Article at a GlanceThe process by which Hyundai Motor Group’s R&D headquarters has developed the 토토사이트 대공원 expert system over the past 16 years provides the following lessons:
1. To prevent the tragedy of filling managerial positions with incompetent individuals, it is necessary to establish a separate career path for technology 토토사이트 대공원s, apart from the managerial career path, to offer diverse growth opportunities to talents.
2. When creating a growth ladder for key talents, it is essential to provide learning opportunities needed at each stage of growth, and guide them to contribute to the company by using the joy of learning as a powerful internal motivation.
3. The qualities of managerial-type leaders and 토토사이트 대공원-type leaders should not be dichotomized into leadership and technical 토토사이트 대공원ise. Managerial-type leaders also need technical 토토사이트 대공원ise, and 토토사이트 대공원-type leaders also require leadership to lead the organization. However, the required level and characteristics vary depending on the role and working style.
As technological advancements accelerate globally and competition intensifies, more companies are developing systems to nurture and support core talents in order to prevent the outflow of technical personnel. A representative example is Samsung Electronics, which has supported outstanding talents in R&D positions since the early 2000s by selecting "Fellows" and "Masters," offering them financial rewards comparable to these of executives and the opportunities to focus solely on 토토사이트 대공원. Many companies motivate the enhancement of technical skills in R&D positions by providing top technicians with financial rewards and honors, granting them authority equivalent to that of managerial executives.
Hyundai Motor Group (hereinafter Hyundai Motor) has similarly appointed individuals who have demonstrated outstanding skills among the 토토사이트 대공원 staff at the Namyang R&D Center as 토토사이트 대공원 Fellows and Senior 토토사이트 대공원 Fellows, giving them executive-level treatment equivalent to the general managerial career path. Furthermore, it is worth noting that Hyundai Motor has systematically structured a growth path for technical talents—Global R&D Expert, Global R&D Master, and 토토사이트 대공원 Fellow—so that more technical talents can pursue continuous growth with the position of 토토사이트 대공원 Fellow as their ultimate goal. It is noteworthy that this system helps relieve technical talents from the pressure of needing to be promoted to managerial positions by selecting them as candidates for team leader positions and allowing them to focus on R&D projects early in their careers, based on their expertise. Moreover, Hyundai Motor provides differentiated support and benefits at each stage of the expert path, enabling them to maximize their capabilities.
Hyundai Motor did not initially design and create the 토토사이트 대공원 Expert System as it exists today; in the early stages of its introduction in 2006, it included only the Global R&D Expert and 토토사이트 대공원 Fellow roles. Additionally, at the beginning, there was not much interest among the members in the unfamiliar career path of a 토토사이트 대공원 expert. However, after 16 years of accumulating operational know-how and identifying problems, the system has been steadily improved, and today, the 토토사이트 대공원 Expert System has become a cradle for nurturing technical leaders who will lead Hyundai's future technologies. Currently, 토토사이트 대공원 Fellows, who have grown within the framework of the 토토사이트 대공원 Expert System, independently carry out 토토사이트 대공원 projects aimed at securing long-term and high-difficulty new technologies that are difficult for operational teams to tackle through 토토사이트 대공원 labs, thereby supporting Hyundai’s mid- to long-term strategy. As of September 2023, there are a total of 135 토토사이트 대공원 experts, including 87 Global R&D Experts, 35 Global R&D Masters, and 13 토토사이트 대공원 Fellows. Although this represents only about 1% of the total 토토사이트 대공원 workforce, when including personnel who have shifted to the managerial track during the process, approximately 430 key talents have grown within the framework of the 토토사이트 대공원 Expert System, contributing not only to Hyundai's advanced technology 토토사이트 대공원 but also to the development of mass production technologies in the field.
DBR analyzed the development process and future challenges of Hyundai Motor’s 토토사이트 대공원 Expert System, based on interviews with Baek Jung-uk, Team Leader, and Jeong Sang-hyuk, Manager of the R&D HR Operations Team in the R&D Division, who plan and operate the system; Kim Se-eun, Senior Manager of the R&D Growth Support Team; and Kim Jae-yeon, 토토사이트 대공원 Fellow who was promoted through the 토토사이트 대공원 Expert path and now leads the Thermal Energy Systems 토토사이트 대공원 Lab.