As trade barriers begin to crumble under the recently signed World Trade Organisation (WTO) agreement and Viet Nam begins interacting more in the global economy, the demand for qualified, competent managers in the domestic market will surge.
The Ministry of Planning and Investment recently revealed that in a survey of 63,000 companies nation-wide 43.3 per cent of managers do not have a high school diploma.
Researchers also found that only 2.99 per cent of business owners have attained a postgraduate degree.
The survey concluded that companies had low standards in employee recruitment, particularly when choosing a chief executive officer (CEO), which as a result limited companies in their administrative capacity.
Public entities face a similar problem. Ho Duc Hung, dean at the Economic Development Research Institute, says that the Government has a system aimed at hiring qualified general managers at five State-owned enterprises.
The system, though, is not widely applied.
A common problem in the private sector, according to the institute, is that there is no clear separation between ownership and management. The CEOs are often the owners, which can make it difficult to impose necessary changes.
According to the institute's survey of 2,000 business owners in HCM City, around 65 per cent of respondents were previously leaders or officials at State-owned companies, and around 15 per cent were from families that have been involved in commerce for generations.
The survey also found that only a small percentage of CEOs earned their position solely on their achievements and abilities.
According to Vietnam-works.com, the availability of competent and qualified CEOs can only meet 30 to 40 per cent of overall demand. Therefore, training CEOs and other senior managers is considered an urgent task for Viet Nam, especially after the WTO accession.
More than 1,000 senior managers, mainly from private, joint-stock and foreign companies, participated in the "CEOs in a flat world " seminar, which was held on October 1 in HCM City.
Interest in the seminar, according to event participant, was evidence that building human capital and educating senior managers is an important topic for Vietnamese enterprises.
The "flat world" concept is about globalisation when political, economic and social barriers are removed, allowing for greater integration.
Ta Thi My Linh, general director at SGN Logistic Viet Nam, says that Vietnamese CEOs "are about to get on a crowded highway" where they do not understand all of the traffic laws.
Accidents, such as Vietnam Airlines' 5 million euros lawsuit, happen because enterprises do not understand the rules of the international market.
She also suggests that senior executives learn international laws or hire legal consultants, and intensify co-operation with foreign partners to better their understanding of global trade.
Full Version: Viet Nam faces shortage of qualified, educated execs
In Pol Pot's Kampuchea and in Mao's PRC, there was no shortage of qualified, competent managers because the demand for them was zero.
As long as we are experiencing a shortage of skilled personnel, we are on the right track - We should always be under that kind of pressure. If we have a surplus of skilled personnel, then it's time to worry about whether there is any insanity in the government's economic policies.
As long as we are experiencing a shortage of skilled personnel, we are on the right track - We should always be under that kind of pressure. If we have a surplus of skilled personnel, then it's time to worry about whether there is any insanity in the government's economic policies.
I would consider this a good thing as it would influence the government to encourage the people to focus more on education.
This may also encourage the government to make education more widely available to the people.
This may also encourage the government to make education more widely available to the people.
I don't know where to begin.
The reason I laugh is bcoz as a lowly and unimaginative Viet, I succumbed to peer preassure and family pressure to go to tech field.
Like many other lowly and unimaginative Viets, we were driven to become engineers, doctors or other tech related fields... Later, when I've been in real world, I realized that many other asians also have prob like us... We work hard but those arseholes with business degree are the ppl who get the the big money.
All this time, I've only met 2 Viet Green Belts... Never even heard about any Viet Black Belt out there... We need to start to do like the Indians... They now have alot of competent midle managers and even Master Black Belts.
Well, that's not surprising. If people have good education, they will seek for better job opportunities else where.
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I don't know where to begin.
The reason I laugh is bcoz as a lowly and unimaginative Viet, I succumbed to peer preassure and family pressure to go to tech field.
Like many other lowly and unimaginative Viets, we were driven to become engineers, doctors or other tech related fields... Later, when I've been in real world, I realized that many other asians also have prob like us... We work hard but those arseholes with business degree are the ppl who get the the big money.
All this time, I've only met 2 Viet Green Belts... Never even heard about any Viet Black Belt out there... We need to start to do like the Indians... They now have alot of competent midle managers and even Master Black Belts.
You are being silly, and feeling sorry for yourself. My beef with the overwhelming majority of American MBA's is that they have zero technical training, and many if not most of them get promoted for making one dumb, uninformed decision after another. Cut out your whining, build on the technical training that you have, get your fu-king employer to pay for your fu-king MBA and get the fu-k out of my hair.
