Chapter 9. Building a Local Team in China

In This Chapter

  • Understanding employers’ and employees’ legal rights and obligations

  • Preventing and fixing dysfunctional culture

  • Recruiting office workers

  • Retaining employees in a hot market

  • Practicing hands-on management

You have to walk a lot of tightropes with personnel matters in China. Because of the small number of qualified candidates, you need to screen potential hires hard but do a great job selling them on your company at the same time. Because of cultural issues, you have to make sure employees respect you as the boss without squelching free thinking. You ultimately have to develop your own sense of how to balance, but this chapter can help you get there a lot sooner.

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