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Policy Analysis and Development, The Case of Samsung

Introduction

Recruitment can be defined as the procedure of attracting top leading talent with right experience, right skills and right attitude (policy analysis). Recruitment and selection policy refers that the process of talent hunting starts from recruitment and it will follow by selection and continue until induction. An organization must have accurate and perfect recruitment and selection policy so that it may have the best talent across the globe. The aim of this report is to develop an HRM policy for the organization and for this purpose, Samsung is selected for the policy development and analysis. Samsung has the robust recruitment and selection policy which is the core competency of their success. The report will analyze and develop the recruitment and selection policy for the organization.

Policy Analysis

This section will demonstrate the internal and external issues that may affect the recruitment and selection policy of the organization.

 

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Internal Issues Analysis

Internal issues are the ones on which organization have control over and which affects the recruitment functions of the organization. The internal issues refer to the following:

1.1.1.1 Organizational objectives: The organization have some objectives that they want to achieve from their recruitment and selection policy. These objectives may be vary according to the size of the organization (Abbas, 2020). In our case, Samsung has the organizational objective to attract the best talent to the organization across the globe.

1.1.1.2 HR Strategies: The organization have human resource strategies which helps them to have a competitive advantage over their competitors (Ali, 2019). Samsung have a strategy regarding recruitment and selection policy which aims toward attracting the fresh graduates and professional across the globe to bring innovation to the organization.

1.1.1.3 Ethical Treatment of Employees: Samsung always prevent any type of discrimination in their recruitment and selection policy (Basak & Khanna, 2017). The organization recruit and select the individual based on their competency not on the race, religion, culture and ethnicity they belong to.

1.1.1.4 Ethical Business Practices: While developing recruitment and selection policy, Samsung always consider ethical practices in their policy (Diaz-Fernandez, 2017). Being ethical throughout the process of recruitment and selection is the reason that professional and fresh graduate across the globe prefer Samsung for continuing their professional career.

1.1.1.5 Organizational Culture: The corporate culture of Samsung emphasis on accomplishing the high degree of innovation through effective human resource strategy (Putri & Ekowati, 2019). Thus, the recruitment and selection policy of the organization aim towards attracting the innovative and creative candidate in the organization.

1.1.1.6 Corporate Social Responsibility: Samsung is well known for its practices towards the betterment of the society. The recruitment and selection policy of the organization includes the recruiting and selecting of individual from underprivileged areas as well.

1.1.1.7 Size of the Organization: The recruitment and selection policy is affected by the size of the organization (Jacobson & Lambright, 2018). In our case, if Samsung is planning to expand its business they will need to hire more staff to manage their operations.

1.1.1.8 Costing: The recruitment and selection process also costs to the organization. That’s why Samsung outsource most of their recruitment function to reduce the cost on initial selection process

External Issues Analysis

The external issues are those factors which are beyond and cannot be controlled by the organization. Some of the external issues also affecting the recruitment and selection policy of the Samsung which are mentioned below.

1.1.2.1 Unemployment Rate: This is the element that influence the most to the recruitment and selection policy of any organization. The unemployment rate increases when the organization are not providing job opportunities but there is consistent supply of fresh graduate in the region (KRANTHI, 2019). Samsung have contributed to minimize the unemployment rate in the region where they are operating but still it is the major external issue they are facing while developing recruitment and selection policy.

1.1.2.2 Labour Market: The condition of employment where organization operated will affect the recruitment and selection procedure of the organization. For example, Samsung operates in Vietnam which has low unemployment rate and the same organization if operates in Egypt where unemployment rate is high. So, the policies of recruitment and selection for both the region will be different (McDonald, 2018).

1.1.2.3 Supply and Demand: The availability of skilled workforce both outside and within the organization is a crucial factor of recruitment and selection policy of the organization. Samsung always try to balance the supply and demand of the manpower through its effective policies regarding recruitment and selection.

1.1.2.4 Political and Legal Environment: The political environment of the region where the organization is operating affects thee recruitment and selection policies (Joshi, 2016). Samsung has operated in more than 60 countries across the globe and the political scenarios are varying according to the region so the policies of recruitment and selection will also vary.

1.1.2.5 Anti-discrimination: It is another external factor which is beyond the control of the organization and affects the recruitment and selection policy. As Samsung operates across the globe thus they need to prevent the discrimination and biasness at every stage of the recruitment and selection process (Mira & Choong, 2019).

High Priority Issues

This section will highlight the two high priority issues which will need to respond in the policy development section. The high priority issues are those which needs to be respond as quickly as possible because it affects the performance of the organization in negative way. The report has identified one issue from each internal and external factors which are costing and anti-discrimination respectively. The reason for selecting these issues is that reducing the cost is the ultimate objective of any organization and to reflect the goodwill of the organization, it is important to address the issue of discrimination at every phase of recruitment and selection policy.

Policy Problem

Though Samsung has the effective recruitment and selection policy, but there is need to amend some section of their policy regarding outsourcing and adopting effective methods to reduce the cost of recruitment. On the other hand, discrimination section of the Samsung’s recruitment policy also needs to be amended as they are expanding their business into different regions of the world.

 

 

Policy Development

Overview

HR policy development is the procedure which states the rules and code of conduct which govern the organization to maintain its relationship with employees. This part of the report will help Samsung to develop and amend their HR policy for the above identified internal and external issues.

Policy Scope

The scope of the policy determines the level of management upon which these policies will be implemented. The recruitment and selection policy of Samsung implements across the organization from upper to lower management involved in the hiring process. This policy will also apply to the job candidates.

Policy Statement

The statement of recruiting and selection procedure of Samsung states that, “hire the right candidate with right skill at the right cost on the right time at the right position.”

Contextual Factors

Antidiscrimination Policy

• Samsung will be committed to encouraging diversity and equality in their recruitment and selection process.
• The recruitment and selection policy of the Samsung will aim towards bringing well motivated and diverse workforce where all employees will be treated equally.
• Samsung will ensure through its effective and unbiased recruitment and selection policy that it will promote equality and prevent discrimination.
• The recruitment and selection policy of the Samsung will ensure that no one will treated unequally than other on the basis of their religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation other biasness.
• Through this policy, Samsung will ensure to attract the bright talent and professions across the globe regardless of their cultural, religious and ethnic beliefs.
• The recruitment and selection policy will help each candidate to reach the potential which will benefit the organization and as well as to the candidate.
• Samsung will achieve its organizational objective of promoting diversity in their business through recruitment and selection policy.

Policy Application

• To encourage the equal opportunities and diversities in the selection and recruitment process, all the interviews and tests will be conducted under the well trained professionals.
• The diversity and equal opportunity will reflect by the job advertisement. There will be no such statement present on the advertisement which will deny our objectives of antidiscrimination policy.
• Samsung will advertise their jobs on the platforms where minority may easily access the job opportunity.
• Human resource team of Samsung will monitor the application of policy and recruitment and selection data annually.

Costing Policy

• Samsung will aim towards reducing its cost by outsourcing the some part of its recruitment and selection process.
• The recruitment and selection process will identify the best human resource consultant in the region.
• There are several hidden fees during the recruitment process i.e. advertising agency fees, third party recruiter fees, which will be reduced through the recruitment and selection policy.