Management in China
Title of the Course： Management in China
Course Teacher： Liu Qiang
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Language：English
Students：
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Extracurricular class hours：
Prerequisite：
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1. Profile and Contact way of the Teachers
LIU QIANG is PhD, Associate Professor in Institute of Technological Economics,
Department of Business Management, School of Economics and Management at Tongji
University. Research interests are Innovation, Management in China.
Tel: 13671898889
Email: [email protected]
2. Course Description
“Management in China (MIC)” is an undergraduate course based the idea and
perspective of strategies and principles of Chinese, starting from lectures on the
organizational behavior and Chinese classical management philosophy. This course
concerns Chinese-style management company cases including: Alibaba, Haier, Huawei,
Lenovo, and Xiaomi to give students classic basic ideal and specific Chinese
management practice. In addition, with problems given by cases, student would use
general management ability to solve them.
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3. Course Objectives and Requirements
1. Course Objectives： This course exposes undergraduates to essential knowledge,
primary principles and research methods in certain management scenarios to enable
them to understand basic Chinese management principles. And they get chances to
have some insight into the features of Chinese resource management theories and
practices. In addition, this course aims to make international students understand and
make right decisions in Chinese market with learnt principles in this class. That would
help the learners to improve their ability to analyze and solve practical problems arising
in Chinese organizations.
2. Requirements： With Management in China as prerequisites, international students
are expected to get prepared for lectures, finish and submit assignments as required.
4. Course Arrangement
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Course
Management in China
name
unit
Credit
Total Credit Hours
Preparation
Contents
hours
36
of class
Cases
and reading materials
Unit One：Introduction to Management in China
1. Introduction of course structure
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4
2. Basic ideal of the organizational behavior
Model of organizational behavior
3. Explanations of basic administrative capacity
1.
4. Trend and strategy of Chinese management
Unit Two：Art of War
2
4
1.
Art of War video
1. History of Art of War
2.
Avoid the solid and
2. Three management principles in Art of War
strike the weak(Short
3. Principles of management practices
passage)
1. eBay China(Slide-in)
Unit Three：Management in Haier
3
4
1.
Haier Video
1. Introduction of Haier
2.
OEC Video
2. Corporate culture and core values
3.
Reading: Haier Hefei
3. OEC management
Electronics Co.
3
1. Haier: Taking a Chinese
Company Global
1.
Unit Four：Alibaba
4
4
（Jack Ma）
1. Introduction of Alibaba
2.
2. Alibaba strucure
Unit Five：Huawei
1.
1. Introduction of Huawei and Ceo Ren Zhenfei
6
1.
Buyers and Suppliers
Together
Ren Zhengfei Video
2. Case:Huawei silent
2. Experiences of Huawei in global market
1. Huawei silent Chinese
Chinese telecom
3. Case learning from Huawei
The Sky Cat: A Rocky
Road Toward Bringing
Double 11 promotion
news
3. Case discussion
5
Speech of Jack Ma
telecom multinational
multinational
Unit Six：Lenovo
1. Introduction
6
6
3.
2. Cyclical strategy
Introduction Video
4. Organizational
3. Financial strategy
1.
Lenovo: Building a
Global Brand
strategy
4. Relationship of partners
Unit Seven：Xiaomi
1. Introduction
7
4
1.
2. Business model of xiaomi
Speech video from
Hugo Barra
3. Supply Chain control
2. MI Phone in India
4
1. Fan-centric social
media: The Xiaomi
phenomenon in China
Unit Eight：The management of Tang Dynasty
1. Heyday of Tang Dynasty
2. Examination System of Tang
1.
3. Supervision system of Tang
8
4
Da Minggong Video
clips
4. Accepting attitude to criticism
2. Reign of Zhenguan
Video
1. Learn in
criticism-Harvard
Business Review
Unit Nine : Haidiliao Hotpot
1. Introduction
1.
