TOPIC: Reducing bureaucracy and encouraging a proactive attitude throughout the workplace PREFACE In recent years, Vietnam’s economy has quickly developed and integrated successfully into global business. In November 2006, Vietnam officially became a member of World Trade Organization (WTO). This may lead to significantly positive changes to this country, but it may also make many challenges. For example: unemployment, take over, competition, dependency or to lag far behind other countries. For those reasons, each domestic entity is required to rapidly innovate organizational structure and method of operation in order to adapt to more severely competitive business environment and moreover extend scope of activities worldwide. It aims to reduce bad impact and catch good opportunities originated from globalization. However, after 2 decades of innovation, many organizations in Vietnam on all fields are managed and ruined under bureaucracy, especially state-owned enterprises. Therefore there is an issue which should be discussed that specify causes and propose solutions in order to come to wipe old vestige and create new structures and institutions. This aims to build an dynamic business environment and help each person to promote the whole ability, to contribute to socio-economic development in a new era. So, senior members of the Vietnamese government and top business leaders also have repeatedly publicly stated that Vietnamese organizations must improve significantly to compete internationally. This has now become urgent because of Vietnam's becoming a member of the World Trade Organization (WTO). Experts state that there are two areas in particular which must be addressed: ã Bureaucracy must be dramatically reduced. CONTENT PREFACE Part I - Why bureaucracy and non-proactive are widespread in Vietnam (especially in state owned enterprises) 1.1. Real situation of bureaucracy and non-proactive in Vietnam 1.2. Why bureaucracy and non-proactive are widespread in Vietnam (especially in state owned enterprises) Part II - Solution to reducing bureaucracy and making people more proactive in Vietnamese organizations 2.1. Why do we have to change 2.2. The difficulties and challenges we face 2.3. Overcome perception challenges 2.4. Moving people up the continuum of behaviors and change the organization culture. CONCLUSION REFERENCE.