In China workers' high expectations of their enterprise managers are not based on personal choise, but are the result of their involuntary heavy dependence on their employers. This is reflected in a whole set of systems within enterprises, which have serious drawbacks for production relations, including the managers' extended authority over workers' occupational and non-occupational lives, workers' decreased opportunities and expectations of their own participation in the business of the enterprises. Consequently, workers' level of initiative in production activities is reduced and the positive significance of work is diminishing in their lives.