The Application of Confucianism in Modern Enterprises

Confucianism has influenced us in all aspects, not only in education, but also in our enterprise management. How to manage modern enterprises with Confucianism? Let me answer for you, I hope I can help you!

Taking history as a mirror and taking the past as gold can not only continue to inherit fine traditions, but also innovate modern civilization. The humanistic thought in Confucian culture can be used for reference in modern enterprise management, so that managers can manage teams and enterprises scientifically and effectively, and can effectively stimulate the enthusiasm of employees to serve enterprises. This paper will study the application of Confucian humanism in modern enterprise management.

First, an overview of Confucian humanism

In the cultural history of China, Guan Zhong in the Spring and Autumn Period was the first to put forward the people-oriented thought. In Guanzi Bayan, he said: "People-oriented is also the place where the husband overlooks the country. The country is solid because of the principle, and the country is in danger because of the chaos." He believes that the management of the country should be people-oriented, otherwise there will be a crisis. As the core and essence of China's traditional thought, the most distinctive feature of humanistic thought can be traced back to the leap of humanistic spirit in religion in the early Zhou Dynasty. The greatest contribution of Zhou Dui's reform is to integrate people's conscious spirit into religious sacrificial life, which is embodied in Zhou people's ethical thoughts of "matching life" and "respecting morality and protecting people" However, this is only the consciousness and requirement of a few rulers. Later, it gradually extended to the consciousness of the aristocratic class in the Spring and Autumn Period, and it was not until Confucius, the founder of Confucianism, first "discovered ordinary people". Later, it was developed and extended by Mencius and Xunzi.

(A) Confucius's humanistic thought

"Similar in sex, far from learning from each other's strengths", Confucius believed that people all have similar essence and tend to be perfect. People show different subjective initiative and enthusiasm because of different habits; Confucius advocated Zhang's personality pursuit based on benevolence. "Benevolence", based on benevolence, can realize mutual respect and tolerance between people, but this does not mean that principles are not emphasized.

The intrinsic meaning of Confucius' humanistic thought is "benevolence". "Benevolence" embodies the Confucian humanistic management thought. Yan Yuan's "The Analects of Confucius" records: "Fan Chi seeks benevolence. Confucius said,' love'. " Defining man by his lover embodies "a simple humanistic concern, which first means confirming the supremacy of man in the species of heaven and earth." "Yang Huo's Analects of Confucius" contains: "Lutz asked Confucius for benevolence. Confucius said,' Being able to do the following five things is benevolence.' Please ask questions. Say:' public, tolerant, trustworthy, people, and benefit. These five words are the specific requirements of "benevolence", that is, respect, generosity, honesty, diligence and kindness. These virtues still have their important value and play an important role in modern enterprise management.

(B) Mencius' humanistic thought

Mencius believes that people who are born good have compassion, shame, resignation and a view of right and wrong. The goodness of human nature is innate, but it can change with the change of environment and can be developed and improved through the efforts of the day after tomorrow. Mencius developed Confucius' ideal personality based on benevolence into specific provisions such as benevolence, courtesy and wisdom, and he could not give love without principle, but should be benevolent in his heart and follow the path of benevolence, and aesthetically emphasized the cultivation of the beauty of spiritual life. The basic methods of Mencius' growth are: caring, nourishing heart and nourishing qi.

(C) Xunzi's humanistic thought

Xunzi's theory of talent is based on the theory of evil nature. He believes that human nature has the characteristics of "liking good and evil" and should be "divided into courtesy and righteousness" Xunzi's emphasis on "integrity of personality" is a complete process of seeking goodness. He believes that human nature is evil, so we should combine the principle of benevolence with the principle of statutes to make people become gentlemen. Xunzi put forward the growth way of "noting the wrong customs, accumulating good and becoming a saint" He put great emphasis on the external cultivation of personality, the acquired development of self, and what kind of personality goal the self tends to, which mainly depends on customs and education.

