The career supplement of the Wall Street Journal (only subscribers) wonders where China gets its managers from. They point at a company that went to India:
For roughly the same salary his previous Chinese quality-assurance manager received, Mr. Stepanek recruited 32-year-old Indian engineer Sandeep Sharma, who speaks English and has about a decade of experience.That brings back fine memories of a similar strategy by Unilever, maybe half a decade ago. The company then also hoped to copy its success in India on its lagging operation in China. Maybe you have not heard from that initiative: it failed, since Indian managers had a hard time to get accepted in China, where local staff preferred Western managers for reasons of status. It cause a very unhappy time for a bunch of Indian managers, who also had no clue about the Chinese market, undermining another possible asset they were assumed to have.
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But this time it was a different story, for some reasons this quality manager was away from this company and company wanted him to recall to China. I believe it all depends on how quick anyone understands and adopts chinese culture. Although I am agreed that western managers gets more warm welcome than Indians.
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