Shoe Industry Confrontation: How To Retain The New Generation Of Workers

Yesterday afternoon, from Italy.

Coincidentally, at the recently concluded Shijie footwear development forum, Charlie, President of the global sourcing center from the United States, also advised Dongguan business owners: "if we do not strengthen scientific management and enhance the use value of employees, Dongguan shoe enterprises will be completely lost to other Southeast Asian countries within five years."

Long Yongtu, China's economic authority, agreed.

Although labor-intensive enterprises in Dongguan are generally short of labor, the low efficiency of labor force, waste of personnel and poor management are still common.

If we do not strengthen scientific management and enhance the use value of employees, Dongguan shoe enterprises will lose to other Southeast Asian countries in five years.

Status quo: three employees only one person's work?

Berri is a permanent representative of Italy, a large purchasing company in China. Yesterday he made a special trip to Dongguan to inspect the environment of Christmas gift purchase.

Berri said, the factories here only know that they are short of work, constantly recruit people, and let the workers continue to run away, which is a waste of human resources.

"What I understand is that factory bosses only know to recruit people desperately, but these important things that can bring benefit skills training, scientific management plan, and high-yield automatic equipment are almost ignored."

He thinks that shortsightedness is here.

Berri said that according to scientific management concept, the production capacity of these factories in Dongguan can at least increase by two times.

"That is to say, the three workers in the labor-intensive enterprises are only working now.

Prediction: only five years of competitiveness?

In fact, highly similar to Berri's statement, chal, director of the US global sourcing center, said at a recent world footwear forum that Dongguan's manufacturing industry is currently facing competition from Southeast Asian countries such as Vietnam and Thailand, and that the high cost and inefficient use of labor force are the main problems facing Dongguan Enterprises.

He even ventured to predict that, according to the general management mode of Dongguan enterprises at present, the labor intensive enterprises will lose competitiveness in the most five years, so that they can not be foothold in Dongguan.

Charlie thinks, Dongguan and China's shoe enterprises to develop the root is very good, but must pay attention to the management of labor efficiency, and the flow of staff control problems, if not to hold these two major aspects of the problem, Dongguan shoes in five years will lose the survival of the machine.

"In the past, the labor force was cheap, and the business owners did not pay attention to the improvement of labor efficiency. Now the labor force is not easy to find, so efficiency is very important, followed by the problem of too much employee mobility. These two problems must be solved."

Charlie said.

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Enterprises: agree with their views, but it is difficult to operate.

For foreign buyers, the reporter interviewed some of the traditional manufacturing industries in Dongguan. They agreed with the conclusion of foreign businessmen, but most of them believed that the actual operation was rather difficult. One of the main reasons was that they were afraid of helping others to do their wedding dresses.

"I can take money to send my employees to big enterprises, especially to manage advanced foreign companies for further education."

Mr. Gao, the boss of a big wool mill, said that the demand for mature mechanic is huge, and the competition between them is fierce. A small company spends money on training a group of technicians. Unless they are given good treatment and good development prospects, they will not be able to quit jobs for a long time.

The sailang garment factory, located in dau Kau, is famous for its automation in the same industry. Li Chengzhi, a senior executive of the company, told reporters that the most scientific way is to replace the manual parts with manual equipment, and then to train the workers through automated routine operation.

More business leaders believe that the way to improve employees' effectiveness is not unilateral, but requires a better overall environment.

"Environmental reasons cause enterprises to pay attention to immediate interests, which is certainly not good, but no one is willing to do anything that is uncertain."

A toy business owner answered this question.

Long Yongtu: support for foreign businessmen's conclusion

For Charlie and others, Long Yongtu, the Vice Minister of the Ministry of foreign trade and economic cooperation and chief negotiator of WTO, fully agreed with the interview that he believed that the age of using workers as machines was over.

It is necessary to improve the living environment and welfare environment of industrial workers. He believes that stabilizing industrial workers' groups is very important for the employment of a place.

The problem of the shortage of workers and the effectiveness of the workers in Dongguan was also mentioned in the first collective Dongguan political activities conducted by the consulate officials of last week. In the event, Dongguan foreign businessmen suggested that the lack of work in Dongguan was a common phenomenon, but for foreign companies, the lack of skilled workers was even more prominent.

In response, the responsible department official explained that in recent years, wages in the mainland have increased, and some shoe companies have moved inland, causing a large number of labor force to return in Dongguan. Therefore, enterprises recruiting front-line employees may have to pay higher wages and provide a better environment, but we should see that most of the new employees are new generation workers with good technical education.

Some enterprises said that how to retain the new generation of workers and develop their skills potential is more important.