Secretary Theory and Practice, No.5, 2006
Confucian culture and socialist harmonious society
On the Construction of Enterprise Culture with Excellent Adaptability
Sui fujun
The foundation of a harmonious socialist society is the coordinated development of socialist market economy, socialist democracy and socialist spiritual civilization. Corporate culture is an important part of building a harmonious socialist society. Whether you realize it or not, corporate culture has a potential impact on politics, economy, society and life all the time and plays an important role. Corporate culture comes from Confucian culture. This paper expounds the basic connotation and importance of corporate culture, as well as the emergence, development and influence of Confucian culture, trying to make people know and understand, and then attach importance to corporate culture construction. Let people make it clear that only by inheriting and carrying forward the excellent traditional culture of the Chinese nation and absorbing and drawing lessons from the advanced culture of mankind can we establish an excellent corporate culture suitable for a harmonious socialist society and realize the goal of rejuvenating enterprises, enriching the people and strengthening the country.
First, the establishment of a harmonious socialist society to adapt to the basic connotation of excellent corporate culture
Culture, in a broad sense, is the sum of material and spiritual productivity and material and spiritual creation obtained by human beings in the process of social practice. Including all forms of social ideology, such as natural science, technical science and social ideology. As a historical phenomenon, the development of culture has historical inheritance; As a social ideology, culture is a reflection of certain social politics and economy, and at the same time it has a great influence on certain social politics and economy.
Corporate culture refers to the sum of * * * common consciousness, values, professional ethics, codes of conduct and standards that are formed through social practice under certain social and economic conditions and followed by all members. It is a unique cultural management model with values as the core formed by enterprises or organizations in their own development process.
Enterprise culture is a cultural concept, cultural form and behavior pattern with enterprise characteristics formed in the process of material production under certain social and historical conditions, as well as the corresponding system and organizational structure, which embodies the values, business philosophy, code of conduct, common beliefs and cohesion of enterprises and their members. Enterprise culture is the concrete embodiment of national culture, which is subordinate to and determined by national culture. As a new social phenomenon, corporate culture has been recognized and valued by people, and is becoming an important symbol of enterprise reform, economic development and social progress.
Corporate culture theory absorbs the essence of behavioral science, public relations, decision science, management, philosophy, ethics and economics, and its main content is based on rationality and scientific practice, including corporate philosophy, corporate values, corporate spirit, corporate ethics, corporate goals, corporate systems, corporate innovation, corporate image, corporate environment and corporate cultural activities.
The essence of corporate culture is to adhere to people-oriented management. That is to say, it is a kind of enterprise management thought with people as the center, cultural guidance as the means and stimulating employees' conscious behavior as the purpose. The fundamental task of corporate culture is to value, trust, understand, mobilize, guide, educate, train and shape people. The dialectics of corporate culture comes from and contributes to society. Corporate culture, like an invisible hand, often plays an important guiding role in the management of enterprises consciously or unconsciously.
Second, the importance of establishing an excellent corporate culture that is compatible with a harmonious socialist society.
With the rapid improvement of economic marketization, structural contradictions in economic development have become increasingly prominent. Especially with the expansion of business scope, it is very important to establish and improve corporate culture. In the past, some of our enterprises, especially some large enterprise groups, have been exploring new ways to build corporate culture for many years. It can be said that some progress has been made and some models have been created, but it is not a real corporate culture. Let's talk about the importance of corporate culture, that is, the importance of building an excellent corporate culture that is compatible with a harmonious socialist society. After research, we think it mainly includes the following aspects.
The rapid development of science and technology has brought a profound revolution to the way of thinking, working and living of human beings. The emergence of new "knowledge entrepreneurs" and "knowledge workers" shows the special position, important role and great value of corporate culture in enterprises.
-The intensification of economic globalization and the super competition in the world economy will be a severe test of the business philosophy, values, ideology and morality, system construction and code of conduct of enterprises. Enterprises that want to survive and make a difference in economic globalization will find it difficult to occupy a place in the world market without excellent corporate culture.
