Motivating Chinese Employees of Construction Projects in Algeria

DOI

10.2991/isbcd-18.2018.57How to use a DOI?

Keywords

motivation; Chinese employees; Chinese culture

Abstract

The globalization nowadays over the world has made the world a small global village where the domestic and international employees working together side by side in the same team, the international organizations depend on multinational teams created to achieve the organization objectives and challenges. As result, today’s global managers need to understand and apply effective motivation tools for their multinational teams. Motivation as the main tool to improve the performance of the employees became a challenging mission for the managers. Several studies and theories about motivation tried to identify the main factors for motivation, which can improve the performance of the employees and motivating people to perform with high productivity and affectivity. The theories came out of several motivation factors, this factors are classified differently or similarly from one theory to the other. But these theories all conducted in the west what made it inapplicable in other places in the world, or in multinational projects. This study contains a literature review to the known theories and the current studies about motivating employees, and a brief literature review for the Islamic motivation for employees conducted in some Muslim countries. Due to the diversity of the employee's culture and background, the motivation factors cannot have the same importance for all teamwork. This research aims to understand the differences between motivating employees from two deferent nationalities and cultures in the same project, the study conducted the case of Chinese and Algerian employees working in construction projects in Algerian.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Hadjira Merrah
AU  - Yan Li
PY  - 2018/10
DA  - 2018/10
TI  - Motivating Chinese Employees of Construction Projects in Algeria
BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Asian B&R Conference on International Business Cooperation (ISBCD 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 286
EP  - 291
SN  - 2352-5428
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/isbcd-18.2018.57
DO  - 10.2991/isbcd-18.2018.57
ID  - Merrah2018/10
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