[real-time] a dispute caused by the tooling (Figure)

What kind of tooling work staff wear to work, a seemingly small problem can actually cause the company to discuss up and down, this kind of thing to the knowledgeable Suning Holdings Group Chairman Zhang Jindong also feel surprised, but such a thing It happened.

Suning Holding Group used to be a traditional home appliance retail chain company and currently has more than 100,000 employees worldwide. Zhang Jindong has experienced numerous transformations and major decisions as a founder of the company and is also very busy on weekdays. However, he has to convene company-level meetings to discuss staffing issues.

Coincidentally, Ping An Group also encountered similar problems, and internal disputes over the dress issue of some of the new employees were indisputable.

Why do these companies frequently encounter tooling disputes. What kind of phenomenon is reflected in the small tooling?

Is this serious?

"This does not meet the programmer culture, not the Internet gene."

The cause of the problem lies in the transformation of traditional enterprises. In recent years, Suning has been seeking to meet the challenges of the Internet era, and the business has continued to go offline. Therefore, a large number of Internet professionals have been recruited, including a large number of programmers and technology developers. They came to the company on the first day of work and had a fierce collision with the company’s system.

“What? Must wear a suit? This is not possible. We have always been working in T-shirts. This is a programmer culture.” A Suning Holding Group programmer recalled his own reaction at the time.

The reply of the group's human resources department is rational and brief: "This is the company's cultural system. Please implement it. Violations will be imposed."

Zhang Jindong is an entrepreneur who advocates strict management. He requires employees to wear suits and shoes during work hours. He thinks this is a work style and a good image of the company. He is pragmatic and has a decisive force within the company, but this time, the tough corporate management encountered an unusually tough response from new employees.

Many programmers cannot accept or are unable to adapt to the rules of wearing suits to go to work every day. The reasons given are varied, but one common reason is that they do not meet the programmer's culture, not the Internet genes. Even rising to traditional businesses is too conservative and not conducive to the strategic level of transformation.

This made the management of the group feel puzzled. The first reaction was: Is it so serious? Some people even suggested that if they do not want to do it, they will leave and recruit people again. However, Zhang Jindong felt that this matter was not so simple. He wanted the relevant departments to understand it.

After investigation, they found that if we persist in the traditional system and do not do it, there is indeed the possibility of passive conservation. Because in the Internet circle, there are indeed a lot of excellent Internet talents who are unwilling to accept uniform dress code.

They learned that the culture of Internet companies from the Silicon Valley in the United States has formed a tradition among Internet practitioners. If you hold on to the old system and do not respect the ideas and culture of your employees, you will face the risk of not recruiting qualified individuals with unique personality and comprehensive quality. The most needed for business transformation is talent.

After repeated considerations, Suning's management and new employees agreed that special policies for special departments of Internet strategy-related departments may not wear suits every day.

Wearing a collision without wearing a suit

"Creativity is not entirely inspired by external forms. There is no need to rely solely on clothes to position yourself."

Coincidentally, Ping An Group also encountered similar problems. The relevant person in charge of the company’s insurance business told similar stories to Suning. During the transition to internet finance business, the company recruited a large number of internet talents. As financial and insurance companies want to give their customers a rigorous and dignified image, traditional business employees wear business wear. However, many people in the Internet business are casual wear. In this case, the group must no longer rent an office space to accommodate those “casual wear employees”.

"Wearing a suit does not seem like a trivial matter, but it embodies the collision and integration of culture between traditional and emerging companies," said the person in charge.

"Doesn't you buy a bunch of snacks for your employees to eat Internet companies? Don't give employees ergonomic seats for Internet companies? Don't give designers a 5K screen Mac Internet company?" A programmer told reporters Slightly ridiculously.

The reporter learned that due to Internet companies’ emphasis on technical R&D talents, these employees do not contact external customers, face code and product models, and serve customers with strong mobility, so the dress code is not high. Another major part of the product design staff needs to work overtime and break the shackles of thinking, to rule out compliance. In this context, Internet practitioners are more active and unwilling to be bound.

Some iconic leaders at home and abroad that are highly regarded by the Internet circles, such as Bill Gates and Jobs, used to wear jeans casual clothes in formal occasions. As time went by, this unique culture precipitated.

