For a long time now it has been clear that the Chinese school system and that the children in China seem to excel when it comes to schooling and education. However a recent study has shown that beyond this point this is where the Chinese population’s excellent results seem to peter out, as they do not seem to excel in the work place or take up a lot of management roles in the corporate world.
The study has shown that even though Chinese Americans make up around 5% of the population of The United States that this figure is not transferred into the working world. Only 0.3% of the Chinese Americans become corporate managers, less than 1% are on the board or belong to an upper management role and 2% are college presidents.
The Chinese people that took part in the study also pointed out that there seems to be a “bamboo ceiling” when it comes to workers that come from China. It has also been eluded to that this problem even exists in China. Multinationals that set up in China appear to shy away from employing Chinese workers in management positions and instead choose to employ expats staff to fill vacant manager roles.
It seems that the Chinese are putting this down to racism as they are quite rightly pointing out that the skills that made them do so well in the school environment are not lost as they get older, so this must prove that there are other factors at work which are making them lose out on management roles both in China and the in the rest of the world.

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