Chapter 1: An Introduction to Recruitment and Selection Flashcards
What does SHRM stand for?
Society for Human Resource Management
Signs you made a bad hire?
-Not having the required skills
-Constantly complaining
-Conflicts with coworkers
-Missed deadlines
-Poor work quality
-Attendance problems
-Underperformance
-Decrease in morale
-Unhappiness
-Always on your mind
What should you do with a bad hire?
- Train them to adapt to your organization
- Transfer then to a different position where they are better qualified
- Terminate their employment
What are “best practices”?
Valid, reliable, and legally defensible. They must comply with relevant legislation.
Best practices are…
- supported by empirical evidence
- do not involve hunches or guesses
- involve the ethical treatment of job applicants
- result from HR
Recruitment and selection make up only one component of an HR system that must…
(a) align with the organization’s vision, mission, and values(as expressed through its strategic objectives)
(b) comply with legislative requirements
(c) adapt to social-economic forces
HR, as a system, is embedded within a larger system(the organization), which itself is embedded within an even larger system(its external environment)
Organizational effectiveness is benefited when all three systems operate in synchrony
Talent Management definition
Capturing an organization’s commitment to recruit, hire , develop, and retain talented employees. It describes an organization’s commitment to aligning all its HR practices and processes(called High-Performance Work System [HPWS]) toward building and maintaining a high performance workforce.
7 Categories of Talent Management
- Recruitment and Selection
- Strategic HR Planning
- Training and Development
- Succession Planning
- Compensation and Benefits
- Performance Management
- Career Management
Human Resources Information Systems(HRIS)
HRIS are computer-based systems that track employee data, the needs of HR, and the requirements and competencies needed for different positions. Generally bundled with payroll and accounting functions
Recruitment
Is the generation of an applicant pool for a position or job to provide the required number of candidates for a subsequent selection or promotion program.
Selection
Is the choice of job candidates from a previously generated applicant pool in a way that will meet management goals and objectives as well as current legal requirements.
Bad hires can cost the organization…
as much as 30% of a new hire’s earnings
Effective recruitment and selection practices…
identify job applicants with the appropriate level of knowledge, skills, abilities and other requirements for successful performance in a job
Effective recruitment and selection strategies…
flow from an organization’s strategic objectives
Strategic Planning Process relevant to R&S
- vision, mission, and values statements
- develop strategic objectives
- analyze the environment
- identify the competitive edge
- determine the competitive position
- implement the strategy
Vision statements
convey an organization’s aspirations, describing a desirable future state that serves to guide the organization’s behaviour
Mission statements
convey the core purpose of the organization; they define the organization’s business; and they are the guiding force that provides employees with a direction, purpose, and context
A value statement
expresses an organization’s core beliefs so that staff and clients are aware of its priorities and goals
Strategy
is the formulation of action plans for achieving an organization’s goals
Analyze the environment
- Legislative environment (R&S must follow laws and regulations)
- Global competition
- The economic climate (economic booms lead to skilled labour shortages)
- Rapid advances in technology and the internet
- Changing workforce demographics (66.5% are 18-64, and 28.3% are 45-64)
- Type of organization (public or private)
- Organizational restructuring (technology is reducing the need for labour)
- Redefining jobs (employees change jobs often)
- Unionized work environments
What does the environmental scan include?
- Knowing changes in employment law and government regulations
- Markets (domestic and global)
- Economic climate
- Advances in technology
- Workforce demographics
Visible minorities compromise
22.3% of the Canadian population, and Aboriginal people make up 6.2%
Types of organizations?
- Public sector: both federal and provincial have more formalized R&S systems, and they are highly unionized
- Private sector: R&S vary by the type and size of the business or industry. Smaller organizations use family or friends connections, and larger organizations use more formal R&S.
