Millennials Lead Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering... Successful Conclusion of the 1st 'Youth Board'

[Asia Economy Reporter Hwang Yoon-joo] The first generation of the ‘DSME Youth Board,’ a signal of Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering’s (DSME) talent management, has successfully completed its one-year activities.

Last July, DSME launched the 'DSME Youth Board,' composed of 12 employees from staff to assistant manager level, to incorporate millennial generation ideas into company policies and establish a two-way communication channel between junior employees and management.

Over the past year, the Youth Board has engaged in various activities including participation in company-wide TFTs such as talent management, reviewing company policies and systems, holding regular meetings with the CEO and executives, attending management meetings, and organizing junior employee meetings.

At the time of the board’s launch, members unanimously expressed their desire to “embrace a vision beyond mere survival.” This reflected their intention to shift from simply “surviving” at work over the past few years to coming to work with a clear “vision.”

To this end, they have served as a channel to directly convey the voices of young employees to management by holding junior meetings over the past year. Notably, they produced and shared interview videos with management that included young employees’ aspirations at the time of joining and their views on the company’s future.

As a result of these various activities, they voiced opinions on important company-wide issues such as improving the evaluation and compensation system and work systems, leading to actual improvements. They also drove many changes in areas that employees can directly feel, such as implementing a half-day leave system, improving work uniforms, and establishing a culture of praise. Additionally, they benchmarked other companies operating junior boards and attended academic societies and conferences related to the 4th Industrial Revolution and AI, sharing diverse related knowledge across the company.

Park Chan-wook, a staff member who served on the first Youth Board, said, “By leveraging the advantage of being able to propose directly to management, we conveyed field opinions to the CEO’s regular meetings or relevant departments so they could be reflected in actual work.” He added, “It is valuable when individual opinions become the company’s future.”

Meanwhile, the company is currently selecting the second generation of the Youth Board and plans to continue operating the Youth Board to communicate with young employees who are the future leaders, using this as a foundation for realizing talent management and developing into a sustainable enterprise.

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