Second, the relationship between Confucian humanistic spirit and modern enterprise management

Modern enterprise humanistic management thought originated and developed in the western interpersonal school. The basic content of humanistic management thought is to put the management of people in the first place. Enterprise management is divided into three elements: people, things and information. The profit goal of an enterprise is achieved by managing people and then controlling material resources. From this perspective, enterprises must be people-oriented, realize their own business purposes and realize their own commercial value. On the other hand, modern people-oriented management takes the study of people's needs and desires as the starting point, and encourages employees to give full play to their enthusiasm and creativity by meeting people's needs, so as to realize the long-term sustainable development of enterprises.

The essence of Confucianism is "benevolence". According to Confucius, management is the process of mastering people's hearts. Later generations often refer to Confucius' benevolence as the way of loyalty and forgiveness. "Loyalty" is the process of fully developing one's benevolence. "I want to stand up and be a man, and I want to realize it" (The Analects of Confucius, Yongye); "Forgiveness" means being able to put yourself in others' shoes, that is, "don't do to others what you don't want others to do to you". Mencius believed that rulers should carry forward the inherent "benevolence" and implement "benevolent government", and rulers can convince people with virtue.

The Confucian theory of ruling the country and leveling the world has established a people-oriented management model, created a management method of "ruling the country by virtue" and established the management goal of enriching the people and protecting the people, which coincides with the people-oriented management thought of modern enterprises and has a strong guiding significance and made great contributions to management theory.

Thirdly, the practical significance of introducing Confucian humanistic spirit into modern enterprise management.

People, an important resource in modern enterprise management, have many problems in integration and management. People are more flexible and complicated than material resources. Introducing Confucian humanism into modern enterprise management will help solve many problems existing in employee management and realize the long-term sustainable development of enterprises.

(A) is conducive to improving employee loyalty

Under the background of high brain drain rate in the labor market, employee loyalty is very important for the survival of enterprises. Many enterprise managers want their employees to be absolutely loyal to the enterprise, but most of them ignore a premise: are enterprise managers equally loyal to employees? If enterprises don't love employees, don't know how to cherish talents and don't know how to be people-oriented, how can they get the loyalty of employees? From this perspective, it is very necessary to bring the concept of "widespread popularity" to the management of the company.

Confucius said, "He who wants to be a man wants to be a man" (The Analects of Confucius Yong Ye). If you want to stand up, start a business and develop, you must help them develop, make progress and push others. Mencius also said: "people who love others will always love others;" People who respect others will always respect others "(Mencius Li Lou)," I am old, I am young "and" Mencius Liang Wang Hui ").

Managers should learn to put themselves in the employee's shoes, think from the employee's point of view, and treat employees with goodwill and goodwill in order to win the recognition and loyalty of employees. The concept of "tolerance wins the masses" will help enterprise managers solve the problem of employee loyalty. From this perspective, it has profound practical significance.

(B) conducive to the enthusiasm of employees.

Mencius put forward "serving people with virtue" and "serving people with virtue, though working without complaining" (Mencius devoted himself to this), which concentrated on expressing his spiritual encouragement thought of emotional investment. From the perspective of human resource management, this sentence contains the ideas of modern flexible management and personality management. One is to help employees solve the difficulties in life and work, and the other is to ensure that employees are given greater initiative to arrange their work independently under the premise of ten thousand tasks, so that employees can "work hard without complaints."

Numerous historical facts have proved that "those who win the hearts of the people win the world." The same is true of the company's management. Satisfying employees' emotional demands at work is helpful to improve employees' enthusiasm, give play to their subjective initiative and improve production efficiency.

(C) is conducive to improving the competitiveness of enterprises

Facing the tide of economic globalization, the competitiveness of enterprises is not only related to the survival and development of an enterprise, but also related to the competitiveness level of a country. In the final analysis, the competition between countries is the competition of talents, which also shows the important role of managing talents and putting people first in an enterprise. Pursuing only the realization of the enterprise's profit target without considering the realization of employees' personal interests will only distract the whole enterprise and eventually face the end of bankruptcy. Only by giving consideration to the realization of employees' personal interests and needs can we truly realize the unity of personal interests and collective interests, which is more conducive to improving the competitiveness of enterprises.

