'Young Chinese people disappointed with German companies'
According to a study, young Chinese managers are unsatisfied with the career opportunities in international companies in their home country. "The promotion expectations of highly qualified Chinese employees are restricted by flat hierarchies and poor chances of permanent employment with which Western companies flexibly react to the needs of the globalised market", the sociologist Junchen Yan from Bielefeld explains. He will present the results of the study at the 32nd German Oriental Studies Conference (Deutscher Orientalistentag, DOT) in Münster in September. Owing to decreased hierarchy levels and career opportunities companies have to deal with employees who resign suddenly. "This explains why multinational companies increasingly complain about unmotivated employees and the loss of image which companies recently suffered in China according to surveys."