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GARY DESSLER
Human Resource Management
10866215 Second Semester 2014/2015
Instructor :( Nader AL-qaryuti)
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Copyright © 2015 Pearson Education, Inc.
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1. Explain the main techniques used in
employment planning and forecasting.
2. Explain and give examples for the need for
effective recruiting.
3. Name and describe the main internal sources
of candidates.
Learning ObjectivesLearning Objectives
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4. List and discuss the main outside sources of
candidates.
5. Explain how to recruit a more diverse workforce.
6. Developing and Using Application Forms:
Discuss practical guidelines for obtaining
application information.
Learning Learning ObjectivesObjectives
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Explain the basic steps of Recruitment and Selection
Process?
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The Recruitment and Selection Process
1. Decide what positions to fill through personnel planning and forecasting.
2. Build a candidate pool by recruiting internal or external candidates.
3. Have candidates complete application forms and undergo initial screening interviews.
4. Use selection tools to identify viable candidates.
5. Decide who to make an offer to, by having the supervisor and others interview the candidates.
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FIGURE 5–1 Steps in Recruitment and Selection Process
The recruitment and selection process is a series of hurdles aimed at selecting the best candidate for the job.
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FIGURE 5–2 Linking Employer’s Strategy to Plans
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Planning and Forecasting
Employment or personnel planning– The process of deciding what positions
the firm will have to fill, and how to fill them.
Succession planning– The process of deciding how to fill the
company’s most important executive jobs.
What to forecast?– Overall personnel needs– The supply of inside candidates– The supply of outside candidates
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Forecasting HR Needs
First step in HR planning– Forecast revenue – Estimate the number of persons needed to achieve this
volume
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Forecasting Personnel Needs
1-Trend analysis– The study of a firm’s past employment
needs over a period of years to predict future needs.
2- Ratio analysis– A forecasting technique for
determining future staff needs by using ratios between a causal factor and the number of employees needed.
– Assumes that the relationship between the causal factor and staffing needs is constant
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The Scatter Plot
3- Scatter plot – A graphical method used to help
identify the relationship between two variables.
Size of Hospital Number of (Number of Beds) Registered Nurses
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900 860
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FIGURE 5–3 Determining the Relationship Between Hospital Size and Number of Nurses
Note: After fitting the line, you can project how many employees are needed, given your projected volume.
Hospital Size(Number of Beds)
Number of Registered
Nurses
200 240
300 260
400 470
500 500
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900 860
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Using Computers to Forecast Personnel Requirements
4- Computerized forecasts
– The use software packages to determine of future staff needs by projecting sales, volume of production, and personnel required to maintain a volume of output.
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5- Managerial Judgment
– Managerial judgment considers the following factors that may influence forecasts:
– Projected turnover
– Quality and skills of employees
– Strategic decisions to upgrade quality or enter new markets
– Technological and other changes resulting in increased productivity
– Financial resources available to the department
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Forecasting the Supply of Inside Candidates
Manual systems and replacement
charts
Computerized skills inventories
Qualification Inventories
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1-Qualifications inventories– Manual or computerized records listing employees’
education, career and development interests, languages, special skills, and so on, to be used in selecting inside candidates for promotion.
2- Personnel replacement charts– Company records showing present performance and
promotability of inside candidates for the most important positions.
3- Position replacement card– A card prepared for each position in a company to
show possible replacement candidates and their qualifications
Forecasting the Supply of Inside Candidates
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FIGURE 5–4 Management Replacement Chart Showing Development Needs of Potential Future Divisional Vice Presidents
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Computerized Information Systems 4- Human Resource Information System
(HRIS)– Computerized inventory of information
that can be accessed to determine employees’ background, experience, and skills that may include:
• Work experience codes• Product or service knowledge• Industry experience • Formal education
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The Matter of Privacy of HR Information The need to ensure the security of HR
information– There is a lot of HR information to keep
secure.– Control of HR information can be
established through the use of access matrices that limit users.
– Legal considerations: The Federal Privacy Act of 1974 gives employees rights regarding who has access to information about their work history and job performance.
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Forecasting the Supply of Outside Candidates Factors impacting the supply of outside
candidates– General economic conditions– Expected unemployment rate
Sources of information– Periodic forecasts in business
publications– Online economic projections
• U.S. Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
• Bureau of Labor Statistics• U.S. Department of Labor: O*Net
• Other federal agencies
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Effective Recruiting
External factors affecting recruiting:– Looming undersupply of workers– Lessening of the trend in outsourcing of
jobs– Increasingly fewer “qualified” candidates
Internal factors affecting recruiting:– The consistency of the firm’s recruitment
efforts with its strategic goals– The available resources, types of jobs to be
recruited and choice of recruiting methods– Non-recruitment HR issues and policies– Line and staff coordination and cooperation
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Effective Recruiting
Recruiting Yield PyramidHistorical arithmetic relationships between recruitment
leads and invitees, interviews and offers made, and offers made and offers accepted– Used to calculate the number of applicants
they must attract to hire the required number of employees
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Effective Recruiting
Advantages of centralizing recruitment– Strengthens employment brand– Ease in applying strategic principles.
– Reduces duplication of HR activities– Reduces the cost of new HR technologies– Builds teams of HR experts– Provides for better measurement of HR
performance
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Internal Sources of Candidates
Foreknowledge of candidates’ strengths and weaknesses
More accurate view of candidate’s skills
Candidates have a stronger commitment to the company
Increases employee morale
Less training and orientation required
Failed applicants become discontented
Time wasted interviewing inside candidates who will not be considered
Inbreeding strengthens tendency to maintain the status quo
Advantages Disadvantages
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Internal Sources of Candidates: Hiring from Within
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Finding Internal Candidates
Posting open job positions
Rehiring former employees
Hiring-from-Within Tasks
Succession planning (HRIS)
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Finding Internal Candidates
Job posting– Publicizing an open job to employees (often
by literally posting it on bulletin boards) and listing its attributes.
