Confucian Ethics And Modern Chinese Entrepreneur Spirit

Confucian businessmen refer to the oriental businessmen affected by traditional Chinese culture, especially by Confucianism, possessed of high moral accomplishment and armed with excellent managing abilities. They chiefly include traditional Chinese businessmen and excellent overseas businessmen with good cultural accomplishment. As a group of people bred by Confucianism and commercial economy, Confucian businessmen are developing and changing with the development of Confucianism, commercial economy and social conditions. The developing course has undergone four periods of time, that is, Xianqing Period-the formative period, Qinghan Weijing Period-the potential developing period, Tangsong Period-a progressively rising period, Mingqing Period -the prime of its development. After entering modern times, national entrepreneurs carried on the spirit of Confucian businessmen. What is more, the spirit of Confucian businessmen got developed among the businessmen of Hongkong, Taiwan, and foreign countries. There appeared a group of outstanding Confucian businessmen abroad.Confucian businessmen have shaped a kind of businessmen ethics with special characteristics in the long-term operating practice, which is called Confucian ethics. As a sort of businessman ethics with eastern cultural characteristics, Confucian ethics is the outcome of Confucian ethical spirit in collaboration with commercial economic law. On the one hand, it reflects the inner requirement of commodity economy, and ethics of exchange relationships of commodities. On the other hand, it reflects the fundamental principle of Confucian ethics, and the basic demand of the Confucian ethics to human's behavior. The radical rule and core of it is its unification of righteousness and benefit with an emphasis on getting benefit by using righteousness. That is, benefit should be gained by proper means corresponding to morality andjustice; benefit should be gained to show the existence of morality. Confucian businessman ethics contains abundant connotations, mainly including Confucian businessman value conception, Confucian businessman operating ethic, Confucian businessman management ethic, and Confucian businessman work ethic.Confucian value conception is a basic theory concerning the purpose, value, and meaning of the commercial activities, it is a general principle for guiding Confucian businessmen's operating activity, the basic value goal of Confucian businessman is to build up their families and bring credit to their ancestors, namely, to connect closely the commercial economic activity with the family benefit, to strive to start an undertaking through their own commercial activities, and to bring honor to their ancestors through their own wealth and accomplishment .the prime idea of the value conception of Confucian businessman is to save the world and to serve the people, combine gaining benefit through commercial activity with dedicating oneself to the service of his country ,and get a super-ideal goal through secular commercial business.Confucian businessman operating ethic refers to the ethical principle used to conduct their relationships with the outside world formed in the operating activities of Confucian businessmen. It mainly includes three basic standards: being honest and faithful, being just and mutually beneficial and being peaceful and courteous. Faithfulness and honesty is the first principle of Confucian businessmen operating ethic, demanding that Confucian businessmen should be honest, faithful, and frank. As for the commercial management, it advocates just sales, moderate prices mutual benefit and mutual profit. In addition, Confucian businessmen encourage peace and courtesy in the management, that is, they pay attention to treating customers with respect and kind attitude and coordinate their relationships, advocating collaboration spirit while compete with each other.Confucian businessmen management ethics refers to the ethicalprinciple and moral spirit which Confucian businessman use to conduct the relationships amo...