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Tsann Kuen Group’s Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

How to make an enterprise stand out from the intense market competition is the mainly concern to every enterpriser. In order to keep the competitive edges the corporate culture and the style of management play a very important role in an enterprise. What is enterprise? Enterprise is a term with multiple meanings. One of the meanings is initiative, or purposeful broad plans requiring much coordination. The plans are usually in business or financial applications, and the enterprise is usually considerate the overall operation entity. The role and the objective of an enterprise are producing the production and provide certain service for economic or business purpose. Although the main purpose of enterprise is pursuit the maximum commercial benefit, but it doesn’t mean that everyone who work in an enterprise is pursuit the same purpose. How to manage and adjust different people with different purposes to accomplish the maximum commercial benefit pursuing is become the key factor to the management of enterprise.

In the case Tsann Kuen Group Governance Mode, we can see that the management style of Tsann Kuen Group is a "Family-style” Centralized Controlling. The paternalistic management style is not unique or only exists in Tsann Kuen Group; actually it is quite common in Asian commercial environment especially in Southeast Asia such as China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, etc. This management mode has been in existence for quite a long time, at least more than thousands years. The formation of this management mode has so much to do with Confucian ideology and culture. Confucianism emerged 2,500 years ago and was enriched throughout the country's dynastic history to become an ideology in justifying and safeguarding the hierarchical structure of political and social systems. (Jian Junbo, 2009) Even today the Confucianism still have strong influence in every aspects of people’s daily life in Southeast Asia.

In Tsann Kuen Group, as a traditional family-based enterprise, its early governance had some inherent characteristics. Tsann Kuen Group emphasize paternalistic leadership, as the founder of Tsann Kuen, Tsann Kuen Wu has been the chairman of the board and at the same time, the general manager. In order to manage the whole Group, he is the final decision-maker of its operations and has a power of "One-vote veto". The main character of Tsann Kuen Group is most of main management staff are Tsann Kuen Wu’s relatives. This feature of the management mode is also the main character of paternalistic management style which has certain advantages and obvious disadvantages at the same time. Through this management mode, we can learn how profound the Confucianism affects the business operation. For example, the essence of Confucianism is loyalty. Being loyal to authority is highly recommended and also highly valued. Family is always put in a very high place in Confucianism, if in an enterprise all the important management position are taken by the family members, for example in the Tsann Kuen case, as the chairman of the board and the general manager shouldn’t worry about his management staff will betray him or considerate quit to another competitor’s company any more. Because this action is highly risk, it is not only quit a job that simple; it also means betray the whole family. From this point, the family based enterprise has several advantages. First of all, it will help 本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。