Discussion Of The Essence And The Innovation Of Eastern Management Philosophy From "Spirit Of Shanxi Merchant"

Jin is called for short for "Shanxi Province". The Jin Merchant usually made a general reference Shanxi merchant in old times. Every Shanxi merchant who is engaged in the manual production, traffic and trade, the commodity exchange and financial service maybe called Jin Merchant. The Jin Merchant is the earliest Chinese merchant whose history may trace far to the Spring and Autumn Period Warring States time. Shanxi was one of Five Kingdoms in Spring and Autumn Period, the north was neighboring with the minority tribe, some common people lived together with different minorities such as Rung and Di and Jin is called"the place where near Hu". Because living together with different nationalities, the Jin person often exchange goods ships from the area south of Yellow River with them and this has enlivened Jin's trade. In the Spring and Autumn Period time many famous merchants are from Shanxi , the very respectable deified Guan Yu is also Shanxi people."the Jin person is good at trading"the reputation remoteness, has existed since ancient times. In Ming and Qing Dynasties, the Jin business prosperous time, the period, with their abundant fund strength, the advanced management and operation, the outstanding commercial culture, developed the management domain and the sphere of action broadly, the salt, the iron, the cotton and kapok, the cloth, the superficial knowledge, the silk, the tea, the finance and so on, spreads from China to European, Japanese, Southeast Asia and the Arab, They dominated domestic business 500 years. The Shanxi merchant has created one special spirit in the competitive capital activity, called"Jin Merchant spirit". Jin Merchant spirit"is characteristic mainly in starting a career in business, the diligent and thrifty, to pay great attention to credit, to be strict in the management, unites efforts, to dare to innovate. With this kind of energetic characteristic, they succeed in business in Ming and Qing Dynasties. Once they controlled the national trade and finance, many businesses man were as rich as a country. In the course of studying the development of Jin business, we admire the spirit of unyielding, honor, dare to innovate, moreover we want to know what is the root of this kind of spirit and how does this spirit inherit in modern China.Thinking about"the Jin Merchants spirit", it is easy to discover that spirit stems from the traditional Eastern management in China. It manifested the essence Eastern management philosophy's make self and other people honesty. Because the different social system, the traditional culture background and person's value between East and West, the definition of management of China is different. The essence that the West traditional culture is one kind of advocation scientific principle"the rationality tool", which pays great attention the self-value and the pursue government by law"the wisdom"the culture. But China traditional culture is one kind of advocation humane spirit, ethics morals and the doctrine of harmonious"the value rationality"the culture. It emphasis"the self-restraint and return to ritual"moral culture. Traditional culture's difference between East and West decides and affects different understanding to the philosophy of management. Therefore, the Chinese made management philosophy"the human study"according to their own value idea. Although alls of the various schools of thought about concept of management is different, but to the essence of management philosophy is actually the same, namely thought the Eastern management philosophy is one"humanist""studying of the person". The Eastern management philosophy stressed that the management is begins in"make oneself honest", but finally"make others honest". This kind of management concept infiltrate China society, affected and infected a generations by generations, It was in the middle of our thought culture essential, the core manifestation. Therefore, as the culture representative of advanced the commerce——"the Jin Merchant spirit", also manifesting essence of Eastern management philosophy"humanist""make oneself and others honest"everywhere.the idea"make oneself honors"performance in the commercial trade is honest as the base, the credit is the base, keep one's word, pursuit for credit standing; loyal to the country, loyal to the nationality, loyal to the career, exactly speaking, in uniting efforts altogether taking pleasure in serving others; humanity, follows"never cheat"in business. Remember the virtue and morality while meeting the benefit but not forget it; industrious, thrifty and so on. It is precisely this kind of idea in Jin merchants'heart that makes the spirit to be prosperous. Although the Jin Merchant emphasizes"make oneself honest""self-control", they never neglect the discussion on pattern and method on"make others honest". They initiate the way of personnel"only choose the virtuous","bold to authorization"; Meet the times'need, uses the correct drive method, implements"the person as stock system"; Perfecting the management system, conduct according to the system, never jobbery; Pays great attention the new person education on "business morality"and so on. All these trained and conduct generations of Shanxi merchant, caused the Confucianism develop in ShanxiThus it can be seen that"the Jin merchant spirit"has fully manifested the essence Eastern management philosophy, it is the extending of Eastern management philosophy in commerce. Since"The Jin Merchant spirit"has obtained the huge success in certain time, these years it become the study object of Eastern management philosophy, the scholars attempts to find the successful management way which meet the needs of time from"the Jin merchant", This will provide the basis for exploration of innovation and development of East management philosophy in future.Therefore, base on the analysis of background that Jin Merchants lived, it is necessary to develop and rich the research of Eastern management philosophy content's."Humanist","take righteousness as first","peaces is precious","to govern by non-interference", should become the research content of Eastern management philosophy, becomes the essence and soul that manifests the Eastern characteristic.In addition, besides Eastern management philosophy's research, we should advocate both"East"and"the West","activity"and"the inactivity","the flexibility"and"the rigidity", We cannot copy the West directly or abandon them directly. What we should do is to seeks for combining site and the growing point for the Western scientific management method and the modern market economy, to understand"the Jin merchant spirit"by the modern annotation with new spirit of the age and take the East management concept' as the essence, the soul. This will enabled the modern people to obtain the wisdom and the enlightenment, innovated the Eastern management philosophy, make it to become energetic power to perfect the market economy and the impetus for the development of society.