WTO and the Need for Constitutional and Legal Reforms in Vietnam :
Vietnam had become a member of WTO . Vietnam’s National Congress will ratify its official entry on 28 November 2006.
Concurrently, on the official Website of the APEC CEO Summit 2006, Hanoi Vietnam, an open invitation, signed by Dr. Vu Tien Loc (Chairman, APEC CEO Summit 2006) to this important meeting which had taken place from 17 November to 19 November 2006, was published.
This was an open letter to business leaders of the international community and part of it read:
“Under the theme “Towards One Community: Creating New Opportunities for Shared Development”, the APEC CEO Summit 2006 in Hanoi, Viet Nam will be another opportunity for business leaders to deliberate on most imperative issues that will advance APEC towards a community of sustainable development. We also do believe that Asia-Pacific business leaders will discover abundant business and investment opportunities in Vietnam, one of the fastest growing economies in the world.”
Thus the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) is preparing Hanoi for big times: Not only will it accede to WTO but it will also host one of the most important economic and political forums at an international level.
The CPV is convinced that it has earned such rewards and accolades because it has been skilful in manipulating the too credulous governments and dignitaries of foreign nations totally ignorant of Vietnam’s politics. Indeed externally, by being extremely pliant to foreign powers on the one hand, and by applying extremely harsh repressive and punitive measures to control dissent within the ranks of its own people, the CPV believes that it has the secret of permanent power in Vietnam. It ceded considerable land and sea areas to the Chinese to pacify its northern borders. It ceded considerably in terms of industrial laws to give maximum profit to foreign corporations and to its own mandarins who are now allowed to become home-grown captains of industries, at the expense of the ordinary Vietnamese workers. It will no doubt, under the WTO requirements, create a dual legal system where, under the thumb of the CPV, courts will favor foreign corporations, and err against the interests of local residents, in order to avoid accusations of bias and injustice by foreign investors who can take the matters to international jurisdictions. This would leave all Vietnamese citizens helpless within a legal system controlled by the CPV.
The CPV has earlier signed into laws administrative decrees to restrict citizen’s use of and access to internet sites, to outlaw and restrict assemblies of more than 5 persons without official approval, to severely restrict freedom of the press even where the press is 100% government-owned. All religious, political dissidents are imprisoned or harassed by the police and/or outlaws hired by the police themselves to sow terror on them. Some dissidents were released in recent months with a view to assuage international concerns. No doubt repression will resume and intensify next year, after Hanoi’s entry to WTO and in the aftermath of the APEC meeting.
Thus the above theme: “Towards One Community: Creating New Opportunities for Shared Development” will be true only for foreign investors and CPV mandarins, at the expense of the Vietnamese workers and at the expense of all dissidents in Vietnam.
However, the CPV is facing insurmountable dilemmas and tensions on several fronts:
1. Corruption is so systemic and rampant that no amount of lip service or even reforms, short of drastic constitutional changes leading to radical reforms in the legal system, would be able to restore a modicum of public confidence in the regime. Even entry to WTO or the hosting of the 2006 APEC summit shall not be enough to reinvigorate faith in the CPV and rescue the regime. The end of the regime is no longer a matter of “if” but rather “when”.
2. The tension and gulf between the ruling elite comprising CPV mandarins and the ordinary Vietnamese workers will grow even wider as a consequence of ascension to WTO. Social discord and disorder will pose serious threat to the stability of the regime.
3. The lack of confidence in the judicial system by the citizens and rank and file members of the CPV leads to a situation where all allegations of corruption against officials, even against the few who are not corrupt, are invariably considered well-founded by the public. Thus allegations and counter-allegations are no longer legitimate legal tools to fight corruption, but merely tactical or strategic means to exert pressure on political or factional foes with the ultimate aim of ridding oneself of dissenters from within the ranks of the CPV itself. The latest allegations of corruption against the Governor of the National Bank (Le Duc Thuy) and his son, are illustrative of this phenomenon. All CPV members with a conscience and vision for the long term existence of the Party as a political force in Vietnamese history should sit up and take notice of this, or there will be no future for the CPV. In the end, constitutional reforms towards a pluralist political system, in which a system of legitimate rule of law is implemented, are the only ways in which the CPV can purge itself of corruption and survive as a legitimate political party in future. The sooner it realizes this, the better it is for the CPV, for other political forces within the nation and for the people themselves.
