Chapter 654 - End of Year Promotions (2) – Part 1
President Song said, “I have several things that I’d like to discuss with you, sir. The first thing is about changing our organizational structure. The position of the product quality team is vague. During the Mulpasaneop era, it reported to the plant manager, and at some point, it was placed under the research center as well. Currently, the product quality team is reporting to me—the president—for convenience. But, I think it should be an independent department, just like the research center and the production department.”
“Hmm.”
“Moreover, we now have to maintain our status as a five-star quality certified facility. And, the role of the product quality team is critical for it. Therefore, I suggest that we promote the product quality team’s manager to a director, so it doesn’t have to report to another department.”
“The manager at the product quality team has been in the manager position for only two years.”
“That’s right. For that reason, I was thinking that maybe we can promote the senior manager at the research center to the product quality team’s director, and relocate the current product quality team’s manager to the research center.”
“It will result in those two people switching teams. Do you think that won’t cause any problem?”
“I believe that having different work experience at a young age is a precious experience individually. Also, it’s good for the company as well. Through the job rotations, we will learn those employees’ strengths and weaknesses while they gain more knowledge of the company as a whole. That way, we will grow and find our next general directors.”
“What’s the second thing that you wanted to discuss with me?”
“This one was actually from the plant manager—Director Jong-Suk Park. Now, we have an additional production site B where most of the assembly work is done. We want to divide the production department into two—manufacturing site and assembly site. And, we promote the current production supervisor to manager and place him to the production department two which is the assembly site. He has enough experience and years of working with us at the production site, and his work performance is excellent as it was evaluated by Director Park.”
“We will then have two managers in the production department?”
“Yes. And two managers of the production department one and two will report to Director Park.”
“Hmm.”
“We can have three supervisors under those two managers and have them supervise three teams at the production department. We can divide it into three teams as an extruding team, molding team, and testing team, or we can simply call them as team one, team two, and team three.”
“Sounds good. I agree with the two suggestions that you just made. Do you have a third one?”
“Yes. We will soon have our financial document concluding this year. We made roughly 5 billion won net profit this year after tax.”
“Hmm, I see.”
“Sure. Let’s bring other executive officers with us.”
“Mr. Adam Castler left earlier; he had a dentist appointment. Director Yoon left for a client site this morning. The chief research officer is in the office.”
“Let’s bring him with us to lunch then.”
Director Kim made a call to the chief research officer who was holding a temporary position.
“Brother? It’s me, Director Kim. We are going to a good restaurant to have grilled fish dishes. Why don’t you join us?”
Gun-Ho, Director Kim, and the chief research officer got in Gun-Ho’s Bentley and headed out to the restaurant. When they were passing the front gate, the security officer came out and gave a military salute to the three high-ranking officers in the company.
The restaurant that Director Kim recommended was a luxurious restaurant located downtown Asan City. Each booth seat was divided by a partition that was made of fabric. It was neat.
“What do we want to have?”
“I think we should try different types of grilled fish, and we can share them. That way, we can taste several different fish.”
Director Kim ordered mackerel, tuna, and mackerel pike.
The food came out with lots of complementary side dishes including eel on a small plate.
“I guess this is for you, brother. You need to boost your stamina.”
Director Kim pushed the eel dish to the chief research officer’s side with a smile.
“What’s wrong with you? You are caring for me now, huh?”
The chief research officer whose hair was fully covered by gray hair said.
“I am the only one in the company who cares for you, brother. You didn’t know that?”
Director Kim teased the old man.
Gun-Ho laughed and chipped in, “How long have you two worked together since the Mulpasaneop era?”
Director Kim replied as he looked at the chief research officer’s face, “It has been about twenty years since I’ve known him.”
The chief research officer added, “I joined Mulpasaneop right after I obtained my Ph.D., so I guess it’s about twenty years as you said.”
The main dishes came out. The chief research officer knew how to eat a grilled fish neatly. He held one side of the fish and pulled out the bone at once. He looked skillful.
“That’s the way how to neatly make a whole grilled fish ready to eat. I didn’t know that.”
Director Kim teased the chief research officer again, “I guess that our chief research officer has been researching how to eat a fish neatly, rather than researching our product.”