SH Honors "First Penguin" Employees Driving Organizational and Work Innovation...Expands Horizontal Communication

Seoul Housing & Communities Corporation (SH) announced on the 12th that it will promote the spread of horizontal communication and innovation in organizational culture through awards for outstanding employees under the "First Penguin" program and the operation of a "reverse mentoring" scheme.

The First Penguin program is a system that identifies and rewards employees who take the lead in new challenges for organizational culture and work innovation. It was introduced to spread outstanding cases of employees who did not settle for existing practices and instead pursued change throughout the organization.

Four initiatives were selected as outstanding First Penguin cases: establishing a system to strengthen communication with residents, solving problems by innovating business models for difficult projects, transparently sharing the current status of financial operations, and building a customized information service for compensation recipients.

In addition, SH operated a reverse mentoring program in which junior employees served as mentors and senior employees as mentees, in order to narrow generational perception gaps and enhance mutual understanding.

A total of 16 junior and senior employees participated, engaging in work-related activities such as practical artificial intelligence (AI) training and CapCut video editing education, alongside joint experiential activities such as scuba diving and Minhwa (traditional folk painting), thereby enhancing communication and understanding between generations.

SH President Hwang Sangha said, "Small challenges become the starting point that drives change across the entire organization," adding, "We will continue to build an organizational culture in which executives and employees grow together, based on voluntary innovation and mutual respect."

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