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Transforming Human Resource Management in a Korean Chaebol: A Case Study of Samsung

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Authors: Pucik, Vladimir; Lim, Jun-Cheol

Source: Asia Pacific Business Review, Volume 7, Number 4, Summer 2001, pp. 137-160(24)

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/713999111

This contribution discusses the evolution of human resource management (HRM) practices and trends in the Korean chaebols. It explains in detail the causes of the HRM transformation at Samsung in the early 1990s, focusing in particular on employee selection, performance appraisal, grading and promotion and pay systems. Finally, it discusses how the emerging HRM structures and systems fared during the recent economic crisis and their prospects for the near future.

Keywords: Korea; Samsung; chaebol; human resource management; transformation

Document Type: Research Article

Publication date: 01 June 2001

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