Engineer culture: why doesn't bat call the boss

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BAT Employees don't call the boss , Don't call your name , But with classmates 、 flower , This is hypocrisy ？ Or carry forward the martial arts culture ？ There's another secret ？ Why don't European and American companies do this ？ This article will take you Into Science , Explore the truth .

BAT The way of address

• tencent ： English name , for example Pony、Mujihuang（ Hen yellow ）;
• Ali ： flower , For example, the wind is clear 、 Xiaoyao Zi 、 Lin daiyu ;
• Bytes to beat ： name + classmate , For example, Yiming students ;

Tencent intranet community discussion English name

Official explanation

Tencent's explanation ：

Tencent didn't call 「X total 」 The habit of , Internet companies pay attention to Flat organizational structure , One of the key words of Tencent culture is 「 Equality and respect 」. therefore , In order to weaken the concept of superior and subordinate , The English name appeared so easily and happily .

Explanation of byte runout ：

In order to avoid the suppression of the sense of form to the grass-roots nodes , We Weaken the hierarchy , The first is that such a title is not allowed ——「 The eldest brother 」、「 So and so total 」、「 teacher 」, Once this name comes out , Many ideas can't emerge . They may be inclined to listen first 「 teacher 」 Any comments , I can't say it first .

Management theory

In Chinese culture ,「 identify by name the person 」 yes An act of disrespect . Call your elders by name , Can feel this discomfort .

surname , Born of man . Virgin of ancient god , Feel heaven and have children , So it is called the son of heaven .——《 Said. Chinese characters 》

therefore , Chinese people often use these names ：

• surname + Position / identity ： Ma Zong 、 Miss Yang 、 Uncle Zhang / Aunt Zhang , Show respect ;
• surname + Brother / The elder sister ： Sister Zhang 、 Brother Wang , Some Jianghu gas , The smell of gangs ;
• The old + surname ： Lao zhang 、 Lao Li , Call people older than yourself at the same level to show kindness , When the superior calls the subordinate, it means kindness with hierarchical pressure , For example, the leader greets the guard ;
• Small + surname ： petty thief 、 Xiao Wang , It means kindness with grade pressure , For example, the leader greets the driver ;

There is a problem with these titles ： Power distance index （power distance index, Abbreviation for PDI）—— At home 、 company 、 Acceptance of unequal distribution of power by lower ranking members of organizations such as communities .

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Russian 、 China's power distance index is very high , South Korea is not low , Has led to major 「 Korean Air 801 Crash 」.

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The co pilot hinted ：「 Do you think it's raining harder ？ In this place ？」 In fact, it means ： A plane Captain , You decide to make a visual landing without alternatives , And the weather outside is very bad . The random engineer hinted ：「 A plane Captain , Weather radar has played a big role .」 In fact, it means ： This evening is not suitable for visual landing . Look at the weather radar ： There's danger ahead . ——《 Alien species 》 Malcolm · Malcolm Gladwell

As a result, the plane crashed and 228 People have been killed , The South Korean side invited David from Delta Airlines to reform , First measure , Is to comprehensively improve the English level of all crew members , The specified working language is English , Get rid of the honorific problem in Korean .

It can be seen that 「 Power distance index 」 High will lead to ： High pressure 、 It's hard to speak freely .

In the army, etc 「 Pay attention to obedience 」 In your organization , Honorific titles are appropriate , such as 「 Company commander 」、「 chief 」, Because the goal is clear , Military orders are like a mountain , Do it at the cost of your life .

And in business , In especial 「 Focus on Innovation 」 Technology company of , Innovation often has no known goals , Using the name of no grade pressure helps to reduce 「 Power distance index 」, Promote equal communication , Burst of creativity .

That's why Chinese companies don't call the boss 、 Reasons for not calling names , And the U.S. 、 English speaking countries such as Britain don't have this problem , Just call your name .

3 How to choose one scheme

As the management of the company , At the beginning of its establishment, we have to face choices ： What kind of address scheme is suitable for our company ？

English name ： It's for foreigners , Not for the Chinese . It is applicable to companies where employees generally master spoken English , It is often an international team or doing sea business , You need to have frequent meetings with foreigners 、 email , Formal English name is required .

Most Chinese companies don't hold meetings with foreigners , Employees generally do not speak English , If you choose an English name , all sorts of strange things , Colleagues can't remember , No one shouted , Lost meaning , And if you use that name to contact foreigners , Will be laughed at . In this case, it is recommended not to use English names .

MY English name - This cool English name website Microblogging 2017-12-14 19:00 The United States 《 Washington post 》 Once published an article saying , The Unconventional English names used by people in China and other parts of East Asia have always been interesting and funny to foreigners . Generally speaking , It's best to avoid names related to food , such as Candy（ candy ）、Lolly（ lollipop ） perhaps Sugar（ sugar ）, Such names are often referred to as 「 Mentally retarded girl 」 perhaps 「 taxi dancer 」 Name .

flower ： With Chinese culture , It's a good plan , But maybe I'm embarrassed to shout , It's a little hard to remember （ In particular, many engineers are not sociable , It takes months to remember the names of everyone in the group ）, It depends on the company .

name + classmate ： The simplest and easy to remember , Recommended .

summary

「 Unbalanced total 」 yes 「 Engineer culture ： Equal communication 」 Part of .

When you start your own business or act as a manager, you should pay attention to , Don't indulge in being called boss / In the boss's power pleasure , Suppressed the innovation atmosphere of the team , Affect the company's recruitment attraction .

Reference material

• Can tolerate these wonderful English names , Tencent is also quite hard - Official account of Tencent
• Zhang Yiming ： do CEO Avoid rational conceit – Source Code Capital
• 《 Alien species 》 Trial reading ： The first 7 Chapter The ethnic theory of the plane crash (douban.com)
• International product design ：Hofstede Cultural dimension of | Everyone is a product manager (woshipm.com)

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