Watching China from the inside: Team player (1)

The majority of Chinese people don't know how to be a good team player, <em>in the other way</em>1*, there is no good team in China.
A month ago I met a nice British lady at in Moscow when we were catching the same flight to London. She's teaching chemistry in Beijing. During our short stay of one hour, she told me her problem with Chinese colleagues . She couldn't understand why they always keep everything to themselves. If they discovered a new teaching method, they would keep it as a secret 2*  so that at the end of semester their students would get a better score, and therefore, a better bonus for themselves. 'I always want to tell them that the school isn't about your bonus, it's about how our students get a better education.' She said with emotions.

She wasn't the only one who thought so. One of my friends who's an Italian has been running a company in Beijing for nine years. Every new crew he hired would be sent to Italy for three months training. He thinks it's the best way to get a good employee. According to his words him, there is always an intense atmosphere surrounding everyone in the office. Everyone seems to have so many secrets and constantly compete with each other. It takes lot's of energy to deal with it. Eight years ago if a girl was crying in his office and complained about another colleague bullying her, he would try to sort the situation out. Now? He will just say, yeah, I don't have time for this crap, go back to your work and deal with it yourself. He said the Chinese seemed never know how to benefit the whole team instead of themselves.

At my work, you can also see things happen like this. Two girls (I don't know why it's always girls) were talking about something, then they tend to whisper, after a while, they stop talking and go out to the street, where they think the conversation can continue. There is only one thing wrong with it: the conversation is about work.

1* do you mean 'on the other hand' to offer a different alternative? The meaning seems to be a consequence so ti would be more like ' therefore', 'as a result'..

2* as a secret is fine but I think 'keep it secret' is a more usual collocation.

Watching China from inside: Team player (1)

The majority of Chinese people don't know how to be a good team player, in the other way, there is no good team in China.
A month ago I met a nice British lady at Moscow when we were catching the same flight to London. She's teaching chemistry in Beijing. During our short stay of one hour, she told me her problem with Chinese colleagues . She couldn't understand why they always keep everything to themselves. If they discovered a new teaching method, they would keep it as a secret so that at the end of semester their students would get better score, therefore, better bonus for themselves. 'I always want to tell them that the school isn't about your bonus, it's about how our student get better education.' She said with emotions.

She wasn't the only one who thought so. One of my friends who's an Italian has been running a company in Beijing for nine years. Every new crew he hired would be sent to Italy for three months training. He thinks it's the best way to get a good employee. According to his words, there is always an intense atmosphere surrounding in the office. Everyone seems to have so many secrets and constantly compete with each other. It takes lots of energy to deal with it. Eight years ago if a girl crying in his office and complain about another colleague bullying her, he would try to sort the situation out. Now? He will just say, yeah, I don't have time for this crap, go back to your work and deal with it yourself. He said Chinese seemed never know how to benefit the whole team instead of themselves.

At my work, you can also see things happen like this. Two girls (I don't know why it's always girls) were talking about something, then they tend to whisper, after a while, they stop talking and go out to the street, where they think the conversation can continue. There is only one thing wrong with it: the conversation is about work.