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Korean Cultural Heritage and Its Influence on Implementing Empowerment and Self-Directed Teams
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Park, Won-Woo Lee, Sung-Min |
| Copyright Year | 2008 |
| Abstract | Despite its unprecedented economic growth rate in the past and its present global economic status, South Korea’s blue-collar workers’ job satisfaction level and productivity are ranked as the lowest among OECD countries. This phenomenon became a critical obstacle for the mid- and logn-term development of Korean manufacturing companies. Empowerment and the used of self-directed teams are critical necessities for the increase of employee satisfaction and productivity as well as for the corporate development. this paper, based on the case comparison of real-life experience of the author both in American and in Korean companies, describes why the empowerment and self-directed teams are difficult to be implemented in South Korea. Furthermore, this paper also describes how one can overcome the obstacles in South Korean firms. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://s-space.snu.ac.kr/bitstream/10371/34410/1/06%EB%B0%95%EC%9B%90%EC%9A%B0_%EC%9D%B4%EC%84%B1%EB%AF%BC_%EC%82%AC.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
