Personality And Performance Of The Five Geographic Perspective Based On Oriental Management Research

Traditional Confucianism puts much emphasis on the influence of ethics on individual behaviors. Only through constant pursuit of inner cultivation can individuals"harmonize the family, serve the state, make peace prevail in the world"and finally"illuminate the quintessence of a noble moral character."Hence Chinese culture has always attached great importance to"the ways of conducting oneself". Conducting oneself is the point of departure for all behaviors. As long as the individual knows how to conduct himself/herself, he/she will be able to cope well with daily work and life. With the development of history, such elements as market economy and social changes have brought about changes in notions in Chinese society. In modern Chinese society, what are the relations between conducting oneself and getting things done? Why do these relations exist? How are they interrelated? These issues are very important in Chinese culture background and this study will focus on them.The discussion of conducting oneself and getting things done corresponds to the study of personality and performance in the field of management. The personality that conforms to social criteria is more likely to secure good performances for the individual. And the process of personality acting on performance underscores the significance of "Five predestined guanxi".In the Chinese context of"guanxi-oriented"society, the individual lays much stress on his relationships with other people. In the process of interpersonal interactions, a particular personality tends to procure more and better"Five predestined guanxi", thus enabling the individual to attain better performance. Using oriental management ideas, five predestined guanxi theory, personality theory, performance theory and social capital theory, this paper deeply and systematically research on personality character, performance character, five predestined guanxi in Chinese society and the relations among these concepts. By constructing a Personality-Five predestined guanxi-Performance model and employing the empirical method of questionnaire and case study, this paper tries to test the validity of interdependence between personality and performance in Chinese culture and the cause"Five predestined guanxi"play in using personality to predict performances. Based on empirical analyses, this study further inoculates related theories, builds up a framework of"Five predestined guanxi"and unravels the mechanisms and processes of their effective functioning.This study has distinct Chinese characteristics. The result of this study shall be helpful for corporations in their management work such as recruitment, employment and training. It shall also make a systematic reflection of how the individual should know his own personality, understand the social essence of"guanxi"in China, and better construct, develop, and utilize his/her"Five predestined guanxi". In a deeper sense, both the postulation of such concepts as agreeable personality and contextual performance and the research of interactions between personality, five predestined guanxi and performance, testify to a series of propositions of the Tri-wei thought of oriental management, and demonstrate the moral requirements of the principle of reciprocity. This research is a new attempt to the development of oriental management thought and the innovation of oriental management research methods.