Dongguan model and Foxconn management so-called "anti-social advantage"

This article is a fallacy, not only a labor sociology research, but also a business model study. During the period I went to Dongguan Grassroots, interviewed the industry veteran, on its industrial chain and business model to a certain degree of research.

Foxconn young workers jumping off the incident can be explained from a number of angles, I have from the "rice character" and "video game character" Angle of interpretation, this no longer explained in detail. The other day when I visited Foxconn, I found a new angle of interpretation.

Foxconn is an industrial marvel in China and even around the world. In the manufacturing sector, the success of its business model is surprising: it can also be a foundry for companies that compete fiercely with each other, Nokia, Ericsson, Motorola and Apple. This is a very big challenge, because the mobile communications industry in the field of trade secret protection is very important, a company's latest model if able to occupy the market one months earlier, the killing of its competitors will be fatal. Several giants in the industry have been wary of each other, spying on each other. And Foxconn can make several dead rival products in the same factory production, have to admit that its management is unique.

And how do they do that? After the Foxconn research, I found that the management model of Foxconn is characterized by socialization of people. Mr Gou's military administration is akin to Mao's "building a branch." This mode of management, every worker into a brick, want to move where to move. At a time when Foxconn workers committed suicide, Guangzhou Honda had a strike, which in my opinion does not mean that Guangzhou Honda is a bad company, just shows that it is more respectful of people. That is because in Japanese management, the emphasis on team trust can improve organizational efficiency and combat effectiveness, in the Second World War, the Japanese have the villagers into a company tradition. The same is true in Guangzhou Honda, where Japanese managers are accustomed to working with people who are well-connected, giving them a convenient condition to organise a strike. On the contrary, Foxconn is a conscious old fellow, the classmate such interpersonal ties apart, so Foxconn employees can not like Guangzhou Honda to organize a strike, there will be suicide such extreme personal response. I feel clearly at Foxconn, each worker is like a screw on the assembly line, because the reason of shift work, even people who live in a dormitory, usually seldom meet. Because cutting off the horizontal link between people, natural any individual even in Foxconn work, to do business espionage is difficult, because it is difficult to master the entire production process, but also difficult to understand what other people on the production line is doing? So that rival companies such as Nokia, Apple and Motorola are not afraid to hand over their orders to Foxconn , which has leaked to rivals. This has done wonders for Foxconn, but its negative effects are obvious.

In his writings explaining the phenomenon of suicide, Durkheim's "suicide" is one of the leaders. Some people have attributed suicide to religion, culture and other reasons, but Durkheim that the real reason for suicide is that people's socialization is too low. In his view, the meaning of life is established in the connection with society, once a person feels isolated by the group, showing the state of atomization, the likelihood of suicide will increase. Many people commit suicide because they cannot find their own position in the coordinates of the society, feel the meaning of existence, and thus escape the pain in the way of ending life.

So from this perspective, the characteristics of the Foxconn workers ' atomization determine their high suicide rate. On the other hand, this feature is also a major reason why Foxconn's business model has been able to succeed. Foxconn does not have an active staff union or an organization such as a staff club, so there is a lack of horizontal contact between workers and a tendency to have a simple social relationship, with no one in the dorm to even know each other. This feature allows Foxconn to take orders from major handset makers without fear of leaking trade secrets, a requirement that companies elsewhere in the world cannot achieve. Mr Gou has tried the same pattern in places such as Vietnam, Brazil and India, but cannot succeed, as the workforce is rich but unable to adapt to a single working environment. By extension, this management model is not only unique to Foxconn, but also a very important part of the operation of China's economic model.

