...Recruitment and selection in business P1 – Identify how two organisations plan recruitment using internal and external sources. In this assignment I will be investigating recruitment planning in two big organisation. House of Fraser (HOF) House of Fraser is a British, national organisation within the competitive retail industry. The company sells a variety of products under 5 main departments from Men’s shoes to Furniture to Beauty and electrical. House of Fraser also have their own Wedding list and buy and collect scheme, so people can order online and collect it at the store when the delivery arrives at the store. House of Frazer is a department store group with over 60 stores across United Kingdom and Ireland. And was established in Glasgow, Scotland in 1849. Reasons why vacancies become available at House of Fraser At House of Frazier give a good working environment for their employees. Currently employed 5,000 HOF employees’ staff and 13,000 concession staff. However it occurs that employees leave for reasons such as * Maternity leave would require a temporary employee to cover the position of the women until the member of staff is available to work again. * If there was a long term illness and would require the person to leave work for a period of time, there will need to be a temporary worker appointed to cover for the worker until the member of staff is able to work again. * Termination in the contract...
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...Meaning of recruitment: According to Edwin B. Flippo, “Recruitment is the process of searching the candidates for employment and stimulating them to apply for jobs in the organisation”. Recruitment is the activity that links the employers and the job seekers. A few definitions of recruitment are: • A process of finding and attracting capable applicants for employment. The process begins when new recruits are sought and ends when their applications are submitted. The result is a pool of applications from which new employees are selected. • It is the process to discover sources of manpower to meet the requirement of staffing schedule and to employ effective Measures for attracting that manpower in adequate numbers to facilitate effective selection of an efficient working force Recruitment of candidates is the function preceding the selection, which helps create a pool of prospective employees for the organization so that the management can select the right candidate for the right job from this pool. The main objective of the recruitment process is to expedite the selection process. Recruitment is a continuous process whereby the firm attempts to develop a pool of qualified applicants for the future human resources needs even though specific vacancies do not exist. Usually, the recruitment process starts when a manger initiates an employee requisition for a specific vacancy or an anticipated vacancy. Purpose & Importance of Recruitment: • Attract and encourage...
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...increasing integration and resemblance amongst banks in the financial sector. As a result, banks are now faced with very high and intense competition amongst them (Harvey, 2010). Hence, in order to win this intense competition and maintain their market share of the bank industry; Human resources management is critical to the success of organization because human capital qualities that make it valuable, in sense high quality employees provide that a needed services as they perform capital function and resource of the employer (Donnelly et.al, 1992). Since, human resource management is vital for an organization, to acquire an effective and efficient employee, Recruitment, as a human resource management function, is also one of the activities that impact most critically on the performance of an organization. Therefore, recruitment is the process which has to be done carefully. According to (Weihrich and Koontz, 1994),...
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...IMPACT OF E-RECRUITMENT AND JOB-SEEKERS PERCEPTION ON INTENTION TO PURSUE THE JOBS Naveed R. KHAN Marinah AWANG Arsalan Mujahid GHOURI Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris Tanjong Malim, Perak, Malaysia Email: naveed.r.khan@gmail.com Abstract: The study highlighted the significance of e-recruitment in the firms. In current epoch technology integrated the information in a sophisticated manner and has influenced on every setting of daily affaires. Hence job seekers are also get benefited with the internet era and start searching the jobs on internet. This study examined the relationship between the recruitment sources, job seekers’ perception and intention to pursue the job. Data was collected from 257 respondents and analysed in relation with the research objectives. The findings of the study showed that internet is the most preferred source to search the job among other recruitment sources. Furthermore, it is also suggested that the effectiveness of e-recruitment depends upon the placement of advertisement and salary is the most influential motivator to find interest in the job applied. Lastly, statistics of the study found that the recruitment sources and applicant’s perceptions of job significantly influence the intention to pursue the position applied by the job seeker. Keywords: Human resource management; e-recruitment; online job searching; online job portals; salary. 1. Introduction Electronic revolution and globalization changed the life of...
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...Sources of Employees Cameron Hillerich Professor Everett Colvin BA 313-01: Small Business Management March 28, 2010 Abstract This concept application paper explores the wide variety of sources small business managers have when searching for new employees. This paper will closely examine the advantages and disadvantages of each source which include help-wanted advertising, walk-ins, schools, public employment offices, private employment agencies, executive search firms, employee referrals, internet recruiting, and temporary help agencies. Sources of Employees According to Longenecker, Moore, Petty, and Palich (2008): To recruit effectively, the small business manager must know where and how to find qualified applicants. Sources are numerous, and it is impossible to generalize about the best source in view of the differences in companies’ personnel needs and the quality of the sources from one locality to another. (p.503). I will begin by first informing you about internal recruiting. Management Study Guide (2009) defines internal recruitment as “a recruitment which takes place within the concern or organization. Internal sources of recruitment are readily available to an organization.” In other words, internal recruitment involves filling up a vacant position by using a person already in the company’s payroll. Announcements regarding the open position will be advertised within the company and management will make a decision based on the applications...
