Report on Samsung's Human Resource Management Recruitment Challenges

This report provides an executive summary and in-depth analysis of the recruitment challenges faced by Samsung's HR department. It identifies key issues such as obtaining human capital, managing employee turnover, adapting to increasing demands for specific talent, and the difficulties in finding qualified applicants. The report then explores potential strategies for Samsung to overcome these challenges, including employer branding, leveraging technology, fostering a strong company culture, motivating employees, and expanding education and development opportunities. The report also discusses the importance of organized governance, ethical considerations, and the use of social media and mobile applications in recruitment. Finally, the report provides recommendations for Samsung to improve its hiring processes, such as striking a balance between specific job requirements and general talent, and emphasizes the importance of workforce planning and data analytics.

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Executive summary:
The following report is going to analyze the recruitment challenges which are faced by Samsung
in the present world. The brief analysis is done regarding the challenges for Samsung HR
manager which he has to face while hiring employees for organization. The other part of report
analyzes the strategies which Samsung can adopt to overcome challenges in hiring. The
recommendation for challenges which can be used are managing resources, upgrading to latest
hiring tools and many more which can help a HR in hiring best workforce required for his
company.

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Table of Contents
Executive summary:....................................................................................................................................2
Introduction:...............................................................................................................................................4
Challenges for Samsung to hire workforce:.................................................................................................4
Strategies for Samsung in recruitment........................................................................................................7
Conclusion:..................................................................................................................................................9
References.................................................................................................................................................11

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Introduction:
The Samsung Group is a South Korean based combination organization that incorporates various
backups. It's one of the leading corporations in Korea, creating almost one fifth of the nation's
aggregate prices with an essential concentration in the gadgets, overwhelming industry,
development, and protection enterprises. The following report is analyzing about the challenges
the HR manager of Samsung is facing during hiring of its employees. The challenges which it
faces slow down the recruitment procedure of Samsung.
The challenges mainly faced by Samsung are obtaining human capital, growing levels of
employee turnover, increase in demand of aptitude for certain job, struggle in finding capable
applicants with the skills to prosper, maintaining optimum productivity, and many more. The
solutions to these problems are strategies which Samsung can adopt to overcome these
challenges.
Challenges for Samsung to hire workforce:
Following are the challenges faced by Samsung to hire employees:
Obtaining human capital: One of the biggest challenges is to obtain correct human capital. The
main challenges for Samsung are to obtain human capital which is complementing the present
workforce or substitute the misplaced staff, employment of extraordinary-talent required by
Samsung is a challenge faced by the HR, discovering staff with the apt skills and self-driven
character and much more. Recruitment is continuously being done by the internal HR division or

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with help of other-party direction, but the operational central management of the same also is a
challenge.
Growing Levels of Employee Turnover:
According to Shaffer, et al., (2012) the other challenge which is to be managed is growing levels
of turnover amongst employees. As personnel is the lifeline for Samsung and they invest
substantial time and money to guarantee maximum efficiency and attention of their workers.
Another vital concern of HR is to guard their pre-existing respected employees. Firms like
Samsung should focus on worker retention but some amount of employee turnover is
unavoidable as the country’s condition improves.
Increase in demand for Talent:
Samsung’s HR manager another challenge is to search for talent when lucrative salaries are not
being provided. For instance capable workers, chauffeurs, instructors, sales representatives,
managerial authorities and executives, technicians, accounting and business staff, and engineers.
The number of people crossing retirement age is increasing causing more retirement and this has
also increased the demand for more healthcare services proving the difficulty for Samsung.
Difficulty in searching the competent applicants:
Samsung is also facing applicants lacking the necessary job skills, Knowledge, technical
competencies, don’t have the applicable knowledge, or are the absence of the soft skills that are
necessary to hold the place which is required necessarily by the firms to succeed. The excellence
of candidate applying is seen by Samsung HR professionals to be the most appreciated metric for
assessing a worker’s on-the-job performance. HR manager is frequently observing themselves

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stuck when they aren't getting resumes from competitors with solid foundations or aptitude
required for the position. While enrollment specialists may need to fill a specific position, they
ought to likewise be open to preparing and teaching talented employees so they can get required
abilities (Onyemah, Rouziés & Panagopoulos, 2010).
Demographic issues: Predicting labor supply and demand is also challenge for HR manager of
Samsung because of changes in superannuation forms, interprovincial relocation, and a number
of transnational migrants upcoming to the region (Gupta, et al., 2012). Over the past few years,
the average superannuation ages crawl higher, a decrease took after by a later bounce in net
inflows of interprovincial transients, and an emotional upgrade of the government's transitory
foreign specialist (TFW) program that has prompted a sharp falloff in new TFWs entering the
area.
Labor supply and demand: The determination of labor and demand is significant, as
organizations don't need an excess of representatives who are not being completely and
successfully employed, nor do Samsung HR need holes in their worker pool which brings
lessened efficiency, execution and productivity (Bader, Schuster & Dickmann, 2015). And if
those aptitudes are not accessible inside, maybe at that point they ought to be looking for skills
and talent outside the organization. When looking factors, for example, accessibility of aptitudes
inside the job market, availability of capable workforce, the willingness of the candidate to join
the company and much more are proving a challenge in hiring.
Organizational change:

