Business Leadership Development in China

<p>This book argues that China’s businesses and hence China’s future economic development face a huge crisis in that there is a considerable leadership gap in China with a shortage of competent business leaders at a time when new leadership skills are required urgently as China’s businesses evolve rapidly and engage ever more with the global economy. Moreover the book argues training is an undervalued and often marginalised activity in Chinese companies. The book outlines the nature of this problem and goes on to demonstrate that there is a new breed of manager emerging in China aware of the need to upgrade management skills moving away from skills appropriate in traditional industrial firms and emphasising more flexibility positive engagement with workers and competence in the market economy. The book includes an evaluation of different management approaches in China reports on extensive original research including interviews with practising managers and sets out how self-development in widespread deep and important.</p>