Fourth, the application of people-oriented thought in modern enterprise management.

(A) People-oriented-the winning magic weapon of Haidilao

Customers who have been to Haidilao can't help but admire its thoughtful and considerate service. Their hot pot tastes nothing special, but the service alone can only make many enterprises fall behind. The success of Haidilao hot pot can not be separated from the implementation of people-oriented thought. Whether for customers or employees, its managers have effectively achieved people-oriented.

"Customer is God", Haidilao has always believed in this belief, and in practice, we can see that they have indeed done it. From waiting in line to eating until leaving, they all enjoy their intimate service, and even many customers feel more comfortable than eating at home. While waiting in line, Haidilao prepared manicure, shoeshine and other services for everyone, provided all kinds of drinks and snacks for everyone to enjoy, and played chess and small games with friends while waiting, so that the waiting time was no longer boring and disgusting. When customers eat, employees of Haidilao always greet each other with smiles and provide warm service, providing hot and wet towels for guests, hair bands for female customers with long hair and waterproof bags for friends with mobile phones. They often carry a series of polite greetings in their mouths, such as "Hello, what can I do for you" and "Hello, do you need soup?" Make customers feel warm and comfortable.

Many people don't understand why Haidilao employees are so kind and diligent, and treat every customer as if they are serving their loved ones. The reason behind this lies in the employee welfare of the company. Haidilao Company is not only customer-oriented, but also attaches great importance to employee motivation. Haidilao's employees are basically migrant workers, and their stability is low. In order to retain employees and let them work in Haidilao, Haidilao provides education allowance for employees' children and living allowance for parents who stay at home. Without worries, employees are more willing to serve in good faith, which will bring such high-quality services. In addition, Haidilao also encourages employees to take shares and combine personal interests with the overall interests of the company. Employees, like running their own companies, will certainly do their best. Haidilao always adheres to the people-oriented concept, which is the magic weapon for its scale and market share today.

(B) People-oriented-Mary Kay's "P" and "L" thoughts

In enterprise management, "P" stands for profit and "L" stands for loss. But in the management of Mary Kay, a famous American cosmetics company, "P" stands for people and "L" stands for love. They put forward: "We are a company that values talents".

Its founder Mary Kay put forward the "open door principle". The door of her office is always open to all employees, and you are welcome to put forward valuable opinions that are beneficial to the development of the company at any time. She wants to communicate with people frequently, which shows that the company attaches importance to people. When employees celebrate their birthdays, they can also enjoy an exquisite free dinner. In addition, Mary Kay has a tradition, which is "Secretary Week". In this week's time, all secretaries will get a bunch of flowers and a coffee cup, which is light and affectionate enough to show the company's concern for employees. Mary Kay's achievements are closely related to the intimate relationship between people and the harmonious team atmosphere.

(C) People-oriented-the core of Haier's innovation management

CEO is a film based on Zhang Ruimin, CEO of Haier. The film tells how Haier developed from a small factory on the verge of bankruptcy to today's scale. This is a miracle of the business community in China. People-oriented is the soul of Haier's excellent corporate culture. Zhang Ruimin always believed in the saying, "He who has a common desire wins". Only when the interests of employees are consistent with the overall interests of enterprises can we win the victory of enterprise management.

Haier emphasizes "three hearts" when being a manager. First of all, we should enthusiastically solve our suffering. Haier company organized a rescue team in the form of self-help and mutual rescue, and each employee had a troubleshooting book. When employees are in danger of difficulties, the rescue team will help them at the first time. Secondly, we should sincerely criticize mistakes. At the monthly assessment meeting of middle-level cadres, the system of red and yellow cards will be implemented, and outstanding achievements will be praised, and cadres who have made mistakes will be sincerely criticized and corrected to guide them to correct their mistakes. Finally, do ideological work with care. Only when enterprises know what employees think can they know how to meet the needs of employees and let them serve the enterprise better. Haier's kindness to employees is reflected in many daily work systems.

