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  The Interview Many of us have or will sit in a waiting room with our best clothes on awaiting a job (or school) interview. You can feel your palms sweat and thoughts race as you wait for your name to be called. You look around at the office environment and...

There are three broad theories of good job design related to human motivation: job relevance, job enlargement, and job enrichment. In order for employees to have a sense of accomplishment in their work, “the job needs to be designed so that the tasks have a cl...

Why learn about recruitment and selection strategies, processes, and laws? While we tend to focus on products and experiences—for example, the latest iPhone or streaming series—it’s important to remember that it’s people who make the magic happen. It’s people...

A positive employer brand is important for two primary reasons: it affects an organization’s ability to attract and retain talent and it has financial and productivity implications.             In a Harvard Business Review article, Global VP of Linked...

Job Analysis In order to advertise a job, you first have to understand what that job entails (at least to best current knowledge, as jobs are often shifting in their scope). Job analysis is often done with the help of Industrial and Organizational (I-O) psych...

Technology and Recruiting In a recruiting best practices document, database management systems provider Oracle states that implementation of recruiting best practices and supporting technology “can potentially reduce your time to hire by up to 50 percent and ...

Whether your framework is personnel policies or software settings, the selection process involves moving candidates through the recruiting process and identifying the best candidates for the job. Along the way, screening and assessment techniques are used to e...

Innovatank Case - Chapter 7 - HRM- Planning for and Recruiting Human Resources

Learning Objectives Be able to name and discuss the steps in the selection process. Be able to explain why criteria development is an important part of the selection process. Give examples of types of criteria that can be developed. Describe the advantages...

Purpose of Job Analysis The purpose of job analysis is to establish what a job entails, including the required knowledge, skills and abilities or KSA as well as job duties and responsibilities and the conditions of the job. Job analysis is essential documen...

Principles of Selection Before reviewing resumes and applications, a company must have a clear idea of the person they want to hire for the position. Obviously, the job specifications derived from the job analysis will help to understand the qualifications (K...

The selection of employees is a complex process, involving many important steps. As a result of technological advances and research in psychology, this process has also evolved dramatically over the years. Interestingly, there are two elements of the selection...

Interviewing, like the use of resumes, has been a staple of employee selection for many years. Hiring managers appreciate the first-hand contact with the candidate that the interviews provide. Compared to other selection tools available to companies, interview...

A vast number of KSAO’s can be measured by a well-designed structured interview. However, as mentioned earlier, interviewing can be expensive. In addition, even in the best of cases, it remains a subjective process and biases can influence the interviewers. A ...

The principle of employee selection is relatively simple: HR managers collect current information on candidates to predict the future (i.e., how well they will perform a job). However, predicting future human behaviour is known to be very difficult. People are...

Innovatank Case - Chapter 8 - HRM- Selecting Employees

Identifying Training Gap A training gap exists when there is a variance between desired/required behavior or performance and actual behavior or performance. This gap can occur on an individual, team or organizational level. This gap can reflect a lack of hard...

A job description is a written statement of what a position entails: what is done, how it’s done and under what conditions. Wright State University’s (WSU) Human Resources department notes that “when well-written, [a job description] produces a realistic pictu...

Predicting the demand and supply of labor in the future requires an understanding of not only business requirements and current resource capabilities but the availability or supply of relevant talent in the market. The organization’s demand for labor will be b...

As described in Foundations of Human Resource Management, “employee training is a learning experience that teaches new skills, knowledge, attitudes and behaviors necessary for successful job completion.”[1] That is, the objective of training is to develop or e...