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Thread: Soon to work in Harbin , Need to learn language fast! Starting now from Wisconsin USA

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[quote=METAPHORE,260728]IN America  there are  indeed  differences in the way  business and worker self responsibility  expectations  assumptions and realities are  from north to south  east to west.  These vary widely from management levels to Professional crafts and trads ppersons to  Production workers to novice and  less trained  workers

In the northern Midwest  we seem to have a  work ethic that  is  very individually motivated  and with a  very high awareness of the social  good .
 For example in Wisconsin, and Minnesota  when many  workers  find a tool or part laying  on a busy  work  place  path  he will pick it up and  return it to where it belongs or to who it belongs .
 From my experience in Kentucky and Arkansas and Louisiana  it is more likely the worker will  step over it  and keep walking (thinking  it is not my job to pick up that tool)    not thinking to  keep the workplace  neat or safer  unless told to  pick it up by a supervisor..

So when I have a Project  and have a choice  to hire a worker from the south or a worker from the north  I  have a  tendency to  have faith the worker from the north will   have more  personal motivation.  I wish this  were not  true  so as to make it seem like a prejudice but my  long experience,  on average  seems to validate this  thought mor than invalidate it .

so I seek to learn more about the work ethic and  social work structure.  The traditional Ethic and the developing  ethic as Chinas workers and managers   move  at high speed out from collective thinking getting comfortable with  the  world of capitalism.
 
Are most working people ( welders, mechanics, drafts people, truck drivers)   in a hierarchical  thinking mode where orders must be  given from above to implement  changes or modifications or  is there a a sense of  ownership  and  personal initiative solidly in place ?

I am so ignorant  and have so little time to  re mediate this  lack of understanding.

So many questions so little time.
thanks  TG
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