{"id":15459,"date":"2017-07-03T09:00:25","date_gmt":"2017-07-03T13:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=15459"},"modified":"2017-07-03T03:56:47","modified_gmt":"2017-07-03T07:56:47","slug":"why-south-korean-companies-are-giving-employees-western-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2017\/why-south-korean-companies-are-giving-employees-western-names\/","title":{"rendered":"Why South Korean Companies Are Giving Employees Western Names"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/070317_0754_WhySouthKor1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"642\" height=\"482\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Rachel Premack wrote that workers in South Korea are being asked to create new identities for themselves:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In Korean culture it can be rude to refer to people by their first name; honourific titles are used instead.<\/li>\n<li>This contributes to a hierarchical organization that discourages the free flow of ideas.<\/li>\n<li>Management knows it&#8217;d be difficult to overwrite tradition and convince everyone to refer to each other by their real first names \u2013 so they ask them to pick fake western ones instead.<\/li>\n<li>This breakdown in hierarchy is difficult for some to handle \u2013 particularly older employees who benefit from the existing system.<\/li>\n<li>Others dislike the cultural overtures of adapting a western name \u2013 they point out that a person&#8217;s birth name is a core part of their identity and was given to them by their parents.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/economy\/why-korean-companies-are-forcing-their-workers-to-go-by-english-names\/2017\/05\/12\/6a9298fc-3590-11e7-b412-62beef8121f7_story.html?utm_term=.1e721065c296\">The Washington Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"marginalrevolution.com\/\">Marginal Revolution<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rachel Premack wrote that workers in South Korea are being asked to create new identities for themselves: In Korean culture it can be rude to refer to people by their first name; honourific titles are used instead. This contributes to a hierarchical organization that discourages the free flow of ideas. Management knows it&#8217;d be difficult [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15458,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/070317_0754_WhySouthKor1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15459"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15462,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15459\/revisions\/15462"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}