-enterprise competition is embodied in product competition, and behind product competition is actually a contest of corporate culture. The entity of the enterprise culture competition is the high-quality employees of the enterprise, which comes from the relatively perfect enterprise employment mechanism and good enterprise employment environment. The development of enterprises can not be separated from corporate culture. Establishing excellent corporate culture is the fundamental guarantee to create a harmonious corporate atmosphere and excellent corporate environment, so that enterprises can develop steadily and healthily in the face of the opportunities and challenges of market economy globalization.
-Corporate culture constitutes a social and economic organization. Successful enterprises are always closely linked with successful corporate culture, and excellent enterprises have excellent corporate culture. Although the nature, foundation, present situation and environment of enterprises in different regions are different, the problems and dilemmas in the development of enterprises and the ways to find a way out and solve them seem to be the same, that is, to establish excellent corporate culture.
-With the complete establishment of China's market economy status, enterprise reform has entered a critical period. In the face of opportunities and challenges, whether enterprises can quickly change their concepts and mechanisms depends on corporate culture. Only by creating a good corporate culture environment can we adapt to the new situation of building a harmonious socialist society.
Third, the source of corporate culture is Confucian culture, which is unified with the construction of a harmonious socialist society.
Enterprise culture is the concrete embodiment of national culture and is determined by national culture. The Chinese nation has a history of 5,000 years of civilization and excellent national culture, among which Confucianism is the most representative. Confucian culture not only played an important role in the development history of the Chinese nation, but also had a great influence on politics, economy, culture and society in many countries and regions in the world. In Japan, many entrepreneurs regard The Analects of Confucius as the "Bible" of industrial and commercial enterprises, and regard its thoughts as the fundamental policy of enterprise management. Matsushita Electric Co., Ltd. still takes Confucian classics as the teaching material of business ethics course in its management cadre school. Influenced by China's traditional culture since ancient times, South Korea is the only country in the world that truly worships Confucius. Every spring and autumn, South Korea will hold a ceremony to worship Confucius, and the government will send senior officials to attend. Professor An Bingzhou of Sungkyunkwan University in South Korea believes that Confucianism has promoted the modernization and economic development of South Korea. He said: "Confucianism can play a regulatory role, preventing selfish desires, egoism and other bad tendencies and the degeneration of social thoughts produced by modernization." Because in terms of values, Confucian culture advocates the spirit of sacrifice and selflessness for others and is widely respected and respected. These traditional concepts are not available in the West. " Many western scholars pointed out: "If human beings want to survive in the 2 1 century, they must go back to 2500 years ago and learn the wisdom of Confucius." This shows that western developed countries attach great importance to Confucian culture.
Confucian culture is extensive and profound, including benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom, faith, loyalty, filial piety, sincerity, filial piety, the doctrine of the mean, knowing and doing, and many other contents.
First, Confucian culture believes that the truth of cosmic life is "one". It is believed that human beings ascend to heaven, descend everything, operate everything in heaven and earth according to certain rules, work and rest reasonably with heaven and earth, live in harmony with heaven and earth, and do not harm heaven and earth and others, so as to achieve the harmonious unity between man and nature, man and man, and man and his own virtue. This is the same as what we advocate now: love the people (respect, understand and care for the people), love the family, love parents, love the party, love the country and love socialism. This is consistent with our advocacy of establishing a truly democratic and legal system, fair competition, honesty and friendship, full of vitality, stability and order, and an environment in which man and nature live in harmony.
As the foundation of enterprise culture construction under the condition of socialist market economy, the theory of "integration" has two characteristics: first, it is socialist, which is mainly reflected in developing productive forces faster, realizing sustainable economic development and common prosperity. Socialism is the unity of interests, representing the common interests of individuals, collectives, society and mankind. It requires that in the process of economic and social development, people make the best use of their talents, make the best use of natural resources, protect the living environment of human beings, achieve stable, healthy, coordinated and sustainable economic and social development, and finally achieve prosperity. Second, the oriental characteristics of the market economy are mainly reflected in the spirit of Confucian businessmen. Confucian businessmen are businessmen who carry out the spirit of Confucianism and Taoism in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, and their main feature is that they take morality as their business. The spirit of Confucian businessmen first refers to "a gentleman loves money and takes it wisely". In other words, business is not just about making money. At the same time, you should have a big vision, a big wrist, a big spirit, and a long-term strategic goal of a big businessman. Secondly, the spirit of Confucian businessmen is hard-working, dare to develop themselves and be good at fighting. At the same time, they have a persevering spirit, good at sharing weal and woe, and keeping a low profile. Third, the spirit of Confucian businessmen is a model of the organic combination of personal interests and family interests, national interests and national interests. They do business with the value concept of isomorphism between home and country, and pursue a high degree of coordination and unity between personal interests and family interests, national interests and national interests.
