Kia Motors is an automotive company headquartered in Seoul, South Korea with 52,488 employees worldwide. Their vision is to provide innovative, people-oriented mobility and services through environmental management and balanced growth. Their mission is to produce high-quality vehicles using continuous improvement, creativity, and teamwork. The summary discusses Kia Motor's HR functions related to the employee life cycle including recruitment from sources like internal portals and job sites, a compensation system using a bell curve, and an offboarding process when employees voluntarily or involuntarily leave.

1. Function wise Global Trends and Best
Practices in HRM

3. Company Details:
Industry Automotive
Founded 11 December 1944
CEO Song Ho-Sung
Headquarters Seoul, South Korea
Area served Worldwide (except Japan and North Korea)
Number of Employees 52,488
Stock ID 000270 (KRX)
Website https://www.kia.com/

4. Vision and
Mission:
• Vision:
1. Together for a better future: Respecting people and practicing environmental management to
maximize value creation and pursue balanced and shared growth with stakeholders.'
2. Lifetime partner in automobiles and beyond: 'Providing a new space that makes life more convenient
and enjoyable by realizing superlative mobility based on innovative people-oriented, eco-friendly
technologies and comprehensive services
• Mission: To produce the best vehicles exhibiting superior technology, quality, value through spirit of
continuous improvement, creativity, teamwork and value-based relationships they strive for perfection.

5. HR Functions:
Managerial Functions of HRM
Source: https://www.techjockey.com/blog/functions-of-human-resource-management
Operative Functions of HRM

6. HR functions related to Employee Life Cycle

7. Recruitment:
• How?
Sources:
1. Internal Portal
2. Referrals
3. LinkedIn
4. Kia career page
5. Job portals like
Naukari.com

8. Compensation and Benefits:

9. Who?

10. Method used : Bell Curve
Advantages of Bell Curve are:
1.Identify Top Performers through the Bell Curve Grading
2.Identify Suitability of Employees in a Job Position
3.Removing manager bias
Disadvantages of Bell curve are :
1.Loss of Morale
2.Not Suitable for Small Companies
3.Too Rigid

11. Employee Exit and Offboarding:
• Voluntary Separation or Involuntary Separation
• Final Pay
• Return of Property
• Exit Interview
• Maintaining goodwill about the company
• Experience Certificate
• Review and Verification
Source: https://www.greythr.com/downloadable-resource/separation-policy/

12. 1. Do you gives preference to candidate familiar with Korean language?
A: Even though Kia Motors headquarters is based in S. Korea, Indian
Management operates independently. So, Indian Kia motors need not to
communicate on regular basis with Korean Management. Hence no
preference is given to candidate familiar with Korean language.
2. What digital tools software, analytics etc do you use during hiring
process?
A: Not required as no bulk hiring in the current phase at Kia Motors
India.
3. Does the company goes to college campuses for campus placements?
A: Not at the moment but going to start in future.
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14. Company details