Bank staff beaten by trainer for their ‘lack of motivation’
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A motivational trainer, upset at the low scores in a session with rural bank employees, handed out beatings for eight of them, shaved the men’s heads and cut the women’s hair.
“Spanking was a training model I have been exploring for many years,” the trainer, Jiang Yang, said on his microblog as he absolved the bank’s leadership of direct responsibility.
However, the local banking oversight body described the training as “improper” and said it had suspended the bank’s chairman and a deputy governor and told Jiang to make a public apology.
Changzhi Zhangze Rural Commercial Bank, a lender in north China’s Shanxi Province, had hired a Shanghai-based company to run a “performance breakthrough” course, the oversight body said.
After a day of training for more than 200 staff, Jiang had demanded explanations from the eight employees with the lowest scores.
One responded: “I’m not hard on myself.” Another shouted: “I didn’t make a breakthrough!” while a third blamed lack of teamwork.
Jiang then told them to prepare to be beaten, and strode up and down the row of offenders several times, whacking them loudly on their behinds with a stick.
Later, he cut the women’s hair and shaved the men’s heads, according to media reports and www.czlook.com, the website of the Changzhi city government news office.
The punishment, which was captured in a mobile phone video and circulated on social media, touched off a wave of criticism.
“Since when does beating employees become a way of raising performance?” asked one Weibo user, Denny Tangmashi.
Some called for similar punishments for the bankers and the trainer.
“They need to be beaten with a stick!” wrote Edison Li Jingyu.
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