華人的企業文化與生產力

Chinese Corporate Culture and Productivity

本文的主要目的是在探討華人文化傳統對家族企業之企業文化的影響及其與生產力之間的可能關係。作者以他對儒家思想的分析作為參考架構，討論華人的家族主義、權威主義、人情主義、長程取向、勤奮工作等特徵，並討論這些特徵與家族企業之企業文化間的關連。作者主張，提高組織中生產力的主要因素是：（1）依照公平法則建立一種激勵或酬賞制度，使個人的利益與組織的利益合而為一；以（2）引發個人追求成就或工作的動機；（3）樂於採用並以彈性的精神運用新的生產方法或技術，以解決他們所面臨的問題。

This paper was aimed to study the influence of Chinese cultural tradition on the corporate culture of family business and its tentative relationship with productivity. Such Chinese characteristics as familism, authoritarianism, and personalism, long-term orientation, hard-working, etc., were discussed within the author’s framework for analyzing Confucianism. Their relationship with corporate culture of family business were also examined. It is argued that the crucial factors for promoting productivity in an organization are: (1) constructing a reward or incentive system in accordance with equity rule to align personal interests with organizational interests, so as to (2) elicit individual's motivations to work or to pursue achievement, by (3) adopting new methods or new techniques of production and utilizing them in a flexible way to solve problems and satisfy needs.