| In the recent twenty years, along with China's political and economic reforms, and with the rapid development of globalization of the world economy, China's foreign trade system has undergone a dramatic change, i.e., transforming gradually from a "state monopolized foreign trade system " to a "managed free trade system". As such, those state-owned import & export companies which were flourishing under the former system, have also inevitably undertaken a tidal wave of changes. More specifically, it implies that import & export companies have now been reshaped into "general foreign trade enterprises" under market competition rather than "official companies" with exclusivity in a planned economy in the old days. Due to this fundamental change, state-owned import & export companies have to reposition and adjust themselves to the new situation. Thus, for those companies management, though managing a modernized enterprise being a brand new concept to them, is the key to their survival. If they want to sustain their uniqueness and continue to develop and flourish, they have to disavow the management style under the former planned economy system and adopt the scientific management theory for modern enterprises. They should design a new management model, in the light of the characteristics embedded in the initial stage of socialism, for state-owned import & export companies under the market economy system. The purpose of this thesis is to explore the possibility of an appropriate management model. The thesis is divided into three chapters. In the first chapter, the author gives a comprehensive, all-inclusive and in-depth review of the state-owned import & export companies, and analyzes the process of their growth and development in the context of their historic background. Based on the polemical materialistic historical analysis, the author summarizes the accomplishments of those companies achieved in various historic development stages of China's socialist construction, as well as the problems remaining to day. In the second chapter, the author mainly covers the impacts resulted from the great changes from the external environment and internal operation of state-owned import & export companies faced during the transformation from the planned economy to the market economy. The author cited his personal experience of over ten years' operation and management with the state-owned import & export companies to disclose the negative influences of staleness in these companies, as well as all the differences and problems including monotype business operation, vulnerable assets, impractical rules and regulations, bureaucratic merchants and unjustifiable manpower and allocation system, which can hardly comply with the modern management system. As more and more foreign companies enter the Chinese market, and the emergence of private foreign trade companies, the state-owned import & export companies are facing fierce competition from both international and domestic markets. The author attempts to seek the ways to activate state-owned import & export companies, and to instigate their new leadership and mangement thinking, to change their management styles and explore the possibility of a new management model that could promote their proper development. Based on the previous two chapters, the author, in the third chapter, tries to put forward a management model on a theoretical basis for state-owned import & export companies with an aim to prosper under the free trade system, i.e. "Oriental Human-Trust Management Model", with his own practical management experiences and the theories learned from the MBA courses. This management model, based on the scientific management theory, is a management theory that focuses on people and the essence of Chinese management culture of trust and credibility for thousands of years. "Oriental Human-Trust Management Model" consists of three main components: human appeal management theory centered on 'people' with modern scientific management; trust and cred... |
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