Worker recruitment and selection in the garment and footwear companies in dong nai industrial zones

HO CHI MINH CITY UNIVERSITY OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES -INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SCHOOL OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES GRADUATION PAPER WORKER RECRUITMENT AND SELECTION IN THE GARMENT AND FOOTWEAR COMPANIES IN DONG NAI INDUSTRIAL ZONES Advisor: Mr Student: Class NGO QUOC nUy NGUYEN THI THANH THANH : KA960% IlfflIliI~i Ilflilll~~ill 101000427 HCMC, July 2000 ; " HO CHI MINH CITY UNIVERSITY OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES -INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SCHOOL OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES GRADUATION PAPER WORKER RECRUITMENT AND SELECTION IN THE GARMENT AND FOOTWEAR COMPANIES IN DONG NAI INDUSTRIAL ZONES Advisor: Mr Student: Class NGO QUOC DUT NGUYEN THI THANH THANH : KA960% ,COl THV V/l~:N'V HUFLIT \* "'!~6CHi~ I I '1 i ~GO~' NCU Q( 1'/ '0 '- Primary construction: VND billion: Dong Nai Province Employment Agency: VND billion Long Thanh - Nhon Trach Employment Agency: VND billion The Youth Employment Agency: VND billion >- Equipment: VND billion Besides, there is a need for VND 100 million for program administration expenses for conferences, which includes training, office supplies, controlling Capital for labour surveys, information and program evaluation is also in need The private vocational training facilities should also be concerned by the Government These facilities usually encounter capital shortage and, as a result, their operations are limited A program of privileged Government's loans will benefit both creating jobs for society and sharing the burden in vocational training In addition to the State's supports, the vocational Skdenf:NGDYtN THITHANH THANH GRAODA nON PAP£.R training foundations should be active to mobilize every possible finance source, to Cooperate with other schools and between schools and enterprises • To increase knowledge annual vocational training quality, teachers The authorities appraisals, should be encouraged to update their should issue such policies for vocation training teachers compensation, training, developmen, ecL Materials as for vocational training should also be reformed in accordance with the current technological changes • Programs to market vocational training should be carried out in every secondary and high school as well as popularized on public media The marketing of vocation training will be helpful to balance the structure of skilled workforce and reduce pressures on academic education 3.3.2.3 An employment agency under Dong Nai Industrial zones Authority's management should be established At present, enterprises have to recruit employees through the five employment Yet the quality of their services employment agency operates does not always satisfy enterprises' agencies requirements If an under Dong Nai Industrial zones Authority, it will be totally responsible for the applicants' biographies Moreover, the employment agency will grasp the recruitment they submit investment registration demand right at the time at Dong Nai Industrial Zones Authority In the operation process, the agency will carefully analyze the labour structure of the industrial zones and the province's supply sources to make its service scientific, timely and suitable to the industrial zones development Consequently, the agency will take the initiative at preparing a qualified Stuaent NGUYEN THI THANH THANH Pale?] GRAODA nON workforce as the enteprises' requirement PAP£R At the same time, it will co-operate with the businesses to train the labour force during their production process •: The employment agency's goals • To be a broker to settle the employment demand for both sides: jobs for applicants and qualified human resource for recruiters • To gather the potential of society, enterprises training and education for the enterprises' • To implement the administrative and labourers to develop professional labour demand mechanism reforms and one-door policy in industrial and export processing zones •: The employment agency establishment especially to the garment will be helpful to the industrial zones' enterprises, and footwear companies, which usually have demand for numerous labourers Therefore, the provincial authorities and the Ministry of Labour, War Invalids and social Affairs should create favourable agency establishment 3.3.2.4 conditions for such an employment and operation Projects and policies of accommodation for labourers should soon be studied and implemented With a great quantity of workers, Dong Nai has met difficulties in providing them accommodation The problem should not left to employees, but should be solved by their co-operative enterprises or Government only efforts However, Government regulations play the decisive role At present, such garment and footwear companies Pouchen, Tae Kwang Vina have projects for labourers' Skdenf:NGDY£N THITHANH THANH with huge finance potential as accommodation Similar to many GRADOA nON PAP£R other enterprises, they are waiting for the approval of Government Decision on encouraging to provide accommodation give big preferences for labourers in the concentrated industrial zones The Decision will to the enterprises which establish accommodation Accommodation is certainly a problem for the province's investors The Government's for labourers Government, workers and measures are necessary to solve the problem as soon as possible The solutions are very significant to enterprises with numerous workers They particularly create favourable conditions for the garment and footwear companies' their human resource management SfudentNGOY£N THI THANH THANH recruitment as well as GRAOOA TION PAP£R CONCLUSION The study is designed to analyze the worker recruitment and selection of the garment and footwear companies in Dong Nai industrial zones To achieve this objective, concepts of recruitment and selection and a generalization of those activities in Vietnam are introduced in the first Chapter This is followed by an overview of the province, the garment and footwear companies and then their process of recruiting and selecting workers in reality The third Chapter deals with favourable Some proposals to improve its efficiency circumstances and difficulties of the process are then suggested to the companies and the Government The study reveals that the garment and footwear companies workers They playa key role in providing jobs for the province employ a big quantity of and other neigbouring areas The companies have tried to improve human resource management accommodation, labour relation, training, working accident insurance, etc These tasks are also facilitated with the Government's Worker in such fields as salary, recruitment supports and selection process, one of the most important activities of garment and footwear companies, is generally considered very simple in theory but actually complicated when being applied The disadvantages the companies and Government of the process vary and for this reason, have been facing problems to achieve effective human resource management In the coming years, labourers increase for the companies' in the garment production Siuden/: NGUY£N THI THANH THANH expanding, and footwear the number industry will certainly of projects coming into GRAOOA nON: PAP£.R operation and the fast development increase will have considerable of new industrial zones in the provlllce The labour influences on the provincial development and also affect the existing garment and footwear companies The increase in both demand and supplies will also make the recruitment and selection activities plentiful Therefore, tasks should be soon corrected by the co-operative the shortcomings of these efforts of which the Government's role to the current problems are decisive factors The garment and footwear companies in Dong Nai industrial zones are very significant for both the locality management and the country's economy Of various influencing the of the companies and Government, human resource is always considered as one of the most precious assets Human resource management recruitment factors in these companies, especially the and selection process, should be supported with proper policies and regulations In so doing, the economic growth of Dong Nai province overall development Sfudenf:N:GOY£.N: Tal TaAN:a TaAN:a will greatly contribute to the national GRADOA 110~PAP£R REFERENCES Boddy, D (1998) Management Europe: Prentice - Hall Cascio, W.P (1998) Applied psychology in human resource management (5th ed.) 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