Chinese gov't's take on harmonious labor relations
Chinese authors X. Zhu and M. Zhang explore how China aimed to reimagine labor relations as the county quickly transformed to a more market-oriented system.
Labor relations got much attention from researchers and managers, and the intensification of labor relations conflict has brought heavy pressure to the community and enterprises. As China’s economy continuously transformed too rapidly, China’s labor relations have been replaced by market-oriented labor relations, with the intensification of labor relations conflict, such as Foxconn incident, has caused widespread concern. In the context of continuous improvement in the quality of workers, simple and crude solutions cannot meet the needs of the times, therefore, how to properly deal with the conflicts of interest between employers and employees and to build harmonious labor relations has become an unavoidable reality question at the present stage of Chinese society.
1) Harmonious labor relations are a breakthrough in building a harmonious society. The core of harmonious society lay in the harmony among people. An investigation report of Tsinghua university has pointed out that our country was facing a number of social conflicts currently, and building harmonious labor relations was the key point to eliminate “power of evil”, “capital of evil” represented by this trend and to resolve the imbalance in China’s interest, and to establish the labor game mechanism.
2) Harmonious labor relations are the core competetiveness of enterprises. Labor relations are the most important relationship in the modern market economy, and harmonious labor relations are the request of the modern market economy, which is essential for businesses to establish and maintain a sustainable competitive advantage. In order to gain a competitive advantage, enterprises will have to gain cost advantages and personnel advantages. The data have shown that China’s current labor dispute cases were increasing at an annual rate of 30 percent, and labor conflict has become a key factor constraining the effective development of China’s enterprises, and thus affected the social harmony.
3) Harmonious labor relations reflect the value pursuit of people-oriented. Premier Wen Jiabao pointed out, to let workers live in dignity. Not only enjoy equal freedom and rights authorized by the law and the Constitution, but also achieve their own comprehensive development under the conditions provided by the society, which including the power of obtaining wages and benefits, and the freedom of improving the living standards. And harmonious labor relations are based on the guarantee of the power of workers, and the achievement of the benefits.
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