The 5 Landmark Programs – 10 Years Making Vietnam a Better Place to work

WE@WORK
Apr 30
5 min read

Vietnam Rising: Unleashing Human Potential, Building the Best Place to Work

2025 marks a golden milestone. It’s been 50 years since the country’s reunification, and movement — a mission to honor people-centric workplaces in economic growth, and elevate the Vietnamese workplace to global standards.

But this is more than a celebration of history. It’s a rallying cry for the future. Now is the time to unleash the full potential of Vietnamese people, to build a nation that leads Asia — not only in growth, but in humanity and innovation.

With that spirit, Respect Vietnam proudly launches 5 landmark initiatives, delivering insights and innovations unmatched in Vietnam and the region — not just to look back, but to build forward.

🇻🇳 5 Landmark Programs — 5 Pillars to Unleash Vietnam’s Human Capital

1. 📊 Special Report: “Make Vietnam a Better Place to Work”

A first-of-its-kind blueprint to make Vietnam the most respected workplace environment in Asia.

This national report makes a national call for cross-sector collaboration to research, define, and scale the core enablers of great workplaces as well as maps the DNA of thriving workplaces through four essential cores:

🔑 Core Mindset - From just a wage earner to a lean thinker, team aligner, and game changer - Empowering every individual to think critically, act collaboratively, and lead boldly.
👥 Core Workforce - From myth-believing to a myth-busting, future-shaping force - Fostering a culture where workers challenge limits, question assumptions, and co-create better ways forward.
🏛️ Core Governance - From control and compliance to co-value creation and trustShifting leadership from hierarchy to shared responsibility — grounded in transparency, dialogue, and purpose.
⚙️ Core Systems - From rigid procedures to adaptive, lean, and learning-driven organizations - Building ecosystems that evolve, innovate, and scale human potential in real time.
💻 Core Technology - From automation for replacement to technology that amplifies human value - Leveraging digital tools to elevate creativity, insight, and meaningful work — not erase it.

For the first time, this report combines real-world data, business voices, and worker aspirations to chart a course for making Vietnam the most desirable workplace in the region. It also is built on real data, business insights, and worker aspirations, this report is a call to collective action — for business, government, and society to shape a workplace future that empowers all.

2. 📘 Special Publication: “Made in Vietnam with Respect” — 10 Years Retrospective

⚖️ A rare, comparative analysis of Vietnam’s labor law evolution over the past decade alongside Asian peers — and how legal frameworks impact: Workplace relationships Worker productivity and engagement Trust, safety, and creativity at work.

This journal not only highlights achievements but offers a clear-eyed view of gaps and opportunities, calling for law as a tool for growth, not just compliance.

This is Vietnam’s first in-depth comparative review of its labor law evolution over the past decade — benchmarked with Asian peers like Japan, South Korea, Indonesia, and beyond.

The journal explores:

The shifting legal foundations of labor rights and business growth
The impact of law on trust, safety, and innovation at work
The pathways to empower labor relations through dignity and dialogue

💡 It invites policymakers, lawyers, and changemakers to rethink law not just as compliance, but as a catalyst for inclusion, innovation, and competitiveness.

3. 💡Productivity Chopsticks Initiative – Sharing Vietnam’s Values with the World”

🥢 A new symbol of Vietnamese productivity — agile, elegant, and harmoniously coordinated.

🥢 Symbolizing agility, precision, and cultural harmony, the Lean Chopsticks initiative turns productivity into an art form — rooted in Vietnamese values.

⚙️ Building on the success of five pioneering post-COVID productivity models launched in 2020, this initiative expands to deliver:

Proven tools to increase productivity across sectors
New models for shared value creation in organizations
Culturally grounded innovations that fuel Vietnam’s global integration

🌏 A proud and practical step forward — from “Made in Vietnam” to “Inspired by Vietnam.”

4. 🎙️📖 Podcast & White Paper Series: Leadership Mindset & Organizational Culture in Vietnam’s Next Chapter

🌍 A vibrant platform where ambassadors, experts, CEOs, and scholars explore a timely question:How do we bridge the notorious “strategy-execution gap” in today’s world of turbulence?

Building on the acclaimed “Made in Vietnam Learning Organizations” series with 30+ Ambassadors and high-level leaders, this new season dives into one of Vietnam’s biggest challenges: ➡️ How do we close the strategy–execution gap in an era of hyper-change?

🎯 Topics include:

Crisis-ready leadership with heart and vision
Building learning cultures that scale quickly
Leading with AI without losing our humanity

📚 From the acclaimed “Made in Vietnam Learning Organizations” series (featuring 30+ global Ambassadors), this new edition delivers the knowledge and courage to lead in Vietnam’s new era.

5. 📚🎧 Book & Audiobook: “The Latecomer’s Advantage”

Vietnam has never needed to follow the world.

We can leapfrog it — by learning smarter, moving faster, and thinking differently.

🎧 This book is a guide for every Vietnamese leader and learner who dares to turn challenges into choices, and choices into change.

This book celebrates:

The power of learning from failure, not just success
Stories of transformation from Vietnamese enterprises
How latecomers can build lean, bold, human-centered innovation

Featuring 50 case-studies, this book celebrates the power of learning from the best, from success, from experts, from crisis, from mistakes, and from failures — turning our latecomer status into a strategic edge:

Breakthrough lessons from lean learning organizations
How to turn setbacks into learning leaps
Vietnamese case studies of bold transformation and sustainable differentiation

Vietnam — Not Just a Great Place to Live, but the Best Place to Work

These five initiatives are not the end of a journey — They are pillars for the next Vietnamese revolution — a revolution not of machines or markets, but of meaning, respect, and human excellence. They are the beginning of a new chapter. A chapter where Vietnam is seen as a hub of respect, productivity, creativity, and bold human development.

Respect Vietnam invites all organizations, leaders, policymakers, and workers to join hands — to co-create a future where every Vietnamese worker can grow, contribute, and be truly respected.

Let us rise — not only to honor the past, but to build the future together.Because the world’s best workplace is not found.It’s made — with intention, with innovation, and with respect.

📩 Join Us. Lead Forward. Build Differently.

📩 Connect with us to co-create this future: 🌐 www.respectvn.com ✉️ info@respectvn.com +84 888673222

Made in Vietnam with Respect – Created with Intelligence, Integrity, and Ambition to Rise.

Respect Vietnam is a local consulting firm known for its unique human-centric approach to organizational excellence in Vietnam & the region.

In the past ten years, RespectVN successfully developed award-winning workplace solutions that are ground-breaking, myth-busting & conventional wisdom-challenging, helping hundreds of teams & thousands of individuals unleash their potential & strengths from within to create their unique competitive advantages.

The solutions take manpower quality, labor productivity, workforce transformation, organizational excellence,

business model alignment, & (inter)national standard advocacy, in Vietnam and other countries, to the next level.