Human Resources Management Strategies of Taiwan-based Enterprises in Vietnam

Compare Questions: 
The below table is comparison of the response of participant based on the 
interview question that could find out the problems on human capital of their company 
and the solution they are carried out. 
Question 
Region/ Industry 
Problems 
Solutions 
3 
North 
Manufacture/ 
Trading 
As the answer of 
question 2 - High 
turnover rate, hard 
to recruit local 
workers 
1. Adjust the salary, recruit the 
reserved employees which 
means hire the employees 
quantity more than original 
intended 
2. Recruit workers ever worked 
in Taiwan before 
Middle 
Manufacture 
Don’t know
clearly about local 
applicant’s quality 
and educational 
background so 
Recruitment by feeling

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that lead to hard 
to hire real talent 
South 
Manufacture 
Difficult 
recruitment 
employee in rural 
area 
1. Pay high salary
2. Diversity the recruitment 
channel such as post on 
newspaper, advertisement, go 
to universities to recruit 
3. Provide good dormitory, 
cafeteria, shuttle bus, etc. 
4 
North 
Manufacture/ 
Trading 
The labor 
productivity is 
quite good 
No mention 
Middle 
Manufacture 
Normally, the 
labor productivity 
of Vietnamese 
labor is lower
Offer suitable incentive 
strategies such as pay by the 
piece, group bonus, so on. 
South 
Manufacture 
The labor 
productivity of 
Vietnamese is 
lower than 
1. Adjust the way of 
management 
2. Conduct the training and 
education

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Taiwan
The human capital issues of Taiwan-based enterprises in Vietnam mainly 
occurred in employee recruitment and labor productivity. As far as the participants 
described in the interview, they have difficult to recruit local talents as well as a volume 
of workers at their factories are as if suburban, rural, mountain area and even industrial 
zones. Moreover, low labor productivity is also an important matter which companies 
concerned about.