Dilemma of a manager
Should the manager let the teammates leave?
Mr. C (the manager) joined the ‘H’ company on Jun, 2009. ‘H’ company is a big group company in the chemical fiber industry in China. ‘H’ Company is a private family company and it has 5 factories located in different province in China. Altogether ‘H’ company has more than 5,000 employees. ‘H’ company uses the raw material cotton linter to produce cotton pulp and then sell the cotton pulp in China. Nearly 80% of the raw material cotton linter was purchased in the domestic market, round 20% cotton linter is imported from overseas. Mr. C’s job is to build a team and import the raw material for the group.
For sure, Mr. C has the cotton linter import experience before and he knows how to run the business very well. The raw material has to be imported from the main cotton growing area such as India, U.S.A, Uzbekistan (Russian speaking), Benin (French speaking) and Syria (Arabic Speaking). So Mr. C has to find the right persons who can speak Russian, French, Arabic and English, meanwhile, it’s better for them to have the international trade working experience.
You can imagine that it is really a difficult job for Mr. C to find these suitable teammates. Because ‘H’ company is a family group, the boss does not want to pay too much for the basic salary per month for these import stuff, he promise to give high percentage commission based on the import quantity (it is reasonable payment method in this industry). Now Mr. C has to give a big picture to the teammates that they will import a lot of quantity raw material from worldwide and they will get very well payment if they join the company.
After 3months, Mr. C ‘s team building was completed, he got 2 Russian speaking teammates, 2 French speaking, 2 English speaking and 1 Arabic speaking teammates. After 2 weeks education about the products and business, the import work started to run. From Oct. 2009 till Jun, 2010, it is a good opportunity for the cotton linter
Mr. C (the manager) joined the ‘H’ company on Jun, 2009. ‘H’ company is a big group company in the chemical fiber industry in China. ‘H’ Company is a private family company and it has 5 factories located in different province in China. Altogether ‘H’ company has more than 5,000 employees. ‘H’ company uses the raw material cotton linter to produce cotton pulp and then sell the cotton pulp in China. Nearly 80% of the raw material cotton linter was purchased in the domestic market, round 20% cotton linter is imported from overseas. Mr. C’s job is to build a team and import the raw material for the group.
For sure, Mr. C has the cotton linter import experience before and he knows how to run the business very well. The raw material has to be imported from the main cotton growing area such as India, U.S.A, Uzbekistan (Russian speaking), Benin (French speaking) and Syria (Arabic Speaking). So Mr. C has to find the right persons who can speak Russian, French, Arabic and English, meanwhile, it’s better for them to have the international trade working experience.
You can imagine that it is really a difficult job for Mr. C to find these suitable teammates. Because ‘H’ company is a family group, the boss does not want to pay too much for the basic salary per month for these import stuff, he promise to give high percentage commission based on the import quantity (it is reasonable payment method in this industry). Now Mr. C has to give a big picture to the teammates that they will import a lot of quantity raw material from worldwide and they will get very well payment if they join the company.
After 3months, Mr. C ‘s team building was completed, he got 2 Russian speaking teammates, 2 French speaking, 2 English speaking and 1 Arabic speaking teammates. After 2 weeks education about the products and business, the import work started to run. From Oct. 2009 till Jun, 2010, it is a good opportunity for the cotton linter