Buddhist Approach in Managing Talented and Good Persons to Develop Human Resource Competency in the Age of Borderless World

Abstract

          The purposes of this article were: (1) to study a Buddhist approach in managing talented and good persons; (2) to study qualifications of talented and good persons; and (3) to study a system in maintaining talented and good persons. This is a qualitative documentary research. The researchers studied and collected data from books, texts and related researches and wrote data in the form of descriptive analysis. The research results showed the following: (1) Buddhism places great importance on development of human resource competency because it is an important key for organizational growth. The Buddha had assigned a job appropriate to the person, and appointed the person appropriate to the job based on knowledge, competency, skill and expertise of each person. (2) Qualifications of talented and good persons in Buddhism are the seven Sappurisa-dhammas, virtues of a gentleman or qualifications of a good man: knowing the law, knowing the consequence, knowing oneself, knowing moderation, knowing the proper time, knowing the assembly and knowing the individual. In addition, talented persons must have knowledge, competency, excellent working skill, wisdom in solving various problems as well as physical and mental energy to work for the organizational growth and sustainability. (3) Administrators must have a strategy to maintain talented and good employees for the organization; pay compensations appropriate to their knowledge, skill and competency; have a system in protection of talented and good persons; and support them for career advancement. Recommendations from this study are that administrators must be able to elicit each employee’s expertise and special competency beneficial for the organization as much as possible because he/she has special knowledge and talent.