Adventist People-power for Managerial
Positions: Who should we hire in South Korea?
Some wisdom will be given here. Notice that I have not majorly worked for
the Adventist Establishment during my
career but for Government Universities. And also in the Private Sector
Education. That is my experience and that is my understanding of Labor
Conditions for Hiring in the South Korean and Japan setting.
Question: Who should we hire for our managerial Administrative and Teaching
positions at Sahmyook University?
Question: Who should not be hired in the South Korean Union? 1. if the wives or
spouse of the person to be hired, is
living outside and cannot join in South Korea, do not hire. 2. who does not
have a valid Korean Citizen-Card, do not hire
for any Union Institution including Sahmyook University, anyone, Korean or
other,
---Foreign Citizenship only holders should not be given managerial positions. Why? ---They
do not have the same velocity in their passion and empathy and sympathy with
the locals even if they can speak the language or were citizens years before. ---Their
tax systems are different. ---Their
property size and privileges and rights and benefits are different. ---Their
poverty benefits by their foreign government is not the same as the South Korean
benefits. ---Their
retirement benefits in their country is different than in South Korea. ---They will not have the same understanding
of the needs and dreams and stress that their citizens in comparison are
experiencing. ---Their
phone-call is constantly back home in their own country to “keep business as
usual” there and they do not understand properly the South Korean need impact
of the citizens, poor, retired, jobless, handicapped locally. 3. If some were
hired already in those positions, do not rehire after the period. Weed
them out. Hire them on a two-year contract basis only. 4. They [No Korean Citizenship Worker] should not be in a position where they can affect or put in effect
any policy of the Institution or University.
5. Their input and
contribution must always be supervised and evaluated from all angles
to see what the local impact or consequences can or will be. 6. Some
Foreigner Citizen holders receive a 100% double pension benefit pay system. Every
dollar they put in will be supplied a dollar from the South Korean government.
This is not all countries but there are those listed countries. 7. There are
well-trained Korean citizens with adequate education and experience that can do
the functions just as well. 8. Sahmyook
University should not be just a dumping-yard for Korean-speaking Foreigners
with no South Korean Citizenship Card to get a job after been terminated in their own
country, regardless of how high the position was in that country.
It
is my understanding that if this wisdom is followed, much of our problems regarding
biblical values, doctrines, objectives, requirements, education content,
evangelistic objectives and missiological results will be better. Similar
sentiments were known already to Gottfried Oosterwahl for the African
Continent. Right?