Similarities and differences between western modern scientific management and Confucian traditional humanistic management thought

After 1970s, American enterprises and Japanese enterprises suffered a crushing defeat in the market competition, forcing western management scholars to pay attention to and study the management experience of Japanese enterprises, and to reflect, evaluate and explore the previous western enterprise management theory and practice. Some western management scholars have investigated a large number of excellent and effective enterprises in Japan, the United States and other countries and found that the success of an enterprise depends on many factors. But sometimes the first thing is not the rules and regulations of the enterprise, the organizational form of the enterprise, the quantity and quality of the capital equipment owned by the enterprise, or even science and technology, but the concept and practice of people-oriented management. Since then, people-oriented management that keeps pace with the times has been rapidly implemented worldwide. People-oriented management is a people-centered management thought, which is the main feature of modern management theory at the end of the 20th century. This theory emphasizes the important position of people in management and advocates relying on people to carry out various important management activities. Although the world's top 500 enterprises have different ways to succeed, they have a common understanding of people-oriented management. Through the study of modern people-oriented management, we can find that modern people-oriented management is closely related to the Confucian people-oriented thought that emerged in the early days of our country.

Confucianism is the mainstream of China's traditional culture, which has a far-reaching influence on China and even the whole world. In the 1980s, a group of Nobel Prize winners pointed out in the Paris Declaration: "If human beings want to survive in the 2 1 century, they must go back to 2,500 years ago and absorb the wisdom of Confucius". Confucius is one of the top ten great men in the century commemorated by the United Nations. He founded Confucianism in China. Later, Mencius, Xunzi and others inherited and carried forward Confucianism. Japan, South Korea, Singapore and other countries, when developing their own economies, once combined American management science with eastern Confucian cultural thoughts on the basis of their own traditional culture, so that their economies could take off. The author thinks that in the process of building a market economy, China should not only learn advanced western management theories, but also fully understand the guiding significance of Confucian culture to modern management and effectively learn from the treasures of Confucian traditional culture.