and so on. In this context, a question arises whether the management thinking embodied in ancient Chinese culture has become obsolete in today's wave of global integration and internationalization? Does it have a guiding role in modern management science? For example, the theory of yin-yang and five elements can explain all the causes and phenomena of things in ancient times, but how do we apply it today? I think we can not use the ostrich policy to turn a blind eye, but there should be some discussion and debate, to recognize what is a pseudo-theory, pseudo-science, to recognize in what sense the ancient culture has what value.

Ancient Chinese management practice has its own characteristics, especially the theory of military management, represented by Sun Tzu's "Art of War", "Five Classics", "Seven Books" is the theory of competition, many of the ideas and theories have been recognized by many Westerners. During the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods, as well as the Three Kingdoms Period, China was under special historical conditions, and the expression of military struggles reached its peak, with struggles and confrontations of strength, and battles and contests of intellect, interpreted and abstracted to the extreme in practice. If we look at it from the point of view of competition, the historical environment at that time made the competition reach the degree of you die and I live, and the contradiction of reality went to the extreme, so that the tension of thought reached the peak, therefore, the military theory of ancient China is very worthwhile to learn from in the modern society, and the important strategic thinking, tactical thinking, and strategical thinking in the military theory is precisely because all of them have the deep practical foundation, so that it will not be outdated, and cannot be evaluated with the abstract concept of time to be outdated. It cannot be evaluated as outdated by the abstract concept of time. Therefore, the ancient Chinese military theory is a guide to modern competition doctrine.

Ancient China already had effective government and organization management, dating back from the Xia Dynasty to the present day has been more than 4,000 years of history, the ancient theory and practice of government and organization management, through the test of time and history, precipitated a lot of valuable things can be learned from modern learning and reference. Especially in the talent selection system, organizational structure management, financial management, etc., the ancients left us not only words, but more importantly, theories and ideas, is the concept of enlightenment and guidance.

The rise and fall of a dynasty in ancient times has a lot of inherent similarities with the management of a modern enterprise. There are people of all classes in a dynasty, just like what kind of people there are in a company now. How order is established, how values are unified, how social cohesion is formed, and so on. In fact, the management of society is to rely on a culture to manage, so the ancient Chinese into the world of Confucianism, out of the world of Taoist thinking, whether it is on the ancient society or modern business, will have a certain impact, whether the ancients or the present day people have human nature ****, so the ancient philosophical thinking can also guide the progress of modern people.

China's science and technology, though not very advanced in modern times, reached its peak in ancient times. Take the Chinese engineering management, for example, the Great Wall, bronze Yan bells, the ancient dynasties of the palace and so on the manufacture and completion, whether from the technology or the management of people, can be seen in the ancient craft and technology of the splendor and achievements and management of the effectiveness and advanced, manufacturing each link includes process management and process management. Nowadays, people do any business, all know to do a good job of process management and process management, process re-engineering and to create barriers to publicity, these are modern people using the wisdom of ancient times and management experience to summarize the theory and methodology, is revolutionary and inherited.

To sum up I think it can be summarized in several aspects:

First, the results of military struggle and management in ancient Chinese culture. For today's society, any organization in the process of external competition has a guiding significance;

Second, the results of ancient Chinese governmental management, for modern enterprises and organizations within the management of achievements and personnel management plays an important role;

Third, the management of ancient Chinese thought and culture, for the progress of modern people to provide an indispensable philosophical and theoretical guidance.

Fourth, the advancement of technology and practice in ancient China is the crystallization of human wisdom and experience, and it is all the more important for modern people to summarize the experience and absorb the nutrients. In fact, the above four points cover the four major aspects of management systems.

Social management, government management, organizational management, science and technology management, and other aspects are very complex, in order to make the management more effective and successful, not only to learn the valuable things of ancient Chinese culture, but also the Western culture and management experience, the theory of acceptance of the Chinese way, into something differentiated, and can be absorbed into each other's sustenance, but the Western culture is a tool, and Chinese culture is a cultivation of things. But the western culture is instrumental, while the Chinese culture is the cultivation of things: one for the art, one for the road, the kernel is different, is two different connotations of things. If a person can not only master the "art", but also master the "way", then he is not only smart and has the wisdom to use wisdom to deal with people and things, in order to achieve real success.