| Doctrine of the golden mean is among the core of Confucianism and traditional managerial thoughts. Its philosophic connotation could be summarized as four principles, namely moderation, integrity, flexibility and harmony. Seen from the perspective of management, the doctrine of the golden mean implies keeping to rules, pursuing harmony, adapting an integrated point of view, maintaining moderation, and seeking flexibility in tactics.Research on the modern view of the doctrine shows that there are opposite understanding, positive and negative. In order to reclaim the doctrine's positive implications, we hereby define the tendency of the golden mean on behaviors as the degree that individual's behaviors be in harmony with the others, himself/herself and his/her circumstances. A person characteristic of the golden mean is behaved as harmony in interaction, stabilization in emotion, adaptability to new environments and flexibility in tactics. On basis of the operative definition, we compile Questionnaire of the tendency of the golden mean on employees' behaviors. We carry out a large-scale survey by the questionnaire and Questionnaire of Organizational Effectiveness. The results are as follows.(1) we exacted three key factors from Questionnaire about the Tendency of the Golden Mean on employees 'behaviors, namely consonance, self-control and ripeness.(2) degree of the tendency of the golden mean on employees' behaviors has some relations with gender, degree of education and position of employees, property of enterprises and culture of parent companies.(3) the tendency of the golden mean on employees' behaviors has a notable and positive effect upon the organizational effectiveness.(4) through analysis of the regression, we found that different factors of the tendency of the golden mean on employees' behaviors have different effects on every factor of the organizational effectiveness.It is of great importance for us to realize the managerial values of the doctrine of the golden mean.
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