2. Business model of Haidilao
Vedio of Haidilao
1. The Haidilao
Company
3. The management characteristics of Haidilao
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5. Teaching Methods
Lectures、Discussions、Video、Case Analysis, etc.
6. Learning Outcomes Expected
Category
Knowledge
Intellectual
abilities
learned
Practical
skills learned
Learning Outcomes
1.
Know and understand the basic information of Chinese companies.
2.
Comprehend the Chinese characteristics of companies’ business model
3.
Familiar with the Chinese management principles
4.
Familiar with performance evaluation process in Chinese companies, and
master main methods of the performance evaluation
5.
Understand classic Chinese companies’ structure
6.
Know the outstanding Chinese companies’ decision-making
7.
Understand the Chinese classical management principles
1.
2.
4.
Have the ability to set human resource planning strategy
Have the ability to be engaged in strategic decision meet the global
challenges
Have the ability of combining with science management ideas and
Chinese classic philosophy in the companies.
Have the abilities to fit the Chinese management practice
1.
The skills of human resources supply and demand
2.
The skills of controlling supply chain
3.
The skills of controlling consumers' bargaining power
4.
The skills of using performance evaluation methods in actual organization
5.
The skills of individuation of Chinese management practice
6.
The skills of using career planning methods for oneself and employees
3.
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Personal
competences
and
characters
Cultivated
1.
The competence of thinking questions by using globalization view and the
idea of sustainable development
2.
The management competence of being good at planning, organization
and communication
3.
The competence of critical acceptation of knowledge and innovative
4.
The competence of comparing of cultural differences
5.
The competence of providing and summary the business model
6.
The competence of strategic decision
7.
The competence of cooperation
7. Performance Evaluation: Means & Ratio
Evaluation
Ratio
Means
（%）
Team and
25
individual
Link with learning outcomes expected
Focusing on case analysis, evaluate the abilities to analyses
and solve the practical problems
assignments
Attendance and
25
Engagement
Exam
50
Evaluate the abilities of team participation and effective
communication
Emphasis on the evaluating the degree of mastering the
Chinese management principles, and Chinese resource
management theories
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8.Textbook，References and Reading Materials
1)
Textbook
2)
Online resources
[1] http://www.lib.tongji.edu.cn/
[2] http://www. wikipedia.org /
[3] http://hbsp.harvard.edu/
[4] http://www.cnki.cn/
[5] http://www. haier.com
[6] www.alibaba.com
[7] www.xiaomi.com
3)
Periodicals and Magazines
[1]China Human Resource Development
[2] China Talent
[3] Management World
[4]Management Review
[5] Harvard Business Review
9. Cases
[1] eBay China vs Taobao
[2] Haier: Taking a Chinese Company Global
[3] The Sky Cat: A Rocky Road toward Bringing Buyers and Suppliers together
[4] Huawei silent Chinese telecom multinational
[5] Lenovo: Building a Global Brand
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[6] Fan-centric social media: The Xiaomi phenomenon in China
[7] Learn in criticism
[8] The Haidilao Company
10. Assignment Requirements
Select the typical cases in your work by yourself, combine with the Chinese management
principles and knowledge related, describe, analyses and evaluate problems existed, and put
forward some solutions and alternatives.
Requirements
1) Collect this case background information and discuss about the problems above
2) Form the groups，each group consists of 6-8 students.
3) Do the slides and presentation in the class, each group need to submit slides and the
WORD copy (one copy of the electronic version and paper version)
4) Each group should prepare before class carefully, please.
The criteria of assignment evaluation (100 points)
1)
Whether the case material collection is completed or not
20 points
2)
Whether the case analysis is system in-depth or not
25 points
3)
Whether the insights is linked with work practice closely or not
25 points
4)
Participation
20 points
5)
Whether the slides and document is made seriously and beautiful
of group members
in case discussion
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10 points
Appendices::
1. The course Slides
2. Case material
3. Other teaching material (such as reading materials, the articles)
4. Study guide
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