Expatriates & Migration II

September 15th, 2010


Expatriates & Migration II

Keeping with the topic of Expatriates and migration, I’m going to add some concepts to make this topic much clearer. I’ll also make a brief summary of the presentation about The role of workers and migrant workers in South Korea.
The last objective of this blog is to answer the question made by the teacher about the cultural difference between North Korea and South Korea.

First of all I’m going to add some concepts about expatriates and migration based on the teacher’s explanation:

Hostile Reception
Within this concept there is one really important which is xenophobic that is the fear for foreign people. According to the explanation, human’s mind and people prefer to deal with what they know. The social invisibility is another concept that is related with this topic, because the society and the governments ignore many times immigrants, which causes many times troubles within the societies. Also there is a political, economical and legal abandonment, which do not offer them many guarantees in the country in which they are staying. Another really important and which is really common within the countries that receive many immigrants is the discrimination.

Informal Organizations
One issue that is really common within the countries, are the informal organizations, which are “organizations that operate in illegality but not with antisocial objectives. They had in mind legal goals.” These organizations are characterized because, they don’t have high technology, there is not a well-established organizational structure and finally they are not legally registered and constituted.
Within these informal organizations are the informal workers who are the ones that are self-employees, sometimes they are unpaid family employees and for many other reasons.
Some elements that characterize the informal organizations and workers are the high or low entry or exit of barriers, the abuse of power, the irregular salaries for workers, the illegal control of certain activities, the lack of control by the government, etc.
The informal jobs and organizations cause many social problems, some of them are: they don’t pay taxes, no warranties for products and workers and, social discomfort among the people.

Finally the reasons that cause these informal situations are the migrations, the absence of the government, unemployment and, the lack of legal and financial opportunities for the people.

Before answering the teacher’s question I’m going to make a brief summary about the presentation The role of workers and migrant workers in South Korea.
First of all I’ll begin explaining about the role of the workers which means that now a days workers have to be well prepared, achieving all their activities, goals and using all their skill with the purpose of being effective. Another concept to take in account is the migrant worker “is a person who is engaged or has been engaged in a remunerated activity in a State of which he or she is not a national” that goes to another country trying to find a better opportunity of job.
Before explaining the traditional management in South Korea, I’ll say that South Korea is located in the southern of the Korean peninsula; its economy is based on industries, agriculture, automobile productions, etc.

Traditional Management Style
The Korean management style is well influenced by the Japanese style. Its management is characterized for being planned, organized, controlled, led and motivate which allow them to have a successful management.

Organizational Culture
Within the Koreans organizations, workers develop good relations among them and also with their colleagues. Also is really important to spend a lot of time to create good relations.
Something that allows having good work relations between employees and manager is spending some times among them, with the purpose to consolidate these relations.

Business Protocol
As I have explained in previous blogs, the business protocol is how people should behave when doing business with others colleagues, trying to adapt to the customs, traditions and protocols during making business.
Based on the presentation for South Koreans is really important to respect their Korean etiquette, including respect for positions and hierarchy; taking in account all their manners, how to greet, talk and the right dresses to use.

To end this blog I’m going to answer the question made by the teacher about, why is there a cultural difference between North and South Korea?

The main reason that caused this cultural difference was the Korean War. First of all, because South Korea was influenced by the democracy which gave them the freedom and liberty that allow to that society to be more prosperous and with an open mind; while North Korea was influenced by the communism of the URSS, which created among their country a hostile space that is close to the rest of the world.
It was from this war that began this cultural difference, there are differences of thoughts, religions, cultures, manners and ideologies between the two societies. Based on the article of Rit Nosotro “What caused the differences between North and South Korea?” the North Korean immigrant that receives South Korea are treated in a different way because they are not related with that new system, most of the time they are discriminated because between them they have dialect differences. Their religious thoughts are different, because North Koreans have their President as a godlike figure, while most of South Koreans accept the existence of God.


Bibliography
Teacher’s explanation and presentation.

Team’s presentation and explanation “The role of workers and migrant workers in South Korea.”

NOSOTRO, Rit. The differences between North and South Korea. (Online: http://www.hyperhistory.net/apwh/essays/cot/t3w30korea.htm).

Image Informal Organization. Design Studio. Informal Organizational Structure. (Online: http://organizationalstructure.department-k.com/informalorganizationalstructure/)

Image Cultural Differences. Thoughtpick’s blog. (Online: http://blog.thoughtpick.com/2010/03/10-ways-to-manage-your-social-media-staff.html)

Migrants Worker’s image. MailOnline. SLACK, James. Labour finally admits minuscule benefit each migrant brings to Britain - just 58p a week. (Online: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-553548/Labour-finally-admits-minuscule-benefit-migrant-brings-Britain--just-58p-week.html)