In fact, Internet companies have different views on whether to exclude suits. "I don't think that creativity is entirely inspired by external forms. There is no need to rely solely on clothes to position ourselves. Enterprises must respect the corporate system and should not stand alone." An engineer from Tencent said: "Even even technical personnel, the future It is also necessary to train yourself in many ways and be prepared to attend formal business establishments.”

Some business executives believe that from this point of view, advocating formal dress code does not impede individuality and does not allow the pursuit of beauty. On the contrary, it can enable everyone to more easily reflect their own personality. Under the commonality of social aesthetics, choosing the style that suits oneself can better show the beauty of commonness and individuality.

“The dress code is actually a kind of etiquette specification that can reflect their professional attitude and mutual respect. It can help employees to quickly enter their own roles and assume their own responsibilities.” Mr Xiao, who works in the human resources department of a central enterprise Say.

During the interview, some employees believed that corporate culture should focus on promoting the development of the enterprise and respecting employees' wishes so as to truly arouse employees' sense of belonging and identity. The group of programmers is unique and should respect their ideas.

The fusion of tradition and innovation

"We should embrace change, but we should not abandon good and reasonable traditions."

In the actual visit, the reporter found that more relaxed dress code requirements for startup companies, emerging Internet companies. In the traditional manufacturing industry and the real economy, employees are required to wear standard tooling for safety and work requirements, and office personnel must also unify shirts and trousers.

Mr. Xiao said that some jobs must wear overalls. This is the requirement for safe production. However, the office staff is in a special situation. In general, the company also requires a formal dress. It seems that there are rules and it is easy for people to have a sense of trust.

Such a requirement is often questioned when it comes to the introduction of Internet talent, lack of innovation and not enough tolerance.

"The understanding of the programmer's culture is also our understanding of the transformation of the Internet." The relevant staff of the Suning Holding Group told reporters: "But both cultures have advantages and disadvantages and need to be mutually integrated."

Just as Suning Holding Group allows internet talents to dress differently from traditional business units, their business also advances at two different levels online and offline, and integrates with each other. "The change is certain, and it must be thorough, but it does not mean that the traditional advantage will be lost," said the worker.

"We should embrace change, but we should not abandon the excellent and reasonable traditions." A manager of the Suning Group told the reporter: "In a small tooling, we must consider the special cultural demands of employees, and we must also consider the company's unified culture and execution. Things are small, but the success and transformation of a large company is composed of details. The details that affect the feelings of the employees can not be particularly important." (China National Engineering Network reporter Che Hui)

Extended reading

Dress those things

According to the "New York Times" report, Apple seems to focus only on product development, and its CEO Tim Cook's dress style is controversial. Apple’s former CEO Steve Jobs is often dressed in the high collar shirt of Miyake (Japanese fashion brand), Reeves's jeans and New Balance sports shoes, this style of dress has become his fixed style.

According to reports, in order to develop Apple Watch, Apple has introduced new employees from prestigious companies such as Yves Saint Laurent (Famous French luxury brand), Burberry (British traditional luxury brand) and TAG Heuer (Swiss watches). The company also began to pay attention to fashion, but Cook's style does not match corporate culture.

For a better comparison, The New York Times also cited the dressing style of CEOs of other technology companies. For example, the CEO of the United States Yahoo Inc. Marissa Mayer has publicly expressed that she likes high-end brands such as Armani, and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadera loves suits.

Some commentators believe that when everyone tries to express themselves through clothing and clothing, when "personality" has been seen everywhere, "ordinary" becomes fresh and fashionable.

A domestic report from the “Southeast Morning Post” triggered a heated discussion among netizens. "Short skirts and shorts should be 15cm or less in length on the knee." "No nails left," "No dandruff on the hair." ... This is the content of the "dressing order" of a company employee in Quanzhou.

This "dressing order" was immediately transmitted to the Internet and attracted the attention of a large number of netizens. Some netizens expressed support for the company's regulations; many netizens said that the company's "shorts" requirement was "very wonderful" and they spit on the road: This is also called Shorts?

Some netizens believe that companies require employees to dress code. The most effective method is to allocate uniform uniforms to employees and stipulate that they must wear work uniforms during work hours. If it is not unified by working uniforms, it is indeed harsh to require staff shorts and short skirts to be no more than a few centimetres in length in the knees. (Li Bing)