The application of "integration theory" in corporate culture construction is mainly reflected in the business philosophy of meeting the legitimate needs and desires of society and customers. It requires that the production and operation activities of an enterprise be regarded as a process of continuously meeting the legitimate needs of society and customers, rather than simply manufacturing or selling a certain product or service. From enterprise conception to the planning and implementation of commodity service design, pricing, promotion and distribution, we should not only strive to meet the legitimate needs and aspirations of society and consumers, but also make profits from them, and require the whole business process to be consistent with the long-term interests of consumers and the whole society. Correctly handle the relationship between the enterprise's own interests, the legitimate needs of consumers and the overall interests of the whole society, so as to make overall plans and realize the balance and unity of the three interests. When there are contradictions and conflicts between the three interests, enterprises should first consider and protect the overall interests of society, then consider and protect the interests of consumers, and finally their own interests. The overall interests of society and the legitimate interests of consumers are guaranteed, and the interests of enterprises themselves are naturally among them. Perhaps, enterprises will temporarily sacrifice some immediate interests, but they will certainly gain long-term and greater benefits. This kind of planning and implementation does not begin after the product is produced, nor when the product is finally sold or the service is completed, but includes the whole process of a series of management before and after the sale. It is not only confined to the field of circulation between production and consumption, but also permeates the field of production and consumption, that is, the sovereignty of producing and selling products is not in producers and sellers, nor in consumers, but in the coordination and unity of the common interests of the three and the long-term interests of the whole society.
Secondly, Confucian culture believes that the attitude that human beings should have is "the world is public". Confucian culture believes that human nature is nature. Nature is selfless, just and equal. The sun shines on the earth, giving everything the energy to survive, but asking for nothing in return; The earth bears the burden of humiliation and nourishes everything, and has nothing to ask for; Trees and oceans provide necessary air, water and resources for all things, and tolerate the garbage discharged by all things. The difference is that trees are high, so they are often cut down, while the sea is at the lowest position, and everything can be accommodated and tolerated. All rivers belong to it, so it is always called big.
"Co-existence" is the basic nature and direction of a harmonious socialist society, and it is the correct choice in line with nature and humanity. "Gong" means "Gong * * *", "Justice", "Fairness", "Openness" and "Similar to * * *" and so on, which represents a kind of unity of interests and the coordination and unity of interests in all aspects. The Book of Rites says, "The trip to the Avenue is also a trip to the world, and the world is public. Choose talents and abilities, talk about faith and repair. An old friend is not only a relative, but also an only child, so that the old will have an end, the young will be useful, and the sick will be raised; Men get points and women get rewards. If the goods are abandoned on the ground, there is no need to hide them on yourself; You don't have to do it for yourself. " Because of this, you try to close it, but you don't do it. Because you don't do it as a thief, you don't shut it out. This is called Datong. "This passage not only reflects the primitive capitalist life of human beings, but also expresses the common desire and pursuit of" one family under the world ",which is consistent with the ideals and goals pursued by a harmonious society.