Thus the above tensions and dilemmas created by the dictatorial nature of the regime, and exacerbated by free trade within the framework of WTO, are on the one hand real difficulties the CPV must face, but are also real opportunities and challenges that may be taken head-on by the CPV, in order to open a new chapter for democracy, human rights, and the rule of law, for all political forces, all religious organizations and the entire Vietnamese nation.
Vietnam had become a member of WTO . Vietnam’s National Congress will ratify its official entry on 28 November 2006.
Concurrently, on the official Website of the APEC CEO Summit 2006, Hanoi Vietnam, an open invitation, signed by Dr. Vu Tien Loc (Chairman, APEC CEO Summit 2006) to this important meeting which had taken place from 17 November to 19 November 2006, was published.
This was an open letter to business leaders of the international community and part of it read:
“Under the theme “Towards One Community: Creating New Opportunities for Shared Development”, the APEC CEO Summit 2006 in Hanoi, Viet Nam will be another opportunity for business leaders to deliberate on most imperative issues that will advance APEC towards a community of sustainable development. We also do believe that Asia-Pacific business leaders will discover abundant business and investment opportunities in Vietnam, one of the fastest growing economies in the world.”
Thus the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) is preparing Hanoi for big times: Not only will it accede to WTO but it will also host one of the most important economic and political forums at an international level.
The CPV is convinced that it has earned such rewards and accolades because it has been skilful in manipulating the too credulous governments and dignitaries of foreign nations totally ignorant of Vietnam’s politics. Indeed externally, by being extremely pliant to foreign powers on the one hand, and by applying extremely harsh repressive and punitive measures to control dissent within the ranks of its own people, the CPV believes that it has the secret of permanent power in Vietnam. It ceded considerable land and sea areas to the Chinese to pacify its northern borders. It ceded considerably in terms of industrial laws to give maximum profit to foreign corporations and to its own mandarins who are now allowed to become home-grown captains of industries, at the expense of the ordinary Vietnamese workers. It will no doubt, under the WTO requirements, create a dual legal system where, under the thumb of the CPV, courts will favor foreign corporations, and err against the interests of local residents, in order to avoid accusations of bias and injustice by foreign investors who can take the matters to international jurisdictions. This would leave all Vietnamese citizens helpless within a legal system controlled by the CPV.
The CPV has earlier signed into laws administrative decrees to restrict citizen’s use of and access to internet sites, to outlaw and restrict assemblies of more than 5 persons without official approval, to severely restrict freedom of the press even where the press is 100% government-owned. All religious, political dissidents are imprisoned or harassed by the police and/or outlaws hired by the police themselves to sow terror on them. Some dissidents were released in recent months with a view to assuage international concerns. No doubt repression will resume and intensify next year, after Hanoi’s entry to WTO and in the aftermath of the APEC meeting.
Thus the above theme: “Towards One Community: Creating New Opportunities for Shared Development” will be true only for foreign investors and CPV mandarins, at the expense of the Vietnamese workers and at the expense of all dissidents in Vietnam.
However, the CPV is facing insurmountable dilemmas and tensions on several fronts:
1. Corruption is so systemic and rampant that no amount of lip service or even reforms, short of drastic constitutional changes leading to radical reforms in the legal system, would be able to restore a modicum of public confidence in the regime. Even entry to WTO or the hosting of the 2006 APEC summit shall not be enough to reinvigorate faith in the CPV and rescue the regime. The end of the regime is no longer a matter of “if” but rather “when”.
2. The tension and gulf between the ruling elite comprising CPV mandarins and the ordinary Vietnamese workers will grow even wider as a consequence of ascension to WTO. Social discord and disorder will pose serious threat to the stability of the regime.
3. The lack of confidence in the judicial system by the citizens and rank and file members of the CPV leads to a situation where all allegations of corruption against officials, even against the few who are not corrupt, are invariably considered well-founded by the public. Thus allegations and counter-allegations are no longer legitimate legal tools to fight corruption, but merely tactical or strategic means to exert pressure on political or factional foes with the ultimate aim of ridding oneself of dissenters from within the ranks of the CPV itself. The latest allegations of corruption against the Governor of the National Bank (Le Duc Thuy) and his son, are illustrative of this phenomenon. All CPV members with a conscience and vision for the long term existence of the Party as a political force in Vietnamese history should sit up and take notice of this, or there will be no future for the CPV. In the end, constitutional reforms towards a pluralist political system, in which a system of legitimate rule of law is implemented, are the only ways in which the CPV can purge itself of corruption and survive as a legitimate political party in future. The sooner it realizes this, the better it is for the CPV, for other political forces within the nation and for the people themselves.