Haier's "three hearts" management model and the implementation of "solving problems" fully embody its "people-oriented" management concept and are typical manifestations of Confucian culture.

Verb (abbreviation of verb) conclusion

With the rapid development of economy, enterprises want to occupy a place in the fierce competition wave, so they must put the people-oriented idea into the management of enterprises. "Those who gain the Tao help more, those who lose the Tao help less" ("Mencius is ugly in the sun"), and those who win the hearts of the people win the world. This requires managers of enterprises to always pay attention to people-oriented texts, meet employees' emotional and interest demands, actively provide material and spiritual attention and care for employees, and seek benefits for employees and the development of their own enterprises. People-oriented can make employees better serve the enterprise, which is conducive to the realization of the profit target of the enterprise and promote the sustainable development of the enterprise.

Expansion: the main content of Confucianism

1. 1 "People-oriented" is the foundation of Confucianism.

Confucianism believes that "the nature of heaven and earth is precious", that man is in a special position in the center of the universe, that man is the most precious existence in the universe, and that man is the spirit of all things. Among heaven, earth and people, people are the center and in the most important position. "Everything is born, only people are precious, and I am a human being, which fully affirms the significance of human existence in the real world."

Confucianism believes that the reason why people are in the center of the universe is fundamentally different from all things lies in the morality of benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom and trust. "Book of Rites" says: "The old friend is also the heart of heaven and earth, and the end of the five elements is also the one who eats while living, and sounds and colors." This view fully shows that man is above all things in the universe and is the most precious social existence in the universe, which opens the excellent tradition of humanistic spirit in China culture.

1.2 "Benevolence" is the core value of Confucianism

"Goodness" is the core value of Confucianism. The "benevolence" here refers to the "benevolence" of "the benevolent loves others", not other abstract love. When Confucius explained the basic meaning of benevolence, he once said: "A gentleman's affairs are based on this and born of Tao. Filial piety is also the foundation of benevolence! " It means that children should respect and obey their parents and elders, brothers should obey their brothers, parents should be kind to their daughters, and brothers should love their brothers. It is believed that filial piety is the starting point of benevolence, and on this basis, the viewpoints of "the benevolent loves others" and "the benevolent loves others" are put forward, that is, everyone should be treated with a friendly attitude towards his family, be friendly, tolerant and helpful, "don't do to others what you don't want them to do to you" and put yourself in others' shoes.

1.3 Moral education is the core of Confucianism.

Confucianism attaches great importance to education and puts moral education in the first place. Confucius put forward that "disciples are filial when they enter, and filial when they leave." They sincerely believe that they love the public and are close to the public. I have spare capacity to study literature. " The Analects of Confucius holds that the most important thing in education is to cultivate students' moral qualities needed by society, so that they can become people who are filial to their parents, love their teachers, be cautious, pay attention to credit, care about the public extensively and be close to kindness. After all this, if you still have extra energy, then go and learn cultural knowledge. Confucius believes that we should educate people with morality, guide them with morality, make them filial, loyal, upright, resolute, brave, self-reliant, enterprising, hardworking, frugal and humble, emphasize "taking morality as benevolence", pay attention to cultivating people's noble morality and kindness, and make them learn how to be human and become "benevolent people".

Today, we put moral education into the moral education program, which is of course the purpose of our school education. It is of great significance to learn from Confucian moral education thought to strengthen and improve school moral education.

2 Confucianism is an effective carrier of moral education in colleges and universities

For the vast number of higher education workers, what kind of way to carry out moral education in colleges and universities is a top priority. It is a useful and effective attempt to make the past serve the present Confucian educational ideas such as "people-oriented" and "benevolence" should become effective carriers of moral education in colleges and universities, and run through the whole process of moral education in colleges and universities.

