Trouble in Paradise: A Focused Exploration
of Culture and Management

Yan-Jiu-Yan-Jiu – Unprofessional or Unamerican?
Mike is having a hard time dealing with a working style that his Chinese partners refer to as yan-jiu-yan-jiu, which means "lets review and discuss." The Chinese were reluctant to install a new sewage disposal system, preferring to defer the work until adequate discussion and review had taken place. This style and pace of decision making did not register well with Mike's high performance, time is money driven personality; he had been raised in a culture where optimal efficiency depended on timely decision making. Moreover, responsibility became so diffuse that no one took initiative to really get things done. The lets review and discuss style certainly created frustrations among the aggressive, individualist Americans.
Yan-jiu-yan-jiu relates to Hofstede's dimension of uncertainty avoidance – clearly the Americans are demonstrating a strong uncertainty......

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Title: Chinese Business System
Approximate Word Count: 1714
Approximate Pages: 7 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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