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Tutorial 04 - Recruitment, Selection

Seahorse Shipping Ltd is experiencing high employee turnover, with 80% of new hires leaving within 6 months. The Finance Manager handles all recruitment and often hires relatives and acquaintances. Recently, Mr. Nimal was hired as Business Development Manager based on promises to develop business in Germany, but after 5 months he failed to send any containers. As an HR consultant, recommendations must be made to improve recruitment, selection, and performance management to address the company's issues.

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Tutorial 04 - Recruitment, Selection

Seahorse Shipping Ltd is experiencing high employee turnover, with 80% of new hires leaving within 6 months. The Finance Manager handles all recruitment and often hires relatives and acquaintances. Recently, Mr. Nimal was hired as Business Development Manager based on promises to develop business in Germany, but after 5 months he failed to send any containers. As an HR consultant, recommendations must be made to improve recruitment, selection, and performance management to address the company's issues.

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Tutorial 03 – Recruitment, Selection

Read the case study and answer the questions below

Seahorse Shipping Ltd

Seahorse Shipping Ltd is a company which handles shipments from Sri Lanka to Germany. It is
a profitable company which has achieved a remarkable growth during the last two years. The
company has 95 employees. Mr. Perera, the Finance Manager is handling all recruitments in the
company. Most of the employees whom he has recruited were his relatives and the ones who are
known to him. This company has around 15 vacancies at any given time and 80% of new
hirees are leaving within the first six months.

Mr. Perera participated with an export exhibition in Germany and he met Mr. Nimal who was
residing in Germany and running a Catering Service at the time. Mr. Nimal had strong contacts
with most of the tea importers in Germany and his intention was to come back to Sri Lanka to
settle down. As this was a golden opportunity for him to find a job in Sri Lanka, he impressed
Mr. Perera that he could develop business in Germany, if he is offered a job at
Seahorse Shipping Ltd. Mr. Perera was pleased to hire him and requested him to send an email
indicating a list of importers known to him in Germany with whom he could develop the
business. Further he mentioned that if he was offered a job at Seahorse Shipping Ltd., he would
be able to ship 20 containers to Germany per month.

Three months later Mr. Nimal came to Sri Lanka for good. He was offered an employment, a
permanent contract with six months probation at Seahorse Shipping Ltd. as the Business
Development Manager. His monthly salary was Rs. 125,000/=, vehicle allowance Rs. 50,000/=,
fuel allowance Rs. 30,000/= and telephone call limit was Rs. 25,000/= (IDD). Most of his time
was spending on the telephone conversations to his clients in Germany. After three months, Mr.
Perera called Mr. Nimal for a meeting and to evaluate the progress. They found that Mr. Nimal
had not imported a single container to Germany during his first three months. Mr. Perera was not
pleased over the performances of Mr. Nimal and warned him verbally. Further he gave another
two months for him to perform. After five months, Mr. Perera evaluated the performances of Mr.
Nimal and found he had not sent a single container. When Mr. Perera questioned Mr. Nimal as to
why he had nor performed, Mr. Nimal’s reply was “I tried my best but I couldn’t”. The Total
Cost of Mr. Nimal to the company was Rs. 300,000/= per month.

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Exercise:

1. Identify and analyze the issues involved in the case.


2. How could Seahorse Shipping Ltd. ensure right number of people, at the right jobs, at the
right times?
3. Assume you are hired as a HR Consultant. Make recommendations to overcome the
problems.

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