"Creating a Horizontal Organizational Culture" ... Busan Office of Education Promotes Innovation in Communication and Collaboration Organizational Culture

Busan Office of Education.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Hwang Du-yeol] The Busan Metropolitan Office of Education is promoting an ‘organizational culture innovation centered on communication and collaboration’ to create working conditions where employees can work happily.

The organizational culture innovation will be carried out through 10 tasks in three areas to create a communicative and cooperative organizational culture: ▲Changing the working culture: spreading a culture of mutual respect ▲Work Together: communication and collaboration ▲Work Diet: work-life balance.

The Changing the Working Culture area will implement five tasks: operating Communication and Empathy Days, producing and distributing promotional materials for organizational culture improvement, creating a self-diagnosis checklist for organizational culture improvement, efforts for mutual respect, and a senior-junior perspective-taking survey.

The tasks are promoted to induce improved awareness of organizational culture through the spread of mutual respect and empathy culture.

The effort for mutual respect aims to spread a horizontal organizational culture by having all employees of the education office use honorifics such as “Mr./Ms. ○○” on the 2nd and 4th Mondays of every week.

The Work Together area aims to improve working methods by removing barriers between departments and teams, and will promote three tasks: discovering and promoting administrative collaboration tasks, operating the Edu-Mate system, and running the Collaboration Thanks Point system.

The ‘Collaboration Thanks Point system’ is designed to identify employees who actively collaborate by sending collaboration points through the K-EduFine knowledge management system to employees who provide materials or support events during work promotion. Employees with high accumulated collaboration points will be given incentives at the end of the year.

The Work Diet area will promote two tasks: operating the Work Innovation Support Group and establishing a Work and Life Balance (WLB) culture.

The Work Innovation Support Group, which has been operating since 2020, will continue this year and aims to reduce employees’ workload through the development of work automation programs.

By ensuring employees’ right to rest through measures such as ‘autonomous and flexible vacation use,’ ‘on-time leaving and reduction of overtime,’ ‘minimizing work-related contact after leaving work,’ and ‘creating a healthy dining culture,’ the office plans to build an organizational culture where work and family life can coexist.

Superintendent Kim Seok-jun said, “Organizational culture innovation is to broaden understanding between generations and spread a culture of mutual respect within the organization,” adding, “We will transform the conventional and authoritarian organizational culture into a horizontal organizational culture so that employees can fully demonstrate their creativity and capabilities.”

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