Mater Guan Ethical Thoughts Of Economical Management Research

Guan Zhong lived in the Spring and Autumn Period,which was regarded as the axlecenter of Chinese culture.During this kind of big political and economic transformationperiod, Guan, with a pragmatic manner, combined the excellent thought of Shangdynasty’s culture with Qi dynasty’s and put them into the practice of Qi’s economicalmanagement, and obtained a huge success. The successful achievement earned him animportant place in China’s history as a remarkable reformer, statesman, thinker andeconomist of the time. The reforms and governing strategy, which he advocated andcarried out, could find their illustration in the book Master Guan. The book was mainlyconsisted of Guan Zhong’s political practice and the governing thought and managementwisdom of the dynasties before Qin. And at the same time it also contains abundantethical thoughts of economical managementFirst, the idea of the Road and Breath Integrated as its foundation of philosophy.And this is foundation of Mater Guan Ethical thoughts of economical management.Second,the theory of human nature was embodied by “Advantages while avoidingdisadvantages”. And this is cornerstone of its thought.The essence goes through the book in two lines. One is the value which heelaborated as People-oriented-to make people have benefits, become rich, and be theowner of the country. Another is the value orientation that courtesy and respect will behighlighted after having eaten to one’s fill and that loyalty and interest are both of highlyimportance.Master Guan apparently contains ethic thought in the economical managementwhich manifests the benevolent management, the harmonious management, the fairmanagement, the efficiency management and the model management. These ideas in itspractice of governing the country, have been widely applied.These ethics which can bring about importmant enlightment to how to strengthenethical controls in the macroscopic economical management and the construction ofethical responsiblities in the microscopic economical management. It has a wide rangeof inspiration in promoting the harmonious development of society and modern economic construction.