"Huang Di Nei Jing" Thought And Modern Business Management

At the first China Management seminar dated in March2008, Chinese academician GUOChong-qing, director of China Administration section from the Ministry Education of NationalNatural Science Foundation, proposed that the establishment of Chinese management should turnfrom preaching according to the western management classics to innovating China management ontheir basis. One of the important paths of innovating China management is to put traditional Chineseculture to modern practice. Meanwhile, the late professor JI Xian-lin from Beijing Universityproposed, China must act according to her own actual situation and have new things in the21stcentury if she wants to develop the humanities social studies. Meanwhile, Professor JI also pointedout, the Chinese linguistics is one of the most ancient all over the world, but the way of studying themethod of language like English, French, and Latin et al. that have turns and twists in their changecannot be used to study the Chinese language which has no turns and twists in her change. Therefore,the Chinese language has to be studied according to its specific condition instead of the approachesused in foreign countries.Examining the development of different disciplines in China from the angle of history, we canfind that Traditional Chinese cultural thought has received wide acceptance in practice today. Amongthem, Traditional Chinese Medicine has developed in a most mature and integrated way, includingcomprehensive, dynamic, harmonious epistemology and problem-solving methodology as well.Besides, epistemology and methodology will be a blend in a mature way. China Medical Science andManagement are both the outcome in Chinese native traditional culture. The two disciplines bothhave the attribute of natural science and social sciences in common. From the perspective ofphilosophy, both have the characteristic of comprehensive idea, integrated idea, and harmonious idea;from the system respect, both belong to the opening macro-system of complex discipline; in theapplication, both belong to the synthetic cross and application discipline; at the overalldecision-making level, both are characterized by the scientific, artistry, moral multiplication.The pharmaceutical saint named SUN Si-miao in the ancient times pointed out in his worksQian Jin Yao Fang that as for the doctors in the ancient times, those good at curing manage tocultivate one's moral character (in modern words means Human Resource and Management) andhave the ability to govern a country; the ordinary (in modern words means Healthy Management)can cure a person for preserving health; the worst can cure one's physique or mental diseases. Sincethe ancient times in the traditional Chinese medicine circle, all think that Huang Di Nei Jing rankstop in all famous medical works in that it is full of wisdom of astronomy, geography, and personnel.Therefore, the classic lasts long, being considered to teach common people forever, to act quickly aswell. The skill mentioned in the great works can be treasure, spreading future generations (plain askZhao to teach a theory). One of the most striking thoughts in Huang Di Nei Jing is the thinking ofTake xiang and Compare lei, and content concerning disease treatment and country government arenot infrequent in it. Take xiang of curing a person, and compare lei of governing a nation; Take xiangof medical science, and Compare lei of a prime minister. Therefore, the dissertation centers on takingxiang of traditional Chinese medicine, and Compare lei of the management. The main contents are asfollows:Based on the above-mentioned background and significance of research, this dissertation, firstexplains the conditions of Take xiang from Take xiang and Compare lei in Huang Di Nei Jing shouldget in accordance with Duixiang, Hexiang and Yingxiang, as well as its mode of thinking, summarizes the progress of Yin Yang and Five Xing Theory made by the scholars in the past20years. Second, according to the philosophy of Yin and Yang of Traditional Chinese Medicine, thisdissertation describes the relevant motivation theory at home and abroad, and points out theweakness of incentives and negative incentives, proposes the concept of Yin incentive and Yangincentive by following the mind Take xiang and Compare lei from Huang Di Nei Jing. There existsuch4combinations that Yin incentive and Yang incentive grow or diminish simultaneously, or onediminishes and the other grows. In accordance with the principle that Yang dominates Yin, and themechanism of striking a balance between Yin and Yang in TCM, this dissertation proposes theharmonious model of adjusting Yin incentives and Yang incentives. Third, this dissertation,according to the background of Five xing theory of TCM, discusses the research on how to set up ahigh-level domestic and foreign-related enterprise management team, proposes forming the seniormanagement team by following the Five xing people in Huang Di Nei Jing, pointing out the seniormanagement team humiliated by the phenomenon of abnormal harmonious adjustment. On thesesbases, this dissertation designs the psychological questionnaire according to the Five xing theory.Research indicates that there exists a law that the more apparent differences in psychologicalcharacteristics of team members, the higher quality of the decision-making team, but the lowerefficiency in decision-making. Namely, there exists an inverse proportional relationship betweendecision making quality and decision-making efficiency. The above research is verified by theanalysis of the psychological characteristics of university students from Hefei University ofTechnology attending the Global Management Challenge——GMC, and those qualified to attend theFinals of the National MBA Competitive Simulation from China national training institutions.Fourth, this dissertation, according to the Yin and Yang theory of TCM, describes the application ofYin Yang and Five Xing to the war and the tactics of winning wars at home and abroad, making adetailed analysis of the basic competitive strategy proposed by the well-known strategist namedMichael Porter. In accordance with the definition in Huang Di Nei Jing, this dissertation establishesthe systematic model of choosing competitive strategies by using the ideological system of Yin Yangand Five Xing, taking TCL in China as an example. On these bases, this dissertation sets up amathematical model which can be quantified based on the proportion of product prices to sales. Onthe quantitative analysis of the instance of the2010National MBA Competitive Simulation fromChina national training institutions, it is concluded that three basic principles must be paid attentionto when choosing the five basic competitive strategies: first of all, enterprises should insist theestablished good competitive strategy; and when changing strategies, enterprises should follow thechange rule of Yin Yang and Five xing in TCM, first choosing the adjacent and synergistic strategiesand then considering the separated and phase grams of strategies. Fifth,this dissertation makes acomparison between the human5dominating functional system and the enterprise's5managementfunction of Yin Yang system according to the definition of Five Zang in Huang Di Nei Jing after thecontents of enterprise diagnosis are introduced from the perspective of traditional Chinese medicineand western medicine. According to Chinese famous academician QIAN Xue-sen's idea that thegiant complex system problem can be solved by applying the integrated analysis from the qualitativeintegrated analysis to quantitative integrated analysis and the Yin Yang and Five Xing mathematicstheory applied in the Traditional Chinese Medicine put forward by MENG Kai-tao, somemathematical expressions concerning the enterprise's five management function system are given.Besides, the diagnosis system and corresponding diagnostic index scale are designed by using the4diagnostic participations in TCM in an attempt to make a fuzzy comprehensive diagnosis for theenterprise. Last but not least, this dissertation holds that everything ought to follow the Growing, lasting, turning, receiving, and storing rules in Huang Di Nei Jing. Under the academic backgroundof Management in China, academic leaders are required to grasp the principle of holding burning butnot killing, lasting but not penalty, turning but not restricting, receiving but not harming, storing butnot restraining when conducting scientific research, delivering education training, implementingmanagement practice, establishing academic organizations and promoting management applications.In brief, the dissertation revolves around the word Tiao, dynamic dialectical thought oftreatment in Huang Di Nei Jing, taking the objective succession but not completely sticking,innovation but not parting form the suzerain for reference. Such topics in enterprise management asemployee's incentives, top management team construction, competitive strategy choices, andmanagement system operations are discussed by using the Yin Yang, Five Xing, Yin Yang and FiveXing, diagnosis theory in Huang Di Nei Jing.