Ulsan City Executes Organizational Restructuring in First Half of 2023... Focus on Internal Strengthening Without Staff Increase

Citizen Safety, Pledge Implementation Function, Organizational Efficiency, and Strengthening Competitiveness by Job Series

‘Ordinance on the Establishment of Administrative Organizations’ to be Enforced on July 1 After Council Approval

Ulsan City announced the legislative notice for the "Ordinance Amendment on the Establishment of Administrative Organizations" for the first half of 2023 organizational restructuring on May 4.

Ulsan Organizational Restructuring Plan.

The main points of the organizational restructuring are ▲ citizen safety ▲ strengthening the functions to promote the 8th term of the elected mayor’s pledges ▲ organizational efficiency and enhancing competitiveness by job series.

In particular, this organizational restructuring will focus on internal strengthening without increasing personnel, similar to the first and second restructuring phases of the 8th term of the elected mayor.

▲ Organizational restructuring for citizen safety

For effective disaster response, disaster types have been subdivided into natural disasters and social disasters.

The Citizen Safety Office, which was previously composed of the Safety General Division, Disaster Management Division, Industrial Safety Division, and Civil Life Judicial Police Division, will be reorganized into the Safety General Division, Natural Disaster Division, Social Disaster Industrial Safety Division, and Civil Life Judicial Police Division.

A new “On-site Response Team,” a dedicated day and night disaster command unit, will be established at the Southern Fire Station to build a department-level constant dispatch system for disaster accidents.

▲ Organizational restructuring to strengthen the promotion functions of the 8th term elected mayor’s pledges

To create Ulsan as a fun city full of representative symbols and attractions, and to support investment companies in Ulsan such as Hyundai Motor Company, S-Oil, and Korea Zinc, a “Pledge Promotion Team” will be newly established.

The Pledge Promotion Team will consist of a dedicated team for creating Ulsan’s representative symbols, an existing Hyundai Motor support team, and a corporate on-site support team reinforced with personnel from the petrochemical company support task force (TF).

▲ Restructuring for organizational efficiency and strengthening competitiveness by job series

Declining, decreasing, similar, and overlapping functions will be consolidated, reorganizing the Administrative Bureau from a system of 5 divisions and 21 teams to 4 divisions and 20 teams.

Key changes include integrating the Civil Service Division into the Autonomous Administration Division and splitting the existing single team handling contract work within the Accounting Division into two teams to facilitate smooth contract operations.

Additionally, the Talent Education Division will be renamed the Talent Development Division.

Furthermore, to induce competition within the public service and establish a performance-oriented system, the number of multiple job series for grade 5 managerial positions will be significantly expanded by 25, and for grade 6 and below by 45.

This restructuring will be implemented without any increase or decrease in personnel in accordance with the Ministry of the Interior and Safety’s policy of freezing personnel numbers, keeping the total number of city government employees at 3,469 unchanged.

An official from Ulsan City stated, “This restructuring plan was prepared with a focus on realizing citizen safety as the highest priority value, accelerating the promotion of the 8th term elected mayor’s pledges, and strengthening the organization without increasing personnel.”

This “Ordinance Amendment” was legislatively announced on May 4, will be approved by the Ulsan City Council, and will take effect on July 1.

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