Oriental management

Oriental management, doing research on both the latest and historical theories and practices of management both inside and outside China and operation rules of management, is one of the modern management schools. Oriental management, based on the unique traditional culture of eastern countries, especially China, has integrated the essence of management thoughts from both the east and the west, after decades of study.^[1] The theoretical foundations of oriental management are Chinese Management, Western Management and Overseas Chinese Management.The concept of "human orientedness", "human morality" and "human behavior", which is the essence and core value of oriental management, was created by Prof. Su Dongshui, who is the founder of oriental management school, in early 1990s. The research scope of oriental management is not confined to business, but extending to almost all fields of management, including individual governance, family governance, business governance and state governance. By exercising and implementing the "Fifteen philosophical elements", including rules of governing a state, flexibility against changes, human orientedness, application of power, pragmaticism, regarding harmony as priority, attaching importance on using tools, state governance by law, embarking on a business with credit and good faith, being well planned, stratagem in decision making, subtle using of tactics, being highly efficient and uncorrupted, being industrious in making a fortune, and entelechy with reason, the highest purpose or ultimate value of oriental management is harmonious society in which everybody fulfills his comprehensive and free development.

References

1. ^ Su Dongshui, Oriental Management, Shanghai: Fudan University Press, 2005.