In January 2019, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) will roll out a new system (Certification 2.0) which relates to performance appraisal and performance-based compensation for senior employees. Federal agencies, which will comply with annual data call rules, will no longer have to submit performance plans and will have greater headroom to decide upon and award annual performance-based compensation.

The government is set to change the way senior executives are managed. Job selection will become the remit of the National School of Public Administration. Appraisal of skills and experience acquired will carry the same weight whether candidates come from the public or private sector. Another measure is that abnormally high absenteeism will come to represent managerial misconduct and will have an impact on the individual’s career path.

To outline its HR policy and manage staff, the South Korean government has adopted a combined information system (policy-making and management). In order to cater for new requirements from both managers and their staff, it has developed a mobile app which is guided by the same principles and which allows managers to steer their unit’s HR as well as providing staff with access to the most frequently-used functionalities.