Enter Huawei! Huawei's corporate structure from the perspective of internal employees

Due to the ban on Huawei by the United States, Trump's "promotion" of Huawei in international occasions, and the overwhelming coverage of domestic and foreign media, Huawei has become famous, making many people curious about Huawei: "What kind of company is Huawei?" "What is Huawei's corporate structure?"

Regarding the issue of Huawei's corporate structure, an internal employee posted an article on Zhihu to reveal the secrets:

"Huawei's management is actually quite special. Such a large company has never been listed. It insists on an employee stock ownership structure, allowing employees to treat the company as their home. Huawei is not listed and is a company with restricted shares.

The shareholders' meeting is the highest authority in the company and makes decisions on matters such as the company's capital allocation, profit distribution, and the election of directors and supervisors.

Next is the board of directors. The board of directors is the highest responsible body for the company's strategy, business management and customer satisfaction, and leads the company's progress. Huawei's chairman adopts a rotation system, with directors taking turns to serve as chairman. The rotating chairman is the leader of the company during his term, and the term of office of the rotating chairman is 6 months.

At this point, some people may ask, what is the difference between Huawei's chairman and rotating chairman?

As mentioned above, the rotating chairman is the highest leader of the company during his term of office, leading the board of directors and the executive board. As for the position of chairman, it is actually a formal chairman, a symbolic function, and serves as the legal representative to the outside world.

Simply put, the chairman is responsible for the employee representative meeting and is biased towards the rights and interests of employees. The rotating chairman is responsible for managing the company's daily affairs and leading the company towards its goals.

Huawei's CFO is Meng Wanzhou, who we are all familiar with recently. She is the company's financial director and also a director of the company. As for Ren Zhengfei, he is also a director of the company and has been the company's CEO. Different directors basically have different functions, representing one aspect of the company and being the leader of this aspect.

Finally, Huawei currently has 17 board members. In addition to the chairman, rotating chairman, and CFO, the most senior president is Ren Zhengfei. The other presidents can be said to be responsible for the leadership of a department. However, being a director of Huawei's board of directors means that one is already sitting at the core of Huawei's power. "