However, there are still discordant notes in our daily life. Some enterprises lie, talk big and talk empty words to varying degrees, make false accounts, report false figures, engage in false audits, manufacture and sell fake, risky, fake and inferior products, do "one-hammer" business, and even cheat, cheat and cheat; There is everything from office supplies and facilities to national assets and construction projects. Some business operators, knowing that their virtue, ability and level are not good, insist on refusing to step down voluntarily, which is a mistake for the country, the enterprise, the people and themselves. Only when they can't survive or have problems, will they abdicate ignominiously. There are even criminal cases such as corruption. The reasons for these problems are: first, the lack of internal constraints, that is, the constraints of self-ethics; Second, the lack of external constraints, that is, the effective constraints of system and discipline. This requires our enterprises to establish the same ideals and beliefs, the same values and moral codes of conduct among their employees as soon as possible, to establish an effective restraint and incentive mechanism, to restrain people's psychology with recognized moral norms, and to restrain and motivate people's behavior with relatively perfect systems, so that their employees can establish the idea of "thinking about the world, living for the people and learning from the past to secure the world". It requires us to establish lofty ideals and beliefs, establish a correct world outlook, outlook on life and values, and strive for our reform, opening up, construction and development. The so-called "heart of heaven and earth" is to conform to the laws of nature and the people's hearts in the world, that is, to shoulder the historical mission of developing the economy, prospering enterprises, enriching the people and strengthening the country; "Make the past serve the present" means inheriting and carrying forward the excellent traditional culture of the Chinese nation with Confucianism as the main body, absorbing and drawing lessons from all the achievements of human civilization, and establishing a strong moral pillar and spiritual motivation; "World peace" means realizing the sustainable development of economy, using natural resources scientifically and rationally, protecting the living environment of human beings and the achievements of civilization, and leaving a rich material and spiritual legacy for future generations. That is, adhere to Marxist beliefs, implement Scientific Outlook on Development, build the party for the public and govern for the people. Achieve "harmony between man and nature."
Third, Confucian culture believes that people's most basic moral character is filial piety and gratitude. The core of corporate culture is people-oriented, and being an enterprise is actually being a person. Although the system is important, it is formulated by people, and the system itself is not perfect. It needs people to constantly improve and implement it. Only when people consciously and voluntarily abide by and implement the system can the system play its due role. If a person insists on breaking the system, the system itself cannot stop him. Therefore, in the case of imperfect system, mechanism and system, people have become the decisive factor for the success or failure of enterprises. The ultimate goal of corporate culture is to guide people's spontaneity, and the filial piety and gratitude of Confucian culture can solve the problem of people's consciousness and self-restraint. Gratitude is the most basic moral quality of human beings, therefore, the construction of corporate culture should start with the most basic moral quality of being a man-filial piety.
The first is to repay the parents for their parenting. Some people ask what this has to do with the construction of corporate culture. Of course, it has a lot to do with it and is very important. Our workers come from a family, and family education comes first. In other words, your first teacher came from your parents and family. Be pregnant in October and breast-feed for one year. After 20 years of careful care and cultivation by parents, we can grow up. I can't repay your kindness. To repay your parents, you must first be an adoptive parent. Parents have worked hard to raise their children for most of their lives, but they are getting old and even sick. For children, supporting their parents is not only a legal responsibility and obligation, but also a good opportunity to repay their kindness. Second, be an adoptive parent. Parents are old and sick, of course, they need the careful care of their children, but what parents need more is spiritual comfort. Therefore, children should be modest and prudent in all aspects of work, study, life and life, and strive to make their parents feel at ease, at ease and comfortable, and not let their parents worry, worry and worry. Once again, I want to be an adoptive parent. Parents have many ambitions all their lives, some of which have been realized and some of which have not. They put a lot of hopes on their children. If children can make a difference in study, work and society according to their parents' expectations and requirements, that is the best reward for their parents' upbringing, and parents will feel the greatest satisfaction and comfort. This is to repay your parents.
The second is to report the grace of teachers' cultivation. Although our parents can raise us, without teachers, we wouldn't know etiquette and reason, learn culture and scientific knowledge, and wouldn't have today's achievements and status. As the saying goes, "Respect is better than obedience", and the best reward for teachers is to follow their instructions, keep in mind their requirements and expectations, keep studying, study hard, work hard and make a difference, so as to achieve "shine on you is better than blue". Teachers will feel great comfort and glory when they see their students (apprentices) and subordinates have made achievements and progress. This is the teacher of the newspaper office. As enterprise leaders, officials at all levels (including workshop directors and team leaders) should treat employees as brothers and sisters, caring, caring, helping, supporting, supporting and cultivating them. Workers should respect leaders, be open-minded, eager to learn, work hard, master real skills and serve teachers. Employees should be strict with themselves from the day they enter the factory, be modest and prudent, guard against arrogance and rashness, work hard, make contributions and love the factory as home.
