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Since Korean firms are faced with new challenges and rapidly changing business environments, it is inevitable for them to establish a new overall management and personnel management system to maintain survival and growth by ensuring worldwide competitive position. The new system should have characteristics of being interrelated, self-controlled, adaptive to contingency, and creative, while conventional system is rigid, mechanical, hierarchical, and authoritarian. The characteristics of the new system are based on the premise that objectives and problems solving oriented way of thinking and high attitude toward self-actualization and work are integral parts to motivate employees so that enhance firms` performances. This paper suggests, from a process-oriented point of views, a system based on the idea of the golden mean and contingency, which corresponds to a general management thoughts. The golden mean based overall management and creative personnel management systems are horizontal and anthropocentric and they seek optimality. The suggested new management system is desirable and efficient due to the presumption that human beings are complex mixtures which possess diverse needs, unlimited possibility, self-control, and decision making ability rather than selfish economic and mechanical. The view of complex mixture is the basis of management by virture, participation, the golden mean, and adaptability to contingency and so is the creative and innovative personnel management system. Meanwhile, management by control, regulation, and severity is rooted on selfish economic and mechanical man. The new system will contribute to the management of Korean firms in several ways : (1) satisfying high level needs of employees who seek a work place to achieve desirable life and self-actualization, (2) coordinating interests of deverse groups and that make sure the basis of survival and growth by enhanced trusts from society, and (3) moreover, improving international competitiveness toward the best company in the world.