HRM practices to boost employee performance in Cambodia's trading sector.
Published on IEEE Xplore: an HRM framework for Cambodia’s trading sector
We are proud to share that the research paper of our student Chheng Sovannarith has been officially published in the 2025 IEEE TEMSCON-ASPAC proceedings on 13 May 2026. The study, “Exploring The HRM Framework for Enhancing Employee Performance in Cambodia’s Trading Sector,” is now available worldwide on IEEE Xplore.
From Cambodian trading firms to the IEEE record
Chheng Sovannarith, a student of the Department of Automation & Supply Chain Systems Engineering, presented this work at the 4th IEEE Technology and Engineering Management Society Conference: Asia-Pacific (TEMSCON-ASPAC 2025), held from 14 to 16 September 2025 in Bangkok, Thailand.
The paper was presented as Paper 43 in Track 4 — Entrepreneurship, Business Models and SocioEconomic Impacts, and the full text has since been indexed on IEEE Xplore, placing the work of an ASCSE student alongside research from universities across the Asia-Pacific region.
Big congratulations to Chheng Sovannarith and to the co-authors, Lonh Piseth and Tieng Kimseng, for their hard work and persistence.
What makes people perform in a trading firm
The paper examines how Human Resource Management (HRM) practice affects employee performance and business growth in Cambodian trading firms, and builds an HRM framework for recruitment and selection, training and development, keeping and compensation. It draws on in-depth interviews with HR managers and executives from three trading firms of different sizes, then compares the practices across the cases.
Systematized recruitment, performance assessment and employee training courses are the key factors behind employee satisfaction, retention and business success. The study recommends centralised HRM update resources, reasonable gestation periods for new procedures, and better HRM advisory services for small and medium-sized enterprises.
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Key details
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| Title | Exploring The HRM Framework for Enhancing Employee Performance in Cambodia’s Trading Sector |
| Lead author | Chheng Sovannarith, Royal University of Phnom Penh |
| Co-authors | Lonh Piseth, Tieng Kimseng |
| Conference | 2025 IEEE Technology & Engineering Management Conference — Asia Pacific (TEMSCON-ASPAC) |
| Dates & venue | 14–16 September 2025, Bangkok, Thailand |
| Session | Parallel Session Day 1, Session 09 · Track 4: Entrepreneurship, Business Models and SocioEconomic Impacts · Paper 43, Phra Erawan Room |
| Publisher | IEEE |
| Published on IEEE Xplore | 13 May 2026 |
| DOI | 10.1109/TEMSCON-ASPAC65329.2025.11512167 |
| Article link | ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11512167 |
“Research grounded in Cambodian firms, presented in Bangkok and read worldwide — this is exactly the path we want our students to take.”