The third is to repay the kindness of the people. Imagine that we can have today's living environment and living conditions, not given by the party and the state, not by the people. Without the law-making guarantee established by the state, the protection of the people's army and the people's police, and the support of the people, how can we have today's ample food and clothing? Where would we be now without the people? Textile workers work hard to weave good cloth every day, but they are reluctant to wear it, while some people often find fault; Farmers cut crops at noon every day, but they are reluctant to eat better. Even the problem of food and clothing for farmers in quite a few areas has not been fundamentally solved. However, some people often waste money on eating and drinking; Many construction workers have built tall buildings all their lives, but they have not lived in their own buildings; Many laid-off workers are wandering around, unable to find suitable jobs, and even have difficulty supporting their families, while some people are often transferred, which is not satisfactory, and that is not satisfactory; Some old revolutionary areas have been blocked by roads and inconvenient transportation. In some cities, roads are paved today and dug tomorrow, which is an amazing loss and waste! A considerable number of people are still working and living in a difficult environment, while some people are relaxing day by day and cursing their parents! I always think that the organization owes them more, and the producers have wronged them and vented their dissatisfaction everywhere. Clap your conscience, what value are these people (including ourselves) creating every day? What contribution has it made to society? Is the contribution really greater than the people? Should we really be so extravagant and wasteful? Even now, it is time to seriously think about these problems! Only by clarifying these problems can we be clear about what attitude we should adopt towards work, society and people.
Confucian culture is profound and simple, so it is easily accepted by people. If these basic ideas run through the whole process of enterprise culture construction and melt into the minds of enterprise employees and the masses, they will play a great role in cohesion, form great energy, promote the leap-forward development of enterprises and maintain social stability. Western developed countries are learning and applying the culture of our ancestors to develop enterprises, conduct transnational operations, develop high technology and build their own ideal society. Why don't we inherit and study them? We have always advocated making the past serve the present and making foreign things serve China. Therefore, we must carry forward the excellent culture of the Chinese nation and create a more splendid oriental culture. Shandong is the hometown of Confucius and Mencius and the birthplace of Confucian culture. As an enterprise, we should inherit and carry forward these excellent cultural traditions. Only in this way can we play the role of corporate culture in enterprise management and development more effectively, make greater contributions to our society and build a better, harmonious and unified great motherland.
Fourth, the creation of excellent corporate culture must be unified with the construction of a harmonious socialist society.
The Fourth Plenary Session of the 16th CPC Central Committee decided to point out: "It is an inevitable requirement to consolidate the social foundation of the Party's governance and realize the historical task of the Party's governance to form a society in which all people live in harmony according to their abilities." Building a harmonious enterprise environment is the need of developing excellent enterprise culture and integrating into the globalization of economic development.
First, to build an excellent corporate culture that is unified with a harmonious socialist society, all manufacturers and consumers must be required to have excellent qualities of "emphasizing quality, reputation, public morality, image and honesty", which is the need to cultivate excellent corporate culture. We should educate and manage every organizational system, every activity and every employee of the enterprise according to the standard of "four stresses and one stresses". So that the work of cultivating excellent corporate culture can be integrated into all aspects of enterprise production management and coordinated development.
Second, to build an excellent corporate culture that is unified with a harmonious socialist society, we must persist in mobilizing all positive factors most extensively and fully. The Fourth Plenary Session of the 16th CPC Central Committee decided that to build a harmonious socialist society, we should fully implement the principles of respecting labor, knowledge, talents and creativity, and constantly enhance the creative vitality of the whole society. We must break down all obstacles, so that all creative aspirations conducive to social progress and enterprise reform and development are respected, creative activities are supported, creative talents can be brought into play, and creative achievements are affirmed. Give full play to the creative ability of the working class and promote economic and social development.
