Assessing the Purpose and Function of HRM in Samsung

HRM
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
ACTIVITY1.....................................................................................................................................3
P1 Assessing the purpose and function of human resource management applicable to
workforce planning and resourcing within Samsung ............................................................3
P2, D1: Critically evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of various approaches of recruitment
and selection taken by Samsung.............................................................................................4
M1 Assessment how workforce planning and recruitment and selection provide talent and
skills to achieve objectives of Samsung ...............................................................................6
M2 Advantages and disadvantages of approaches to recruitment and selection adopted by
Samsung.................................................................................................................................7
ACTIVITY2.....................................................................................................................................7
P3 Benefits of various human resource management practices in organisation both the
employer and employee..........................................................................................................7
P4 Evaluation of different HRM practices in terms of raising organisational profit and
productivity.............................................................................................................................8
M3 Exploring different methods used in HRM practices......................................................9
D2 Evaluation of HRM practices and their application within ASDA..................................9
ACTIVITY3...................................................................................................................................10
P5 Evaluation of the importance of employee relations.......................................................10
P6 Identifying key aspects of employee legislations to influence HRM decision making. .10
M4 Benefits and limitations of employee relations management and employment legislation
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D3 Evaluation of employee relations and HRM practices within McDonald's....................12
ACTIVITY 4..................................................................................................................................12
P7 Application of recruitment and selection practices by preparing documentations as a part
of individual portfolio...........................................................................................................12
M5 Application of HRM practices in recruitment and selection of candidate for McDonald's
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REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................16
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INTRODUCTION
Samsung is a multinational company of South Korea, its headquarters is situated in
Seocho District, Seoul. It is a private organisation that is comprised of multiple businesses which
come under the brand of Samsung. Lee Byung chul is a founder of Samsung in the year of 1938.
Earlier it was dealing in the areas of textile, insurance, security and processing of food. But in
1960 it has made place in industry of electronics and in 1970 it has entered in the industry of
construction. And these areas helped in the growth of Samsung. Samsung has started its business
globally in which mobiles have become the their primary source of earning. Samsung has a great
impact on economy of South Korea. Political, media and cultural factors helps in driving the
business.
ACTIVITY1
P1 Assessing the purpose and function of human resource management applicable to workforce
planning and resourcing within Samsung
Human resource management is a process of recruitment, selection, induction of workers,
giving orientation, providing training and development, appraisal of the performance of
personnel, decisions related to perks, benefits and remuneration, motivation of employees,
maintaining relations between different employees and trade unions, measures for health and
welfare in order with laws of labour. Basically it is a department of a firm that is handling all the
employees working for an organisation.
The purpose of human resource management in Samsung is to create coordination
between people and business to fulfil the firm's predetermined aims and goals, fulfilling needs of
personnel working in Samsung and maintaining satisfaction among employees (Al‐Ghazali,
2021).
There are many functions of human resource management in Samsung like recruitment,
selection, training and development and many more. Recruiters of Samsung provides the offer of
job in such a way that allow only talented candidates to apply. Through this company gets
qualified workforce in an organisation and achieve predefined goals and objectives. The main
functions of human resource management followed by Samsung are: recruitment and motivation.
Future of an organisation depends upon the functions of HRM because with these functions
company is able to reach maximum number of people to get broader selection to select from.
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Workforce planning refers to the process through which organisation get future workforce
requirements and present supply of workforce. The purpose of workforce planning for Samsung
is to have right number of employees with right knowledge and skill to attain objectives.
Recruitment is a function of human resource department (Allen, 2021). In Samsung recruitment
is an important and strategic process because it helps to find people who are qualified and have
values necessary to achieve aims and goals. There are multiple ways in which a firm implements
process of recruitment. Many firms use multiple ways to recruit personnel like advertisement in
newspapers, different job sites and so on. Motivation is also vital function of human resource
department because after recruitment of personnel on the basis of their educations and skills to
the goals of Samsung, it becomes significant to make workforce motivated and joyful in the
environment of a businesses. It has advantages, when are employees are there would be less
employee turnover in an organisation. Workforce planning is defined as the process which helps
in ensuring a firm has present and future accessibility to the human resource. It helps in
identifying employee needs at present and future time. Samsung uses workforce planning to get
aligned its overall organisation's objectives and vision for long term. For the successful
workforce planning higher management team should have higher knowledge and skills.
