VIETNAM ACADEMY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
GRADUATE ACADEMY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
NGUYEN THI OANH
HUMAN RESOURCES TRAINING IN
MANUAFACTURING AT SOUTH KOREA’S
ENTERPRISES IN VIETNAM
Major: Business Administration
Major code: 9 34 01 01
SUMMARY OF DOCTORIAL THESIS
IN BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
HA NOI - 2020
The thesis was completes at Graduate Academy of Social Sciences
Academic Supervisor: 1. Prof. Dr. Ngo Xuan Binh
2. Dr. Bui Ton Hien
Reviewer 1: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Ngoc Son
Reviewer 2: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ngo Quang Minh
Reviewer 3: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Tran Huu Cuong
The thesis is defended against Academy-level Examination
Board at Graduate Academy of Social Sciences
Time: ………… date………month……….year 2020.
The thesis can be found at: National Library of Vietnam and
Library of Graduate Academy of Social Sciences.
LIST OF AUTHOR'S SCIENCE WORKS
1. Demand for high quality human resources of Korean enterprises
investing in Vietnam, Review Finance, Month 10/2017, ISSN: 005-56,
Tr.54-56
2. High quality human resource training solutions for Korean enterpries
investing in Vietnam, Viet Nam Trade and Industry Review, Month
11/2017, ISSN: 0866-7756, Tr.153-157
3. Factors affecting training production workers at enterprises in Vietnam,
The international journal of business and management, Vol 7, IS 11. ISSN:
2321-8916.
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PREFACE
1. Necessity of the thesis
Karl Marx said that: "Human is the most important factor of labor
forces", playing a critical role in the socio-economic development. Today,
with the science and technology development, the world has experienced
the Industry 3.0 and Industry 4.0, the role of human resources is undeniable.
With high-quality skills, human resources plays a key role in the
industrialization and modernization of the country. The workforce has faced
with a substantial and comprehensive transition in production activities,
from manual labor to trained labor and equipped with advanced and modern
technologies, devices and methods to create high labor productivity and
qualitative changes in all social activities1
Industry 4.0 with technological advancements, requiring new
qualitative changes in term of human resources, which was seen as
unskilled human resources, not require high technology. However, the
current technological developments have forced them to change to go with
requirements of modern production lines.
With a young human resources and stability, Vietnam has become an
attractive and safe destination for foreign investors. According to the
General Statistics Office of the 125 countries and territories with new direct
investment projects licensed in Vietnam in 2019, South Korea is the leader
with a total investment of USD 7.92 billion, accounting for 20.8% of total
investment in Vietnam. The development of South Korea’s enterprises '
factories in Vietnam requiring a large amount of skilled workforce, which is
a great opportunity for unskilled labor in Vietnam.
1 https://www.nhandan.com.vn/giaoduc/item/27199202-cong-nghiep-hoa-hien-dai-
hoa-va-yeu-cau-doi-voi-giao-duc-dai-hoc-hien-nay.html
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However, in fact, the preparation of the above said human resources
to receive employment opportunities in Vietnam is very low. The physical
health condition of Vietnamese workers is weak at average level, both in
height, weight as well as strength and flexibility, not meet the working
conditions and the requirements for operation of machineries and
equipment following international standards. The labor disciplines of
Vietnamese people in general has not met the requirements in the industrial
production process. It is therefore, most big enterprises have to train
employees in both knowledges, skills, and attitudes, etc. before start of
work. Today, training courses at enterprise is the main solution which are
the foreign enterprises normally conducted to assist workers adapt quickly
to industrial production activities as well as improving labor productivity.
This training process consumes a lot of time and costs of the enterprises,
but there still remains many outstandings in all activities from the
organizing to content of the training such as qualifications and attitudes of
those who come from low educational backgrounds or low socio-economic
background; small enterprises do not have a long-term training plans and
trainners do not have high knowledges, most of the trainnings are often
mentorship.
The research “Human Resources Training in Manuafacturing at
South Korea’s enterprises in Vietnam" is an in-depth and practical research,
in order to support new South Korea’s enterprises entering the Vietnamese
market and local companies to overview the current status of human
resouces training in manuafacturing. From lessons learnt, each enterprise
will develop their own training plans and roadmaps for their employees to
access quickly to the enterprise’s requirements to improve productivity in
their business.