A motivational trainer in China, upset at the low scores in a session with rural bank employees, handed out beatings to eight of them, shaved the heads of the men and cut the hair of the women."Spanking was a training model I have been exploring for many years," said trainer Jiang Yangon his microblog, absolving the bank's leadership of direct responsibility.Changzhi Zhangze Rural Commercial Bank, a lender in China's northern Shanxi province, hired a Shanghai-based training company to run a "performance breakthrough" course, a local rural banking oversight body said on a government-run website.After a day of training last weekend for a staff complement of more than 200, Jiang demanded explanations from the eight employees with the weakest scores.One said: "I'm not hard on myself." Another shouted: "I didn't make a breakthrough!" A third blamed a lack of teamwork.He asked them to prepare to be beaten and strode up and down the row of offenders several times, beating them loudly on their behinds with a stick.Later he cut the women's hair and shaved the men's heads, it was reported on czlook.com, the website of the Changzhi city government news office.The punishment, captured on a cellphone video, circulated on Chinese social media and drew some criticism."Since when does beating employees become a way of raising performance?" asked one Weibo user, Denny Tangmashi.The oversight body described the training as "improper", adding that it had suspended the bank's chairman and a deputy governor and told Jiang to make a public apology...