Listen to the young employees

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to adopt cultural perspective while exploring the management practices of young employees in China's IT industry. The paper aims to present the expectation of young Chinese generation employees (post '80s) that emerged from Confucianism shaped by an increasing individualistic ideology in China. The design/methodology/approach of this paper is multiple case studies followed by face to face interviews. The result of this paper profiles an expected Chinese manager who natured by Confucianism principles and practiced by Western scientific approach, which will be the most accepted by current young Chinese employees. The generalisation of the findings may be limited by the small size samples from one occupational sector and region. The paper fills up the gap of existing Chinese management theories. It also offers practice-based operational guidance for managers facilitating their personalities and daily managing behaviour. The value of this paper is to present the Chinese young employees' expectations of their managers and the relations between them and managers, in turn to advise the managers adjust their managing behaviour in the daily management.