Thus the above tensions and dilemmas created by the dictatorial nature of the regime, and exacerbated by free trade within the framework of WTO, are on the one hand real difficulties the CPV must face, but are also real opportunities and challenges that may be taken head-on by the CPV, in order to open a new chapter for democracy, human rights, and the rule of law, for all political forces, all religious organizations and the entire Vietnamese nation.
Vietnam doesnt need democracy now. Democracy creates a short-visioned decision making. It means slower economic growth because everyone's rights have to be taken into account. The poor will be given some capital (due to them lobbying in the government) but they dont know how to use it as good as the rich.
Can someone name me any effective democratic country who can industrialise with a growth >10% consistently over a decade? And no, dont assume that Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore etc are effective democratic countries because they have high standard of livings. All of them are effectively one-party state.
Western countries' industrialisation took a painful 100 years. For China, it can be cut to 30 years. Same for those countries i have mentioned.
Some idiots raised up in the West always think democracy must be applied in Vietnam so they advocates the use of force to accomplish that. I think that they all have tofu heads. As long as basic rights are adhered to, and a good governing mechanism is in place, Vietnam can also industrialise very quickly.
Imagine if the Tianmen square incident wasnt put off by the Chinese government, what could China become?
Of course it is a terrible thing that happened, but it hinted the Chinese people that politics are not the business of ordinary men, but economic condition is. I know that there are a lot of anti-government feeling in China, especially in the minorities, because many poor people are left out of the growth process, but the fact is that China has achieved very high economic growth rate. All economic indicators for China are healthy.
I want to see a modernised Vietnam in my life time, I dont want to wait 100 years promised by a democratic system.
Just to let some readers know: Japan has a very undemocratic journalism and from wwII to now, japan ruling party LDP has been dominated by ultra-right politicans and bureaucrats.
Can someone name me any effective democratic country who can industrialise with a growth >10% consistently over a decade? And no, dont assume that Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore etc are effective democratic countries because they have high standard of livings. All of them are effectively one-party state.
Western countries' industrialisation took a painful 100 years. For China, it can be cut to 30 years. Same for those countries i have mentioned.
Some idiots raised up in the West always think democracy must be applied in Vietnam so they advocates the use of force to accomplish that. I think that they all have tofu heads. As long as basic rights are adhered to, and a good governing mechanism is in place, Vietnam can also industrialise very quickly.
Imagine if the Tianmen square incident wasnt put off by the Chinese government, what could China become?
Of course it is a terrible thing that happened, but it hinted the Chinese people that politics are not the business of ordinary men, but economic condition is. I know that there are a lot of anti-government feeling in China, especially in the minorities, because many poor people are left out of the growth process, but the fact is that China has achieved very high economic growth rate. All economic indicators for China are healthy.
I want to see a modernised Vietnam in my life time, I dont want to wait 100 years promised by a democratic system.
Just to let some readers know: Japan has a very undemocratic journalism and from wwII to now, japan ruling party LDP has been dominated by ultra-right politicans and bureaucrats.
TrashCleaner,
Those are not LaniKai's words. He stole it from somebody else. Wait until the real author of those words come here, then argue.
Those are not LaniKai's words. He stole it from somebody else. Wait until the real author of those words come here, then argue.
i know.
It is clear to us but it is unclear to many readers of the forum. They are not to be misled.
It is clear to us but it is unclear to many readers of the forum. They are not to be misled.
I don't expect anything from VNCH windbags and whiners - and in fact, from any kind of windbags and whiners.
QUOTE(TrashCleaner @ Nov 22 2006, 10:14 PM) [snapback]2507236[/snapback]
i know.
It is clear to us but it is unclear to many readers of the forum. They are not to be misled.
Vietnam is controlling the use of the internet by encouraging providers and users to spy on each other and turn informant if they suspect politically 'subversive' activity, according to a report today by Amnesty International.
The communist regime has harassed, detained and imprisoned its citizens for expressing peaceful political views online, leading to widespread self-censorship among the Vietnamese. Owners of the country's hugely popular internet cafes have been described by the organisation Reporters Without Borders as 'police auxiliaries'.