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...Acknowledgment RECRUITMENT is the process of attracting individuals on a timely basis, in sufficient numbers and with appropriate qualifications, to apply for jobs with an organization. When HR planning indicates the need for additional labor, organizations have a number of choices to make. This may be the first step in a full-scale recruitment process. There are various types of recruitment methods and procedure of an organization. I have discussed the recruitment procedure of a Customer Care Executive of SQUARE Pharmaceuticals LTD. At first I would like to give a special thanks to my course instructor Abu Hossain Muhammad Ahsan sir, to give this innovative topic for assignment. This assignment helps us to increase skill of Human Resource Recruiting procedure. And I am really pleased to my group members for helping me. Without their helping this paper may not be take the light of sun. Table of contents Introduction 02 Defining Recruitment 02 Sources of Recruitment 04 Factors Governing Recruitment ...
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...The Impacts of Recruitment Practice at Commercial Bank of Ethiopia Chapter One: Introduction This chapter consists of background of the study, statement of the problem, general and specific objectives of the study, significance of the study, scope of the study, limitation of the study and organization of the paper. 1.1 Background of the Study The government of Ethiopia has launched economic reforms, financial liberalization measures and restructuring of financial institutions with the aim of promoting a competitive environment and efficient banking services to the public. The financial sector, with implementation of flexible interest and exchange rates that are market-lead, shows sign of improvement. In addition, the coming in to effect of the Licensing and Supervising Banking and Business Proclamation No. 84/1994 propels the emergence of many private banks in the market since 1994 (Kiyota et.al, 2007). This joined by rapid technological advancement and improved communication systems, has contributed to the increasing integration and resemblance amongst banks in the financial sector. As a result, banks are now faced with very high and intense competition amongst them (Harvey, 2010). Hence, in order to win this intense competition and maintain their market share of the bank industry; Human resources management is critical to the success of organization because human capital qualities that make it valuable, in sense high quality employees provide that a needed services as they...
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...Journal of Management http://jom.sagepub.com Research on Employee Recruitment: So Many Studies, So Many Remaining Questions James A. Breaugh and Mary Starke Journal of Management 2000; 26; 405 DOI: 10.1177/014920630002600303 The online version of this article can be found at: http://jom.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/26/3/405 Published by: http://www.sagepublications.com On behalf of: Southern Management Association Additional services and information for Journal of Management can be found at: Email Alerts: http://jom.sagepub.com/cgi/alerts Subscriptions: http://jom.sagepub.com/subscriptions Reprints: http://www.sagepub.com/journalsReprints.nav Permissions: http://www.sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav Citations http://jom.sagepub.com/cgi/content/refs/26/3/405 Downloaded from http://jom.sagepub.com at Universiteit van Amsterdam SAGE on November 9, 2009 Journal of Management 2000, Vol. 26, No. 3, 405– 434 Research on Employee Recruitment: So Many Studies, So Many Remaining Questions James A. Breaugh and Mary Starke University of Missouri–St. Louis Over the last thirty years, the amount of research on recruitment topics has increased dramatically. Despite this increase, recent reviews of the recruitment literature often have had a somewhat pessimistic tone. Reviewers have concluded that we still do not know a great deal about why recruitment activities have the effects they do. In particular, recent reviews have criticized many of the studies conducted...
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...“A Study On Recruitment Procedure Followed In Fresenius Medical Care (India) Pvt Ltd.” Chapter – I Introduction 1.1. Human Resource Management: Human Resource Management is the management of an organizations work force or Human Resource. It is responsible for attraction, selection, training and assement, rewarding of employee while, also overseeing organizational leadership and culture ensuring with employee and labour laws. The function was initially dominated by transactional work such as payroll and benefits administration but due to globalization, company consolidation, technological advancement and further research. Now Human Resource focus on strategic initiatives like merger and acquisition, talent management, succession planning, industrial and labour relation and diversity and inculsion. It is essential that Human Resource be made an integral part of an organization. Human Resource can be instrumental in developing a full analysis of each division and determining how function like recruiting and employee relation can support new and existing strategies. Human Resource is also an invaluable resource in evaluating how to facilitate the adoption of strategies, recruitment of new talent to sustain them and assure smooth transitions. As we concentrate on recruitment procedure, which is...
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...RECRUITMENT | | A process of finding and attracting capable applicants for manpower requirement. The process started when new recruits are sought. The result is a pool of applications from which new employees are selected. THREE TYPES OF RECRUITMENT a) Planned The needs arising from changes in organization and retirement policy. b) Anticipated Needed when human resource predict manpower requirement by studying internal and external environment. c) Unexpected Resignation, deaths, accidents, illness give rise to unexpected needs. | RECRUITMENT AND SELECTION DIFFERENCES Employment process include both recruitment and selection phases. The differences between selection and recruitment are: 1. Recruitment is the process of searching the candidates for employment and stimulating them to apply for jobs in the organization while selection involves the series of steps by which the candidates are screened for choosing the most suitable persons for vacant posts. 2. The basic purpose of recruitment is to create a talent pool of candidates to enable the selection of best organization while the basic purpose of selection process is to choose the right candidate to fill the various positions in the organization. 3. Recruitment is a positive process. It encourages more and more employees to apply WHEREAS selection is a negative process as it involves rejection of the unsuitable candidates. 4. Recruitment is concerned with tapping the...
