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Nowadays Korean firms are faced with new challenges and rapidly changing business environments, therefore it is inevitable for them to establish a new overall management system to maintain survival and growth by ensuring worldwide competitive position. The new system should have characteristics of being interrelated, silf-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 a system based on the idea of Confucius. Management system based on the idea of Confucius is horizontal, human loving, moral, and anthropocentric and they seek optimality. The suggested management system is desirable and efficient dues to the presumption that human beings must be respected and they possess morality, unlimited possibility, self-control, and decision making ability rather than selfish economic and mechanical. The view that human beings must be respected is the basis of management by virture, justice, equity, humanity, participation, the golden mean, and adaptability to contingency. meanwhile, management by control, regulation, and severity is rooted on selfish economic and mechanical man. The new management system based on the idea of Confucius will contribute to the management of Korean firms in several ways; first, satisfying high level needs of employees who seek a work place to achieve desirable life and self-actualization. second, coordinating interests of deverse groups and that make sure the basis of survival and growth by enhanced trusts from society. third, improving international competitiveness toward the best company in the world.