Recruitment and Selection - MacDonalds

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Recruitment and Selection

Both recruitment and selection play an important part for large businesses and issues need to be taken into consideration when recruitment and selection takes place. In the following paragraphs I will explain recruitment and selection by outline the fundamentals used to make the process successful.

Recruitment

Recruitment is the first part of the process of filling a vacancy with in business or organization. It includes examination of the applicant for the vacancy, the consideration of the sources of suitable candidate applicants, making contact with the suitable candidates and receive applications from them.

By the end of 2000, McDonalds employed 49728 people: 46,209 restaurant staff, 2,974 restaurant management and 545 office staff.

Around 18,200 more were employed by McDonalds franchises.

McDonalds is an equal opportunity employer. The ratio is between male and female staff is 56:46

With a target of 100 new stores opening in 2002, McDonalds will create in excess of 6,000 new jobs this year.

Job analysis

In management it is often necessary to obtain and record a description of a job. The description must be kept up to date to take account of changes in the organization or in the technology. Job analysis is the process by which a description of a job is complied. There are many various difficulties associated with job analysis, some practical, some concerned with the attitudes of employees. The following are just some of the methods that can be used:
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Direct observation - this is always necessary and is mainly the managers and team leaders job but has several draw backs:

Interview with the jobholder - this is always necessary, but often difficulties can occur, largely because the worker can be suspicious of the job analysis.

Interview with the supervisor - supervisors are often out of touch with the details of the job, they frequently have never done the job themselves and may do the job in order to increase their own importance.

McDonalds job analysis is carried out by the second assistant ...

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