"Why is effective recruitment and selection important to organisations? Which selection techniques are the most useful and why?"

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“Why is effective recruitment and selection important to organisations? Which selection techniques are the most useful and why?”

This essay will inform people how effective recruitment and selection methods are important to organisations. It will also enlighten people on the different techniques that are used for selection purposes as well as which method is the most useful and why it is useful.

Recruitment is a procedure that is undertaken in order to fill in a gap in the management and selection can be described as an assessed procedure in order to select a candidate that is most suitable for the position in hand.

 

The main aim of recruitment and selection is to aid the decision making of the upper management to fill a gap; it helps them find the right candidate with the right qualifications and skills to be able to do the job not taking in to consideration their race, age, gender, colour or nationality. This is important as it is a fair, effective and in good practice.

The recruitment and selection process is important to all organisations but at the same time there can be implications towards the organisational health and success i.e. costs that may incur in case a wrong decision are made, decisions made on dismissing a member of staff on false pretences. The overall cost for this process can vary and end up being very large.

The recruitment process is usually started when someone in the management leaves and this opens up an opportunity to a person with the same or more amount of qualifications and experience to fill this position. Some organisations may even analyse the position and try and promote someone to fill the space or even spread the responsibility amongst other members of staff in the same department if they think that they do not need someone new and the work load can be managed by other members of staff. In order for this to be carried out managers need to consider the vacancy very carefully.

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Recruitment process can be expensive; this is why managers need to think carefully before starting the process. Only if it is considerably necessary for the organisation to fill the position, will they start it. It is also very time consuming as well and a lot of consideration will need to be taken by the managers in order to choose the right candidate. This applies to the Michigan model, as this model describes an organisation as using their employees as much as they can but at the same time they are very money conscious. So starting the recruitment process will ...

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