On Three Characteristics of the Chinese Style Management Held by Zeng Shiqiang

Conclusion 
This paper has analyzed and discussed the three characteristics of the Chinese style management held 
by Professor Zeng Shiqiang. Among other management principles, Prof. Zeng argues that the 
Chinese style management has three major characteristics: people oriented, like-minded people 
working together, making reasoning adjustments in order to adapt to constantly changing 
circumstances, with people as the key to the success of the administration. These three characteristics 
make great contribution for the success of the Chinese style management. 
Through the detailed analysis and illustrations, it can be found that Chinese style management is in 
fact people are the key to the success of the administration. The most important principle of Chinese 
style management is people-oriented, with the help of the two other principles: having like-minded 
people working together and making reasonable adjustments according to the constantly changing 
circumstances. All these three principles above are always taking “people” as the center, which helps 
account for the fact that people are always superior in the Chinese management soil. 
Second, like-minded people cherishing the same ideals, following the same path and working 
together for the common goal constitute the foundation for an organization to make a reasonable 
reaction to the ever-changing situations, which constitute a kind of rational and healthy 
organizational culture. Only by attaching great importance on ethics and building up a kind of 
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consensus, can people find out a balancing point of the reasonable reaction, when encountering 
unexpected changes. The story of The Peach Garden Brotherhood of Liu Bei, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei 
helps explain what the best organization pattern is, whose organization culture cultivated by three of 
them attracted many talents of the time to join in their cause, founding Shu Han, which can be looked 
upon as the rich fruit borne by the like-minded people working together. It is inevitable that people’s 
individuality can create differences, the influential and powerful policy-maker in the organization is 
essential in having the reasonable policy successfully made and smoothly implemented. Prof. Zeng 
makes some practical suggestions which are of great help and significance in having the conflicts 
kept in a considerable degree, and preventing small problems turning to large ones. 
Third, Prof. Zeng regards the reasonable change according to constantly changing situation as the 
highest wisdom of Chinese management, but in the Chinese style management every change must be 
based upon reasoning rather than upon passion or arbitrariness. What’s more, both “changing” and 
“stabilization” exists simultaneously in a complementary manner, which entirely matches the 
“golden mean”. There is no fixed model, as long as changing is rational, whatever type of change is 
acceptable for the Chinese. 
The three major characteristics of the Chinese style management held by Professor Zeng Shiqiang 
are also reflected the philosophy of inter-subjectivity, which can also be used in other fields such as 
the educational activity, and help us have a better understanding of modern inter-subjectivity 
education, namely the healthy interaction between teachers and students, which is considered to 
possess the same philosophical concept with Zeng’s management principle through its two-way or 
multi-directional interaction between teachers and students.