Analysis and Discussion on Overtime Phenomenon From the Perspective of Cross-culture

Abstract

Under globalization, the rapid development of China's economy has attracted a large number of foreign joint ventures to set up companies, and a large number of foreign outstanding talents come to China to work. Because of different social systems, there is a difference in the way they deal with the problem. At present, the phenomenon of overtime work in China is serious, and foreign employees are not adapted to China's high-intensity overtime. In this paper, we used Hofstede's cultural dimension to analyze the 996 working system of 58 city employees, and compared with the overtime work of Chinese foreign invested enterprises, so as to find out the difference of Chinese and foreign overtime culture. Based on the above analysis, we come up with the following suggestions that the foreign employees should take the initiative to adapt themselves to Chinese culture, seek for intersections and common goals with unites, and the organizations should respect the unique culture of foreign employees and develop flexible overtime policies.