Experts from the Development Research Center of the State Council said recently that it has become a pressing issue for Chinese companies to set up a human resource management system that can meet both corporate and human development needs.

"Any business wanting a promising future can't afford not to have a system that is both necessary for a company to reach its organizational goals and for an employee to realize his values and ideals," said Dr. Lin Zeyan with the center.

A year-long human resource system condition investigation in over 2,100 Chinese businesses by the center found that more than 70 percent of the enterprises haven't paid appropriate attention to the building of mechanisms handling employees' career management.

The report also criticized some businesses for trying to control their employees.

According to analysts, during the current transitional period, many Chinese enterprises remain stuck to the traditional human resource management model that focuses on daily affairs instead of actively figuring out ways to uncover employees' potentials.

"But there are more and more well-educated employees entering businesses recently. They are independent individuals who strongly want to control their own fates and realize their ideals and values," said Lin.

"Businesses should echo to set up a human resource system that more reacts to their needs."

The report concluded that businesses only hurt the employees' interests if they over-emphasize their own interests.

The motives for most domestic enterprises to upgrade their human resource systems are usually pushed by external factors such as listing or operational need.

"If an enterprise always acts this way, it will find it hard to collect the talent it needs," it said.

Lin worries that, to date, many domestic enterprises remain not fully aware of the importance of the efforts they should make to boost their human resource systems.

"If the situation remains unchanged, the enterprises would suffer deadly defects in their core competitiveness," said Lin. "Entrepreneurs should pay adequate attention to this."

But there are actually ways through which an enterprise and its employees could develop in a win-win way, according to Lin.

"Mutual culture recognition should be realized between the enterprises and employees, in so doing both can develop in a sound way," he said.