Understanding of western management thought

China has a history of 5,000 years of civilization and a history of 2,000 years of writing, which has left us rich written materials. In the traditional culture of China, although there are no comprehensive and self-contained books on leadership, many practical leadership philosophies have been created. These leadership philosophies are mainly embodied in the management of the country, governments at all levels, the army, families, non-governmental organizations, and even illegal organizations (such as rebel organizations fighting in the mountains); In these management practices, we can still sort out a clear vein.

1. Comparison of Chinese and Western management thoughts The traditional culture of China is completely different from the western culture and has its own system. In order to explain our point of view more clearly, we use the method of comparison between China and the West to illustrate the characteristics of management thought.

Western culture believes in the theory of evil nature, that is, most people are evil in nature; Although people who sacrifice their own interests for public welfare also exist in the crowd, such people seem to be very few, and their behavior cannot be generalized and advocated as a common phenomenon in the crowd. The ancient culture of China highly praised the theory of "goodness of human nature" and believed that "goodness of human nature is at the beginning of life", and most people are inherently good; A few scum whose nature cannot be transformed, although inevitably integrated into the crowd, do not represent the majority. These two different cultures gave birth to two completely different management ideas, China and the West. Based on the understanding that human nature is evil, that is, most people seek personal gain for themselves; And as long as the external environment allows, it will do bad things that are beneficial to itself and not conducive to the public. Therefore, the main principle of modern western management thought is that people can't do bad things.

Because people think that human nature is good, that is, the nature of most people is good; People do bad things because some bad factors cover up people's good nature. Therefore, the main principle of China's ancient management thought is to try to get rid of these bad factors.

We compared China's ancient management thought with western modern management thought. Although they don't seem to match in time, because these two ideas are the core of the distinctive management model between China and the West, only by studying these two ideas can we see the meridians of Chinese and Western management more comprehensively. Therefore, in order to facilitate the study, the mismatch between age and time is ignored here.

Second, the comparison of Chinese and Western management methods

(1) western management means with restriction as the core In order to achieve the management goal of "making people unable to do bad things", the main means adopted by western management is to establish a mechanism of mutual restriction, that is, the main means of modern western management is restriction. For example, when Franklin, the "father of the Constitution" of the United States, drafted the Constitution of the United States, he once put forward the view that the design of American state power institutions is a hypothesis-unfortunately, a "villain" is elected president; In such an organization, the president can't or can't do bad things. Although it is unlikely that the "wicked" will be elected president, the design of the American state power institutions