What HRs should learn from the “Iron Hammer” Lang Ping?
The Chinese women’s volleyball team won the Olympic volleyball gold again after 12 years, meanwhile Lang Ping the tough “Iron Hammer” once again became a major focus of media discussion. The spirit of Lang Ping not only glorifies in the arena, but also applies to the HRs who wants to be a good spokesperson for the enterprise and staff.
The Chinese women’s volleyball team won the Olympic volleyball gold again after 12 years, meanwhile Lang Ping the tough “Iron Hammer” once again became a major focus of media discussion. The spirit of Lang Ping not only glorifies in the arena, but also applies to the HRs who wants to be a good spokesperson for the enterprise and staff.
- Not sticking to formalities for talented people
The “Iron Hammer” implemented major reforms after being the coach of the national team, which include selecting the best players from national junior team into national team, unconventionally promoting a batch of young “fresh meat” like Yuan Xinyue, and Zhang Changning who even jumped three levels, and then became the main force of the national team. This can be called bold action in a system of seniority and age.
Extending to the enterprise, the HRs usually have a set of standards to measure against - the job description for the applicants; demanding work experience, education, age, and even the enterprise nature when finishing recruitment plan. However, they unwilling to break the chains and understand the applicants who are young and have potential with an open mind.
- Implementing reform and activating the team
The bold reforms implemented by the “Iron Hammer” are an indispensable factor for the Chinese team which ultimately won them the championship. The young players like Zhu Ting and Zhang Changning who are born before or after 1995 awarded appreciations on the pitch with good technologies and a placid mind.
In the same way, for HRs, management of post-90s generation the new force has become the biggest test of the present stage after the advent of the Internet Era. They pay more attention to the realization of self value compared the posted-70s / 80s generation. To solve the generational personality characteristic dilemma, HRs should be individualized and put them in a position where they can develop their own advantages, let them grow up in a more resilient and dynamic atmosphere with less restrictions and more freedom, and provide them a certain degree of independent decision-making.
- Hand in hand with company
The “Iron Hammer” is well versed in European and American volleyball, she can swallow anything and everything on the basis of retaining the traditional technologies of Chinese women's Volleyball, and has changed physical problems which troubled national team for many years by using the dynamic monitoring method of physical fitness of foreign players, thus making Chinese women's Volleyball in the forefront of global volleyball.
The HRs also need to learn and draw on quality management methods when formulating the enterprise management regulations. The first step to achieving this goal is to actively understand the company's business, to understand the actual needs of staffs. Transpositional consideration as well as full discussion and communication can unite the staffs and promote the upgrading of enterprise business.