Third, to build an excellent corporate culture that is unified with a harmonious socialist society, we must properly coordinate the interests of all parties and correctly handle contradictions among the people. Adhere to the party's mass line and strengthen and improve mass work under the new situation. Timely adjust the relationship between various interest groups and members within the enterprise. Attach great importance to and safeguard the most realistic, caring and direct interests of the workers and staff, and resolutely correct all kinds of behaviors that harm the interests of the masses. Education guides the broad masses of cadres and workers to correctly treat individual interests and collective interests, local interests and overall interests, current interests and long-term interests, and enhance their sense of ownership and social responsibility.
Fourth, to build an excellent corporate culture that is unified with a harmonious socialist society, we must promote harmony with civilization. Civilization and harmony are inseparable. Social harmony is the symbol of social civilization, and social civilization is the foundation of social harmony. Developing advanced socialist culture and building socialist spiritual civilization are important intellectual support, spiritual motivation and ideological guarantee for improving the quality of the whole nation and building a harmonious socialist society. Many disharmonious problems are rooted in uncivilized. Therefore, it is necessary to carry out extensive education on social morality, professional ethics and family virtues, advocate the basic moral norms of patriotism and law-abiding, courtesy and honesty, unity and friendliness, hard work and self-improvement, and dedication in the whole society, cultivate good moral quality and civilized fashion, and promote harmonious coexistence with civilization.
Fifth, to build an excellent corporate culture that is unified with a harmonious socialist society, we must promote harmony through reform and innovation. Social instability and disharmony are due to the unreasonable structure supporting society and the uncoordinated mode and mode of social operation. Enterprises are a part of society, and workers are a cell of society. To promote harmony, we must start from the grassroots level and solve the fundamental interests of the workers and the masses. We must adhere to the fundamental interests of the overwhelming majority of the people as the basic focus of policy formulation, correctly reflect the fundamental interests of workers and reflect their wishes and requirements. Therefore, we must use reform methods and innovative systems to make them reasonably coordinated, so that society can be stable and harmonious. Gradually establish equity in rights, opportunities, rules and distribution. Let all employees enjoy the fruits of reform and development and make steady progress in the direction of prosperity. (Author: Yantai Economic and Trade Commission)
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1. Central Committee's decision on strengthening the Party's ruling ability.
2. The basis of corporate culture
3. The Study Guidance of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 16th CPC Central Committee.
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Brief introduction of the author
Sui Fujun, male, Han nationality, from Rushan City, Shandong Province, 1955 10. In-service bachelor degree, senior political engineer. 65438+joined the work in September 0974, 1974, 65438+February 17, and joined the China * * * production party. In the same year, he joined the army on February 26th, 65438. He has served as a soldier, vice squad leader, squad leader, brigade secretary, director of the political department of the regiment, political instructor of the company, political instructor of the ground-to-air missile battalion, political assistant of the army hospital, director of the political department of the division, chief of the organization, and deputy director of the tenth logistics department of jinan military area command (deputy regiment level). 1August, 1997, served as secretary of the Party branch of Yantai Economic and Trade Commission. In June, 20001year, he served as the director of the trade union of Yantai Economic and Trade Commission. In 2003, the Propaganda Department of Yantai Municipal Committee was transferred to help with the work. He has published more than 500 novels, essays, poems, reportage, newsletters and various research manuscripts. He has compiled and published books such as "Never forget the past, be a teacher of the future", "Song of Justice", "Necessary Work of Party Branches" and "Writing Skills and Practice". His achievements have been listed in China 2 1 Century Talent Pool, National Biography of Outstanding Demobilized Soldiers, China Outstanding Children, China Expert Dictionary and China Celebrity Ceremony. It was absorbed as a member by Yantai Writers Association and China Official Document Writing Research Association. In February, 2002, 65438 won the China Contemporary Secretary Contribution Award. In February 2004, he was hired as a distinguished researcher by Chinese Academy of Management Sciences. In 2004, 1 1 was accepted as a member of the Council of China Secretarial Science Federation.