東洋思想和管理

Abstract

Nowadays the corporate environment has become more and more competitive in that national boundaries have blurred from the globalization of production and consumption, and the consumers` power has grown, and different industries have converged. Moreover Korean companies has been under double pressure from the western advanced enterprises` retaliation and the newly Chinese companies` takeoff. In order to survive modem competitive global business war, Korean companies have made every effort to improve capabilities and get ready for the coming future. So a lot of Korean companies are importing the western management tools and methods. However, many Korean companies has actually failed in improving productivity and adapting themselves to the western management techniques, because the core principle of the Oriental management differs with that of the western management and the difference has brought about the unexpected side-effects in doing execution. The eastern civilization and thought has affected the way eastern people live, think, communicate, and manage companies for many centuries. Especially the western thought has influenced in making the fixed idea that work is bad and leisure is good, and has organized functionalism. These western management philosophy has caused a few problems such as management myopia, lack of cooperation, and conflict between employers and employees. These kinds of weaknesses can be cured, or at least made up for by Oriental management. Finally it is meaningful that this paper can help the Korean companies to do a selective benchmarking of the western management techniques lest they should throw away all the advantage of our Korean way of management.