Like Foxconn, the militarized management of Dongguan

A few days ago, a friend of mine and I traveled to Dongguan, we are interested in the pornography industry in Dongguan. Dongguan's pornography industry is well-known all over the country, is said to be all over the sex workers, sometimes a street there are many nightclubs, competition is very fierce, so in the open competition market, really rely on quality of service and Word-of-mouth win. Even Dongguan's pornography industry has played a famous brand, called "Dongguan-style services." Through my friends, I managed to find some friends who have worked in the sex industry, there are "chicken chickens", there are "female prostitutes", there are local "leaders", let people give us a brief introduction of how to achieve "Dongguan-style services." According to them, the Dongguan-style service refers to an industry standard and a set of organizational systems behind it. This means that Dongguan's pornographic services have reached the world's leading standardization of industrialization, which means that the sex workers in Dongguan can be like the production line to provide customers with services.

I was very speechless after listening. Because some things are easy to standardize, like KFC's hamburger. The world's hamburger is a shape, the demand difference is not big. and human sexual activities, is arguably the most intimate, most personalized and demand the most complex action, is the most difficult to standardize, and Dongguan actually did, which can be said to be a worldwide miracle. These friends described to me that the standard of the Dongguan service is very high, even when the ladies make what kind of bed sound, with what kind of expression, there are strict rules, even in the control of time can be achieved to the degree of seconds.

When I was in America, I contacted a leader in the sex industry, Jeannette Maire (Jeanette Maier), who was very successful in New Orleans's sex industry, even when she said she was thinking of running for a senator. In her view, the sex industry in the United States is a family business, and the brothel she runs is like a big family, and sex workers are like sisters who have good relationships, and some even bring their daughters into this business. In general, they have very strong social ties in their careers. I visit their red light district in Holland, it is a typical workshop-style operation, basically a sex worker can a shop, the first floor big glass window writhing, the second floor provides the service, moreover the profession Association is very formidable, provides the sex worker labor protection.

In Dongguan, the management of the pornography industry, it is a kind of military management, such as Foxconn, even a "chicken" told me that he had organized the girls training, to develop their obedience and discipline. In-service training, each of the young ladies in accordance with a set of procedures for a one-month training, with a view to the post can reach the standard of the Dongguan-style service. Even in the work in order to promote the "Customer is God" concept, the ladies must strictly follow the established procedures and methods, as long as the guests are not satisfied with the complaint, then this time is a white do.

Dongguan is almost the sex industry in the field of Foxconn.

There are few other companies around the world that can be the generation of major handset makers, and Foxconn does; there are few other places in the world that can scale, bulk, and standardize production of pornography, and Dongguan did.

Why can't foreigners do this and the Chinese can do it? It's not that foreigners can't think of these methods, nor do they blame Mr Gou's bosses, but the Chinese society after the Mao-style revolution, the traditional social networks and interpersonal trust ties have been destroyed, and human social relations can be more easily cut off, The cost of the Chinese atomization has been greatly reduced. At the same time, the Chinese hard-working character, but also can adapt to the Taylor Standard Challenge, can accept strict piecework. And the Chinese character in my opinion there is very different from the Indians, Africans, is that the Chinese people are good with their own rivalry, that is, the marginal investment of self-reinforcing. Once a certain indicator is set, the Chinese are more likely to try to accomplish their goals and strive to do better than others.

The workers on the Foxconn assembly line work like robots every day, and the income is two thousand or three thousand dollars a month, which seems to me too low. After work, everyone is tired just want to sleep, but the next day once seen in the "emulation" table on their progress and backward, and then lit their own hard work enthusiasm. Interestingly, in Dongguan's pornography industry, there is some kind of strong individualistic values, but also particularly encourage the "fighting spirit." Although their work is not recognized in the mainstream society, managers in the industry can also allow them to accept the "emulation" values. So what does a model worker in the sex industry look like? Even during the period of the holiday also adhere to the post, every day more than 10 people. In my opinion, such a so-called competition is a violation of human nature, but also the destruction of people, and the industry is accustomed to this, this is the "de-inlay" in Poland is a living extreme case.

In Foxconn and Dongguan pornography, the Chinese have succeeded in doing things that no other nation in the world can do. Mr. Qin summed up the characteristics of the Chinese model as "low human rights advantage", and I can call it "antisocial advantage" from another angle. Also China has some industries in the world to maintain the strong competitiveness of the cheats.

Of course, it's hard for you to be proud of.