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Intercultural Management with 12 Chinese mechanical engineers and their French tutors
This program was essential for me and my colleagues to develop an understanding and appreciation of the French way of work… – Monsieur Wang – Mechanical engineer
Context
With a view to ramping up its plant based in Shanghai, our client, a major French industrial group, seconded 12 engineers from Suzhou and Shanghai from the Chinese subsidiary to France in order to train for a year on the production tools.
These Chinese managers were accompanied on their arrival in France by French tutors from the world R&D center.
The aim was to get this Franco-Chinese team to work efficiently, given that the French engineers needed to optimize their experience with Chinese culture and that most of the Chinese engineers had traveled very little outside China.
solution
Seminar for the French tutors on Chinese culture and values with “Managing a Chinese team”.
Seminar for the Chinese engineers on French culture and values “Working efficiently with the French“.
Learning to collaborate in a Franco-Chinese team with the “Cross Cultural Team building” coaching session.
At stake for
the company
• Encourage team spirit and confidence by mutual recognition of cultural values.
• Optimize relationships and cooperation between the French and Chinese teams.
• Increase and enhance the competence of the Chinese subsidiary by transfer of knowledge from the French tutors.
Benefits
• Awareness by both groups, of cultural imprints and potential areas of misunderstanding. This work has led to an efficient and harmonious collaboration throughout the whole project
• Joint construction of a Franco-Chinese team culture
• The Chinese subsidiary has gained in durability on its local and Asian markets by adapting this technology and by creating a common culture