The Chinese Cultural System: Cultural Management.

Culture is the “the collective programming of the mind distinguish the members of one group or category of people from another” (Hofstede, 2011). The definition of culture tend to gives us the ability to understand, interact people for other culture that may be drastically different from our own. The 21-century may be known as the century of the “global world”. The growth of interdependence and cooperation among countries, and international companies, do not claim that the cultural difference is decreasing. Instead, Culture difference increasingly impact on most aspects of people’ activities. Regarding business management, it is clear that most of the international companies cannot make more profit because of neglect of cultural differences. On the one hand, the globalization has created opportunities for corporations to cooperate among countries. On the other hand, it also has brought a series of concern about how to effectively manage partnerships with different culture.

China, as the largest trading countries and probably the largest nation being invested from other counties, has clearly been a vital participant because of the globalization during the past twenty years (Zhang, 2003). A large number of international companies invest China to seek opportunities to make a profit， especially American companies.（Liu 2002） While there exist wide differences between China and USA regard to their economic political social and personal characters dimensions. It is important to understand culture about other counties for resolving business relationships. With the increasing of cross-cultural business, knowing other culture is also helpful to manage their foreigner employees. To clearly classify the difference between China and American, Hofstede’ four cultural dimensions will be used including Power Distance, Individualism/Collectivism, Masculinity/Femininity, Uncertainty Avoidance and Long Term Orientation. Five cultural dimensions of Hofstede are used to measure the