The report comes before a petition calling for an end to internet repression and signed by 42,000 supporters of Amnesty and The Observer's Irrepressible.info campaign, is presented to the UN's Internet Governance Forum in Athens next week.
Internet service providers in Vietnam are required to inform on web users; internet cafe owners are required to inform on customers; and web users are required to inform on sites that oppose the state. Laws ban web users from spreading information that causes 'harm to national security or social order'.
While the Vietnamese government claims that filtering is for the protection of web users from pornography, a recent OpenNet Initiative study found little filtering of such material. Instead blocked sites are those referring to known dissidents or mentioning democracy and human rights.
Cong Thanh Do, who uses the internet to promote democracy in Vietnam, was arrested on 14 August, accused of attempting to 'implement a terrorist plot to destroy the US General Consulate in Ho Chi Minh City'.
He spent 38 days in solitary confinement in a cramped cell, maintaining a hunger strike for the entire period. American officials said there was no evidence to support the allegation and he was released. Amnesty believes that the arrest of the 47-year-old - who lives in America and travelled to Vietnam regularly but is now barred - was aimed solely at punishing him for expressing his political views.
Cong Thanh Do said: 'There are internet police who can hack into your email account and read everything. That's what happened to me. I think they really wanted to put me in jail for a long time to destroy my group, the People's Democratic party, so they accused me of being a terrorist.' He added that six members of the party are still in prison.
QUOTE(LaniKai @ Nov 23 2006, 10:30 PM) [snapback]2507814[/snapback]
Vietnam is controlling the use of the internet by encouraging providers and users to spy on each other and turn informant if they suspect politically 'subversive' activity, according to a report today by Amnesty International.
The communist regime has harassed, detained and imprisoned its citizens for expressing peaceful political views online, leading to widespread self-censorship among the Vietnamese. Owners of the country's hugely popular internet cafes have been described by the organisation Reporters Without Borders as 'police auxiliaries'.
The report comes before a petition calling for an end to internet repression and signed by 42,000 supporters of Amnesty and The Observer's Irrepressible.info campaign, is presented to the UN's Internet Governance Forum in Athens next week.
Internet service providers in Vietnam are required to inform on web users; internet cafe owners are required to inform on customers; and web users are required to inform on sites that oppose the state. Laws ban web users from spreading information that causes 'harm to national security or social order'.
While the Vietnamese government claims that filtering is for the protection of web users from pornography, a recent OpenNet Initiative study found little filtering of such material. Instead blocked sites are those referring to known dissidents or mentioning democracy and human rights.
Cong Thanh Do, who uses the internet to promote democracy in Vietnam, was arrested on 14 August, accused of attempting to 'implement a terrorist plot to destroy the US General Consulate in Ho Chi Minh City'.
He spent 38 days in solitary confinement in a cramped cell, maintaining a hunger strike for the entire period. American officials said there was no evidence to support the allegation and he was released. Amnesty believes that the arrest of the 47-year-old - who lives in America and travelled to Vietnam regularly but is now barred - was aimed solely at punishing him for expressing his political views.
Cong Thanh Do said: 'There are internet police who can hack into your email account and read everything. That's what happened to me. I think they really wanted to put me in jail for a long time to destroy my group, the People's Democratic party, so they accused me of being a terrorist.' He added that six members of the party are still in prison.
Why cut and paste this after my response? I dont bother reading it anyway.
Keep doing this & i can conveniently ask someone to close off the thread.
Out of topic.
Viet Nam faces shortage of qualified, educated execs : " Must be because people had not học tập tốt tư tưởng HCM "
HCM's 5 rules are:
Yêu tổ quốc, yêu đồng bào
Học tập tốt, lao động tốt
Kỉ luật tốt, đoàn kết tốt
Giữ gìn vệ sinh thật tốt
Khiêm tốn, thật thà, dũng cảm
Translation to English:
Love your country and your fellow countrymen
Study well and work hard
Be disciplined and united
Keep good hygiene
Be modest, honest and courageous
Nothing wrong with that.
Yêu tổ quốc, yêu đồng bào
Học tập tốt, lao động tốt
Kỉ luật tốt, đoàn kết tốt
Giữ gìn vệ sinh thật tốt
Khiêm tốn, thật thà, dũng cảm
Translation to English:
Love your country and your fellow countrymen
Study well and work hard
Be disciplined and united
Keep good hygiene
Be modest, honest and courageous
Nothing wrong with that.
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