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...Effectiveness of Recruitment in Organizations Introduction Recruitment is a ‘linking activity' bringing together those with jobs and those seeking jobs. Companies are now looking out for new ways of giving themselves a competitive advantage. To define recruitment, it is a process of searching for prospective employees and stimulating them to apply for jobs in an organization. It is often termed positive in that it stimulates people to apply for jobs to increase the selection ratio. Selection on the other hand tends to be negative because it rejects a good number of those, who apply, leaving only the best to be hired." Objective Effectiveness of Recruitment in Organizations. Literature Review This project evaluates about various reviews which has been highlighted based on the Effectiveness of Recruitment. This document is referred by P.Joythi, (2006), Robins,D (1998). An abstract is been described further about how Recruitment programs and practices are being held in various Organizations and how it can be handled without any obstacle which helps out professionals to focus on their individual abilities to progress. Compare Inforbase Limited, (2007) Knowledge about recruitment begins from students level itself to make sure that they analyze and get out from fear of facing prospects. Recruitment happens at school levels so as to move in for education and it takes place in colleges too either for higher education or be recruited in a concern. Recruitment is at every level...
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...IT, logistics, marketing and communication, purchasing, restaurant, sales and sustainability and in TQE. (Inter IKEA Systems B.V., 1999 – 2013) 2.0Roles and responsibility of IKEA Human Resource Department The Human Resource (HR) department plays a huge role in the company. In IKEA, the department is responsible to allow and give down-to-earth straight-forward people the possibility to grow as individuals and in their professional roles (IKEA, 2013). They also handle recruitment and training, succession planning and benefits management. The HR team also needs to attract and inspire co-workers. Strengthening and safeguarding the IKEA culture is also one of their jobs(IKEA 2013). In this report, the recruitment and selection process undertaken by the IKEA’s HR team will be covered in this report. Figure 1 is the organization plan in IKEA. Figure 1: IKEA Organization Plan Source: Extracted from http://www.slideshare.net/OsamaAlbarrak/ikea-strategic-case-study on 15 November 2013 2.1 RECRUITMENT PLAN IKEA as the Swedish furniture chain is planning to open a new branch in Exeter, England. It is expected that the work on the store will start in 2014 depends on the approval by the Exeter City Council. Moreover, the council also stated that...
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...candidates. In order for them to do that we will discuss what the right recruitment plan is and how important it is to have one. We will also discuss briefly on ensuring a candidate will fit in with the cultural fit of the organization. We will also develop an interviewing process that will discuss what a job analysis, a job description and the right fit for an organization is. Lastly, we will note the importance of a competency – based interview. Developing the right recruitment plan is vital to the success of any organization. When developing a recruitment plan it is important to determine the future human resources needs of the organization. Once this has been determined then the recruitment plan should include the number of position, a job description and a work force analysis. The plan should also include time estimates for recruiting, cost for recruiting such as travel expenses for the recruiter, marketing or job advertising, recruitment agency fees, testing and overhead. The final phase in the recruitment plan is to determine how we want the company to be viewed and what the company has to offer. We will need to determine if we are an eco-friendly company, what benefits we offer employees as well as compensation. As a company we need to be attractive to the candidates. We have to make them feel as if our company is the best place in the world to work for. Our company will be flexible in our recruitment efforts by exploring different avenues and getting rid of the ones that...
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...Report ON Recruitment And Selection Submitted in Partial fulfillment of requirement of award of MBA degree of GGSIPU, New Delhi Submitted By: priyanka 015 2010-2012 Northern India Engineering College (Affiliated to GGSIPU) FC-26, Shastri Park, Delhi-110053 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Connection, dedication and application are necessary but not sufficient to achieve any goal. These must be awarded by guidance. This is to express my earnest gratitude & extreme joy on being bestowed with an opportunity to work in an organization as respected and reputed as BHL, Noida. It is impossible to thank personally all the people who have helped me in completion of this informative project, but it would avail this opportunity to express my profound gratitude and indebtedness to the following people:- I am indebted to Mr. Mohan Kumar Sharma (Officer – Group HR, BAJAJ HINDUSTHAN LIMITED) who gave me the opportunity to work with the organization. I am extremely grateful to my guide and project coordinator Mr. Mohan Kumar Sharma (officer– HR) & Mr. Shankar Singh (Sr.Officer –HR) who removed every stumbling block in my endeavor to complete my project successfully. They proved to be a constant source of inspiration...
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