Samhwa Paint Introduces New HR System... Unifies Titles to 'Pro'

On June 30, Samhwa Paint Industrial announced that starting July 1, it will abolish the traditional hierarchical title system maintained for 77 years since its founding and implement a new personnel system focused on performance and expertise.

Samhwa Paint unveiled a new personnel system centered on simplifying the title system to foster a horizontal organizational culture, strengthening talent development-oriented performance evaluations, and securing human competitiveness through the introduction of an early promotion system (Fast-Track).

By adopting an integrated title system, team members will uniformly be addressed as "Pro." This move aims to break away from the vertical relationships of the past, such as employee-assistant manager-manager-deputy general manager-general manager, and create a corporate culture that respects free communication regardless of rank or position, as well as individual work autonomy and personality.

To nurture talent, the company will enhance evaluation feedback and newly introduce performance behavior evaluations. Performance behavior evaluation is a method that pre-establishes the abilities, behaviors, and knowledge required for successful job performance and assesses these factors.

An early promotion system will also be introduced. To this end, a promotion points system will be implemented. The promotion points system abolishes the standard tenure for each rank and grants promotion eligibility once a certain number of points are earned. This means that employees can be promoted early based on ability without fulfilling a fixed tenure period.

Additionally, Samhwa Paint has established an internal recruitment system (job rotation system) to create a structure where employees can fully demonstrate their talents.

A representative from Samhwa Paint stated, “We held 42 sessions of personnel system briefings for all employees to build consensus and ensure quick adaptation,”

and added, “We will strengthen monitoring to ensure the new personnel system is well established and continue to communicate with employees continuously.”

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