Conception of HR

Promotion is based upon excellence, not appearance
It is a Chinese idiom that implies providing equitable competition without concerning about any elements."horse" refers to the talent.
Promotion is based upon excellence, not appearance ---- Haier's Rule of its HR Development
During our HR development, we insist on innovation of notion, innovation of system. We keep creating a kind of environment of fair, just and straightforward, and build up a set of mechanism to develop personnel potentialities. Therefore, while we purchase our enterprise's objectives, we can offer each individual a developing space to realize his owe value. " How much you can be involved, we will provide you a corresponding platform."
1. "Each individual is a talent, and promotion is based upon excellence, not appearance." ---- Providing a fair, just and open competition environment in fact is the competition of talents. Staffs lead to the enterprise in success. If an enterprise has of most talented and high-qualified people, it will win in the competition. Haier's HR development initially based on "Each individual is a talent", "firstly training people and then creating a brand" to change the function of most of traditional HR departments, and finally built up a HR mechanism and a policy with the function of, how to research and develop individual potentiality, which is different to traditional HR function, but concerning about who should be trained, and who should be promoted to the position of leadership. We provide our staffs 3 kinds of career designing: 1. For administrators; 2. For professionals; 3. For workers. Each of them has one direction towards his promotion.
2. "Who is incumbent who shall be inspected; promotion is based on competition; One's position shall be changed after his expired term of office." ---- We need to inspect and control the incumbent administrators. There is such a rule in Haier's HR management: the so called "if you give one person rights, you shall definitely trust him, and if you suspect him, you won't give him any rights", which is a definitely deny of market economy. In market economy, the essential relationship is driven by benefits. Trust or distrust your staff, or evaluate one staff only based on your private emotions or only based on his personnel capacity won't be a proper method, and maybe will have negative effects in success of an enterprise. Therefore, Haier makes a rule like "Who is incumbent who shall be inspected; promotion is based on competition; position shall be changed after one's expired term of office".
3. "Usually more deeply dolphin dives, more highly it jumps."---- Mechanism of promotion and demotion. When we promote a cadre to a high-level position, we won't him immediately inaugurate, however, we assign him to work in related department as an ordinary role; sometimes, even if he is already been playing a important role in the department, due to his lack of such experience, we will let him lower his position and work as a common staff. Sometimes, one person is very experienced, but only lack of integrated and coordinated skills, we will assign him to certain department to have so-called internship. However, it is tough for a cadre under such high pressure, on the other hand, he is finally trained and cultivated his integrated skills.
4. Elimination Quota---- That means in certain period of time and within certain division, we set a quota to lay off staffs in percent. It can be cruel, however, it is good for an enterprise to purchase its long-term strategy. In Haier, there is no such saying "I cannot give any achievement to the enterprise, however my time and physical works shall be took into account." If you cannot offer your best efforts, you probably make a fault. Therefore, in such period of time, within certain division, we follow out our elimination quota in proportion.