China Staff articles from September 2003

China Staff archives from September 2003

Awaken the manager within! A case study of planned management transition in China.(Case Study)
September 1, 2003... High-potential managers in China often struggle to make the transition to senior management because of inadequate support and unrealistic expectations. In this article, Fabienne Bressot of Haarmann Hemmelrath Management Consultants presents a...

Implementing a balanced scorecard in China: steps for success: in the second article of their two-part series, Irv Beiman and Yongling Sun of e-Gate Consulting Shanghai outline the steps necessary to successfully implement the balanced scorecard methodology in China.(Managing Your PRC Workforce)
September 1, 2003... In last month's issue of China STAFF, we introduced the concept of the balanced scorecard (BSC) and examined how it can be applied to organisations in China. This month, we look at some of the critical factors that organisations in China will...

Banking on a transparent approach to a life-threatening crisis: in recent months, China Staff has been profiling how some of the region's leading organisations dealt with the SARS crisis of 2003. This month, Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) comes under the microscope.(Severe acute respiratory syndrome, HSBC Holdings PLC)
September 1, 2003... It is often said that a crisis does not build character, it reveals character. The recent SARS crisis certainly revealed a lot about the character and culture of HSBC, one of the world's leading financial institutions. The loyalty and...

New part-time employment provisions offer PRC employers more flexibility in workforce planning: many employers in China are increasingly using part-time employees as a way to make their workforce more flexible. Lisa Luo of Minter Ellison Lawyers outlines some of the recent legislative developments regarding the employment of part-time staff in the PRC.(Legal Update)
September 1, 2003... As China moves further towards a market economy, serious labour issues will continue to cause problems. The central and local governments have been trying to reduce unemployment by adopting various policies of encouraging part-time employment....

When is an employer liable for stress at work? Sophia Man from Johnson Stokes & Master looks at recent developments in the UK that may give some guidance to Hong Kong employers.(Legal Briefing)
September 1, 2003... The courts in the UK has given some guidance on the circumstances in which an employer may be liable for an employee's psychiatric illness brought on by stress at work. These recent decisions should be watched closely by employers in Hong Kong....

1000 new vacancies per day being created: new Financial Secretary.(Hong Kong News)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... Job-hunters facing the highest unemployment rate in Hong Kong's history should be happy to hear that every day almost 1,000 new vacancies have been appearing, according to Financial Secretary Henry Tang. Speaking after chairing his first...

Incidence of workplace accidents on the decrease.(Hong Kong News)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... Statistics released recently by the SAR goverment showed the accident toll and accident rates per 1,000 workers dropped by 32% and 25%, respectively, last year compared with those for 2001. Permanent Secretary for Economic Development &...

Scheme to import mainland labour back on the agenda.(Hong Kong News)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... Hong Kong Secretary for Economic Development and Labour, Stephen Ip, has said it is time for the SAR to again consider a scheme for importing workers from the mainland, according to a South China Morning Post report. The proposal, which first...

Giant US preretailer under pressure to unionise its China operations.(China News)(Wal-Mart Store Inc.)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... The All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU) says Wal-Mart Store Inc., the world's biggest retailer, has not set up trade unions in any of its branches in China, leaving workers without protection of their legal rights, according to a...

Legal protection for disabled employees on the way.(China News)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... The Chinese government is working towards legislative protection for the countrys disabled employees, according to the Chairman of China's peak disabled persons' body. The government recently pledged continuous efforts to help the...

Shanghai's IT professionals no longer "hot property".(China News)(Information technology services industry)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... The IT industry is no longer hot property in the local labor market, with the low-end employees in the IT industry earning an average of Rmb2,000 a month, according to the statistics from the local Shanghai labor market in the first seven...