P2, D1: Critically evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of various approaches of recruitment
and selection taken by Samsung
For recruitment Samsung has adopted both the approaches internal and external
recruitment for recruiting employees. But these both have advantages with some disadvantages,
some of them are explained below:
Internal recruitment: Internal recruitment includes promotions and transfers. An organisation
sometimes uses switching method in which employees are switched from part time position to
full time job (Agarwal, 2021).
 Advantages: It is a method of cost saving and increase the morale of employees. It also
helps in retaining most efficient staff and decreases turnover of employees within
organisation.
 Disadvantages: One of the disadvantages of this method is that it limits the new talent in
an organisation because it does not allow to enter new talented candidates in a firm with
fresh perspectives and ideas. Conflicts and disputes could also arise in businesses because
some employees think promotions are done on the basis of biasness and favouritism.
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External recruitment: External recruitment is method through which organisations recruit
candidates. It uses job sites for advertising, newspapers for advertising different roles about jobs
and many more.
 Advantages: It helps in getting fresh and talented candidates for organisation. These
candidates have perspectives that are different from existing employees. It helps in
getting employees fast for an organisation.
 Disadvantages: It is a process which is costly and increases cost of organisations
because these new candidates need to be provided with trainings and the another
disadvantage is it takes a lot of time to fill job vacant position of job because it takes so
much time to screen many resumes.
The two different approaches used by Samsung in external recruitment are: Online recruitment
and recruitment agencies but they also have some pros and cons that are discussed below:
Online recruitment: Samsung is using this method because it has preferred mode of sourcing
talented candidates. So, it uses various strategies related to recruitment via social media like
LinkedIn and so on.
Advantages:
 Cost effective: It helps in saving and reducing cost because for this company has
to pay according to the exposure they want and type of candidates need to be
selected.
 Quick: This method helps in rising efforts to attract more audience in a very less
time and stop from applying after searching apt candidate for the job.
Disadvantages:
 Informal way: There are some roles in an organisation which could not be posted online
especially in social media because that can produce wrong image of an organisation.
 Competition: It is a way which is used by many organisations because of that company's
post goes down and which is not able to attract large number of customers.
Recruitment agencies: Samsung also uses agencies for recruitment to hire apt candidates. With
the help of these agencies Samsung does not need to give attention to the recruitment process.
But it has some advantages and limitations that are explained below:
Advantages:
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 Fast hiring: These agencies help in recruiting educated and talented candidates quickly
for organisations .
 Candidates of high quality: By adopting these agencies they help in recruiting improved
quality candidates than the existing ones.
For selection process Samsung uses different approaches like interviews, tests for
selection, centres for assessment and so on. The two main approaches adopted by Samsung are
interviews and selection test.
Interviews: It is a method used by Samsung in selection process. It helps to identify about the
knowledge and communication skills of candidates (Beijer, 2021).
Advantages:
 Selection of right candidate: It helps in selecting right person with required skills and
education and it also help in removing problems of future.
 Collecting information: It helps in collecting various basic information like name,
address, academic details about candidates.
Disadvantages:
 Incomplete details: Sometimes because of the ignorance of interviewer an organisation
misses out the vital information
M1 Assessment how workforce planning and recruitment and selection provide talent and skills
to achieve objectives of Samsung
Workforce Planning:
Workforce planning helps in aligning goals and objectives of Samsung. The process of
workforce planning ensures Samsung to have future and present access of human resource needs
to do various activities and operations to achieve predefined objectives of Samsung. It clearly
defines the number of employees required, what skills are needed from them so it becomes easy
for recruiters to look for such employees in the market for their business (Fan, 2021).
Recruitment and Selection:
Recruitment and selection are also one of the important functions to achieve predefined
objectives because it helps in adding employees in Samsung within time. It helps in timely
addition of talented and qualified personnel in Samsung as it allows working continuously
towards objectives without any barrier and issues. They both work for the development and
growth of a company.
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