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Many organizations like Samsung are developing so quickly and need to fill numerous positions
while selection representatives never again have a great deal of time to enlist specialists. HR
experts of Samsung are additionally confronting challenges in looking at their enrollment
instruments, particularly their product and worker administration techniques.
Ethical forces: Establishments like Samsung are being tested to safeguard overall benefits of its
employees and customers. HR managers should focus on to providing resources and reporting
unethical behaviors of employees to create a better working place. Samsung HR manager also
needs to fulfill the ethical values because the negligence of this can lose talented employees.
Governments and laws are also imposing significant penalties on companies for not following
ethical standards (Patel, Pankaj, & Conklin, 2012).
Strategies for Samsung in recruitment
Employer branding:
The growth of the value-proposition embodied in the brand, and offered to the workforce, on the
basis of evidence around the organization’s culture, administration style, abilities to existing
employees, present worker image and much more can help Samsung to find and recruit right
candidate for the company. External promotion of this plan to targeted employees and other
representatives in the employment procedure can help Samsung to create the value for its brand.
With help of this, it can design job opportunity to attract candidates and support, bring into line
and also enhance the Samsung brand (Hurn, 2014).
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As the technology upgrades, all recruiters also have to upgrade themselves with the right
recruitment tools that fit the current scenario. Recruiters are also facing the challenge of adapting
to recruitment methodology to latest models (Knight, 2011).
Creating a flexible and strong culture:
Samsung attributing to its goodwill and standards for the advantages of the organization is
concentrating on expanding the viability of the representatives by focusing on giving a positive
work put guaranteeing that the workers are cheerful can develop a brand's inside culture and
enhance the outcome result and additionally make up the organization's goodwill in public
(Kompaso & Sridevi, 2010).
Motivating a respectful enabled and involved workforce:
Employees are valuable assets of an organization and the key to success. Samsung recruits
adroit laborers from various firms and focuses on motivating the employees on regular aspects to
increase their probability of making significant contributions to the organization (Farndale,
Scullion & Sparrow, 2010). The contribution to the highest retention rate in 2015 was only
because each employee is treated like an executive.
Enlarge education and development opportunities:
Samsung emphasizes on making the employees inventive, imaginative and innovative to enhance
their customer’s base. Samsung mainly concerns on enhancing the capability a potential of it
skillful workers rather than training them to do so (Elena, 2014). Samsung sets a unique
benchmark for its organization by enhancing the artistry caliber of the employees as the

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organization believes that their laborers could develop their artistic pursuit for their company’s
welfare on their own and do not require learning and training programs (Maguire, 2016).
Organized governance a business case improvement:
Business integrity is ensured by corporate governance frameworks and compliance mechanism
(Wilden, Gudergan & Lings, 2010). Samsung establishes a business case by recruiting business
pioneers in the arranging procedure and organization. Good corporate governance ensures
adequate disclosure and efficient decision-making to achieve desired objectives as well as the
commitment to the ethical conduct of business.
Advertisement as strategy:
Social media: Using Social Media connections is a prevalent way nowadays of alluring fresh
talent through present networks of workers, customers, and groups. Companies which track
applicant obtaining with help of social media mainly focuses on the area from where the most
candidates are coming in the company.
Mobile application: A mobile application also helps Samsung in finding the right candidate for
its vacant position. Employers can tap into the mobile applicant market, and can look for making
application procedures mobile approachable (Saritas & Kuzminov, 2017).
Conclusion:
From the above report, it is being detailed out that Samsung is facing many recruitment
challenges to hiring its professionals and employees (Hyun-Cheol, 2013). The challenges faced
by it are due to many reasons like lack of skills amongst employees, willingness of workers,
Workforce as much as a-third all over companies is planning to change jobs as better job

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opportunities are available in sectors like professional business services, learning and fitness
services, production, leisure and hospitality, conveyance and warehousing, and administration
and many more. This all creates difficulties for HR manager to hire right employees for the
position vacant. The strategies analyzed above can be useful for Samsung to hire employees.
Recommendation
The recommendations which can be useful for Samsung are striking an abundant equilibrium
between appointments for position requirement versus appointment somebody that's great
regardless of position. In this way one conceivable solution could be HR experts should work
with information examination specialists or HR arrangement sellers to comprehend what
different information focuses mean and how the division can tackle them. Be that as it may,
analytics remains a big test for some HR experts (Gebauer, et al., 2010). The other
recommendations which can enhance the hiring of Samsung are workforce planning which is the
most strategic people management activity to take place within an organization. Samsung can
take into account the workforce planning to interpret all inclusive abilities, business data, and
outside workforce fragment data into workable encounters to be shared by business pioneers for
management.

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