2. 1 Confucianism is of positive significance for college students to establish a correct outlook on life.

The Confucian outlook on life starts from the premise of having a positive attitude towards people's realistic value, and advocates that people should actively face the real world and advocate the attitude of facing life and society, striving hard and making progress. Educating contemporary college students with the positive attitude and values of Confucianism can improve their life consciousness, broaden their spiritual space, urge them to forge ahead and form a positive and healthy outlook on life.

2.2 Confucianism advocates seeking truth from facts, which is of positive significance in guiding college students to establish correct values.

Virtue, meritorious service, and making a statement are the values advocated by Confucianism. "Lide" is to restrain selfish desires, make human nature sublimate constantly, maintain the perfection of personality, and establish the values of making contributions to society. "Meritorious service" means externalizing the values established by Lide into practical social effects, that is, making due contributions to society in social practice. Together with the sentence, it is called "Three Immortals". As an internal driving force, the values of "Three Immortals" use the internal control function and self-discipline function of morality to adjust people's thoughts and behaviors to a common goal, making many people become politicians, strategists, thinkers and scientists in the history of China and making outstanding contributions to human civilization. Educate college students to set up positive values with Confucian culture such as "gentleman's righteousness, villain's benefit", and take caring for the collective, caring for others, being sincere and trustworthy, being willing to contribute and observing social morality as the focus of education.

2.3 Confucianism advocates loving the world, serving the country and forgetting myself, which is of positive significance to strengthening patriotism education for college students.

Confucianism believes that the relationship between man and society includes the relationship between individual and collective, and the relationship between individual and state. The essence of this "group of me" relationship is the relationship between "public" and "private" Confucianism believes that the interests of the country, the nation and the people should be put in the first place, and that "the world is public" can be realized by everyone's "being good at the world". "Every man is responsible for the rise and fall of the world." In terms of justice and benefit, what conforms to the public interest is called "righteousness" and what harms the public interest is called "non-righteousness". When there is a contradiction between justice and benefit, they do not hesitate to "sacrifice their lives for justice". Between individuals and society, there is a relationship between * * * life * * glory and * * * development.

3 Confucianism into the exploration of moral education in colleges and universities

At present, China implements the policy of "ruling the country by virtue", regards moral construction as the general plan of governing the country, and puts forward that "ruling the country by virtue" and "ruling the country by law" simultaneously, which plays a very important role in "ruling the country by virtue" as a school education. Under the premise of "ruling the country by virtue", schools should govern the school by virtue, cultivate themselves by virtue and educate people by virtue. Inheriting and carrying forward the excellent tradition of Confucianism is an effective means to strengthen moral education in colleges and universities.

3. 1 Establish a student-oriented moral education concept

Confucianism advocates "people-oriented" and emphasizes the center and core position of people. Modern moral education should learn from this idea, change the traditional moral education mode and standardize students' ideological and behavioral deviation, establish a new concept of "student-oriented" moral education, pay attention to students' own dignity and personality, and attach importance to the role of emotional factors. First, we should embody this "people-oriented" thought in caring, helping, respecting and encouraging students in their daily life and study, accurately grasp the ideological trends of students, and actively guide students to develop actively and healthily. Second, give full play to students' subjective consciousness, make students become the protagonists of moral education teaching activities, meet their psychological needs of self-realization, and enhance their sense of value and accomplishment.

3.2 The school implements the rule of virtue.

"The moral concept, moral value, moral judgment and moral behavior of any nation are based on a specific national culture. If you leave the national cultural background, moral education is likely to become an empty preaching. " Moral education in schools must be based on the long-standing China culture, and only the moral education with culture as the carrier can take root in students' hearts for a long time. Through the infiltration of Confucian positive ideology and culture, it will have a long-term impact on students' lives and have positive significance for their temperament, demeanor and personality.

On the one hand, schools carry out moral education in different forms to help students develop good behavior habits and lay a good professional ethics. On the other hand, we should pay attention to the cultivation of teachers' moral quality, form a unique cultural atmosphere of moral education, and create good conditions for the individual and group development of teachers and students in colleges and universities.

