Human-oriented spirits enrich modern sports fields

Fudan Professor GU Xiaoming from the Department of History presented a lecture of Olympics and sports modern humanity spirits to school s EMBA students on August 22 evening, as part of the Humanity Fudan series of lectures.

He firstly directed the students on a retrospective view of how athletes, no matter from East or West part of the world, had got through restrictions commonly set by religious beliefs or traditional ethics, in terms of individual freedom which had been sacrificed for political and religious causes, and the likes.

Under such circumstances, the sports people had acted as physical tools of sorts, rather than involved to enjoy their playing.

And now, the sports industry of China is going through a crucial period in transition, and our athletes have transformed from I am asked to play to I want to play of some kind in terms of their attitudes toward their sports professions.

Along with happenings of the changes in athletic attitudes in China, public concerns have been increasing about their own health, and government spending has continued to increase too in recent years, to upgrade the public sporting facilities.

If that human-oriented philosophy is applied into the business world of today, Professor GU said, employers have to pay more attention to the individual physical comforts their employees are concerned about in workplaces.

The more details employers are willing to listen to in this regard, the more positive signs that they care about employees emotions in work, he added.

While even in today s world where requests for more freedom both physically and ideologically have been increasingly justified, the Chinese people have manifested how they are willing to sacrifice their such freedom for the convenience of national efforts to deal with massive events or catastrophic happenings, like in Beijing Olympic Games or in the aftermath of 5/12 Sichuan Earthquake.