Discuss the Challenges and Difference Faced by Managers of Chinese and American Employees Working Together, and the Solutions for the Management.

Introduction

Motivating employees is a demand job, which requires mangers to know what motivates employees. In other words, it is essential for mangers to understand the motivation perception of employees. This essay focus on the difference of employees’ motivation perception in both Chinese and American enterprises and attempts to expound these differences from cross-cultural perspective.

How to motivate employee in working and to reach the target is always a problem facing human resources and mangers in enterprises. With the development of economy, Chinese enterprises borrow more managing and motivating concepts from the west. But these concepts may not be universal and they probably do not guarantee ideal motivating outcome. The most concepts used in west managing filed may not be applicable in China because the difference in employee’s perception, belief, value and job needs.

First, based on cultural dimensions and motivation theories, after comparing the culture differences between China and USA, the differs of Chinese and American employees are listed below. By using the cultural theory and motivating theory to find the needs of Chinese and American employees, and select a solution to satisfy their needs, keep motivation of employees in a appropriate position and solve the problems may have when they are working together.

Definition of culture

Culture is a word that people often mentioned in daily life, but in the cause of achieving different objectives, A lot of writers give culture different definitions. And what is more, when time time goes by, the meaning of culture has changed in some way. From the view about that, culture is a vocabulary which hard to define. There are some different culture’s definition from different writers below.

Thousands of years ago, our ancestors realized that culture differences exist. About two thousand five hundred years...