References:

1, from Liezi: Confucius visited Mount Tai, saw days of our lives, walked in the wild, deer and fur tied the rope, drummed. Confucius asked, "Sir, why are you so happy?" Yes, "I had a good time. Man is the most valuable of all things raised by heaven. For me, being a person is a pleasure. " Notes on Liezi by Shanghai Ancient Books Publishing House

2. "University": "The way of a university is to be well-known and close to the people, and stop at perfection." See China's Classics, China Drama Publishing House.

3. Chen Deshu's column on philosophy and national studies "Confucian rule of virtue is the highest expression of ancient political civilization"

4.Sina.com。 On the Importance of College Students' Outlook on Life Education

5. Li De, Gong Li and Li Yan, called "Three Immortals" in ancient times, came from Zuo Zhuan's Twenty-four Years of Xianggong. See the Spring and Autumn Annals, page 380, published by Shanghai Ancient Books Publishing House 1987.

Development: Confucianism and Corporate Culture

For thousands of years, the cultural precipitation of the Chinese nation has shown its profound connotation and connotation, and cultural giants have led mankind to modern civilization with their philosophical meditation. Various authoritative thoughts have sprung up like mushrooms after rain, among which the thoughts of Confucian school are especially in line with the taste of modern economic development, and the two can be described as complementary and echoing each other from afar. Confucian ideology contains rich and exquisite management wisdom. The quips and proverbs, no matter how many vicissitudes and great changes they have undergone, are still colorful, inspiring future generations and having a far-reaching impact on our current corporate culture construction.

Confucian humanistic thought of "people-oriented" is widely used in the construction of corporate culture. His thoughts penetrated into all levels of the enterprise, laid the foundation for development, and more importantly, penetrated into the hearts of the people, making employees of the enterprise the backbone of enterprise progress and development. Then promote various more specific and popular goals and forms such as "team spirit", "mutual assistance and mutual benefit" and "encouraging progress". The goal of modern enterprise development requires every employee to pursue Excellence in everything, to be strict with himself with better standards, and to strive for perfection in moral cultivation, behavior, manners and professional knowledge, so as to promote the first-class performance and level of enterprise development. This requirement is deeply related to the theme of modern enterprises' pursuit, realization and employee-oriented. Under the influence of Confucianism, it is more specific and better.

The formation and development of corporate culture can not be separated from the further extension of Confucianism, and the two are compatible. With the continuous growth of modern enterprises, this cooperative relationship has become the soul of enterprises, shaped the characteristic corporate culture, and more comprehensively alluded to the people-oriented management concept and thought.

The competition of modern enterprises has developed to a new stage and level, from unipolar to multipolar, from regional to global. Information diversification and technological innovation, in this case, Confucianism will enlighten people to cope with the rapid development of economy and society. Among them, "Renyi" advocates the concept of people-oriented management. Confucius said, "The benevolent is benevolent", "The benevolent loves others", "My wife wants to make a career and reach people", Mozi said, "People are expensive", and she also said, "The weather is not as good as the geographical position, and the geographical position is not as good as people." This thought is a humanistic thought. Through the construction of corporate culture and the coordination of interpersonal relationships, corporate culture has become the soul of enterprises. The humanization and moralization of enterprises, corporate culture and Confucianism are indispensable. Undoubtedly, the development of modern enterprises cannot be separated from the construction of corporate culture. Behind it comes a part of Confucianism, which is integrated and infiltrated with each other. Throughout history, Confucianism is inseparable from the economic, political and military fields.

The development of an enterprise is bound to be dominated by its inner spirit, and its core spirit in the cultural field must be diligence, innovation, popularization and humanization in line with public opinion, which also covers moralization. These aspects make corporate culture priceless, and will also show that its development direction is needed by the times, keeping up with the pace of economic development, thus becoming a strong backing for corporate development in the face of economic diversification, science and technology, and informationization.