Recognizing Across Cultures: China

Do you understand guanxi and mianzi? Do you know how recognition is unique in China? In our ongoing series on Recognizing across Cultures, we will discuss the cultural and business norms on a region by region basis and use our experience to give you some recommendations for making recognition relevant and powerful for your employees.

Mainland China

Overview

Mainland China, on the whole, tends to be a highly holistic and collectivist culture, where workers must understand the context of their wor...