Rehiring former employees– Advantages:
• They are known quantities.• They know the firm and its culture.
– Disadvantages:• They may have less-than positive attitudes.• Rehiring may sent the wrong message to current
employees about how to get ahead.(to leave and come bac)
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Finding Internal Candidates (cont’d) Succession planning
– The process of ensuring a suitable supply of successors for current and future senior or key jobs.
Succession planning steps: – Identifying and analyzing key jobs.– Creating and assessing candidates.– Selecting those who will fill the key
positions.
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Succession PlanningStep 1: Identify and analyze key jobs
Based on the company’s strategic goals, top management and the HR manager identify what the company’s future key positions will be. They then write job descriptions and specifications for these positions. For instance, if the company plans to expand abroad, it may look for talent in its international division.
Step 1: Identify and analyze key jobs
Based on the company’s strategic goals, top management and the HR manager identify what the company’s future key positions will be. They then write job descriptions and specifications for these positions. For instance, if the company plans to expand abroad, it may look for talent in its international division.
Step 2: Assess candidates
After identifying future key positions, the management team assesses candidates for these jobs. It then provides them with the developmental experience they need in these positions.
Step 2: Assess candidates
After identifying future key positions, the management team assesses candidates for these jobs. It then provides them with the developmental experience they need in these positions.
Step 3: Select those who will fill the positions
Top management selects those who will fill the key positions.
Step 3: Select those who will fill the positions
Top management selects those who will fill the key positions.
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Outside Sources of Candidates
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Advertising
Recruiting via the Internet
Employment Agencies
Temp Agencies and Alternative Staffing
Offshoring/Outsourcing
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On Demand Recruiting Services (ODRS)
Executive Recruiters
College Recruiting
Referrals and Walk-ins
Locating Outside Candidates
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1-Recruiting via the Internet
Advantages• Cost-effective way to publicize job openings.
• More applicants attracted over a longer period.
• Immediate applicant responses .
• Online prescreening of applicants.
• Links to other job search sites.
• Automation of applicant tracking and evaluation.
Disadvantages• Exclusion of older and minority workers .
• Unqualified applicants overload the system .
• Personal information privacy concerns of applicants.
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FIGURE 5–8 Ineffective and Effective Web Ads
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2-Advertising for Outside Candidates
The Media Choice– Selection of the best medium depends on
the positions for which the firm is recruiting.
• Newspapers
• Trade and professional journals
• Internet job sites: global labor markets .
Constructing (Writing) Effective Ads– Wording related to job interest factors
should evoke the applicant’s attention, interest, desire, and action (AIDA) and create a positive impression of the company
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3- Employment Agencies
Public agencies
Private agencies
Types of Employment
Agencies
Nonprofit agencies
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Outside Sources of Candidates (cont’d) Types of employment agencies:
– Public agencies operated by federal, state, or local governments
– Agencies associated with nonprofit organizations
– Privately owned agencies
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Why Use a Private Employment Agency?
Reasons for using a private employment agency:
– When a firm doesn’t have an HR department and is not geared to doing recruiting and screening.
– The firm has found it difficult in the past to generate a pool of qualified applicants.
– The firm must fill a particular opening quickly.
– There is a perceived need to attract a greater number of minority or female applicants.
– The firm wants to reach currently employed individuals, who might feel more comfortable dealing with agencies than with competing companies.
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Avoiding Problems with Employment Agencies
Give agency an accurate and complete job description.
Make sure tests, application blanks, and interviews are part of the agency’s selection process.
Review candidates accepted or rejected by your firm or the agency for effectiveness and fairness of agency’s screening process.
Screen agency for effectiveness in filling positions..
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Temporary Agencies and Alternative Staffing 4-Alternative Staffing
– In-house contingent (casual, seasonal, or temporary) workers employed by the company, but on an explicit short-term basis.
– Contract technical employees supplied for long-term projects under contract from outside technical services firms.
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Temp Agencies and Alternative Staffing Benefits of Temps
– Increased productivity—paid only when working
– Allows “trial run” for prospective employees.
– No recruitment, screening, and payroll administration costs
Costs of Temps– Increased labor costs due to fees paid to
temp agencies,
– Temp employees’ lack of commitment to the firm.
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Working with a Temp Agency
Invoicing. Get a sample copy of the agency’s invoice. Make sure it fits your company’s needs.
Time sheets. With temps, the time sheet is not just a verification of hours worked.
Temp-to-perm policy. What is the policy if the client wants to hire one of the agency’s temps as a permanent employee?
Recruitment of and benefits for temp employees.
Dress code. Specify the attire at each of your offices or plants.
Equal employment opportunity statement.
Job description information..
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Outside Sources of Candidates (cont’d)
5-Executive recruiters (headhunters)
– Special employment agencies retained by employers to seek out top-management talent for their clients.
• Contingent-based recruiters collect a fee for their services when a successful hire is completed.
• Internet technology and specialization trends are changing how candidates are attracted and how searches are conducted.
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External Sources of Candidatespros and cons
Advantages of using executive recruiters:– Able to contact qualified, currently
employed candidates who are not actively looking to change jobs
– Can keep your company’s name confidential until late into the search process.
– Save top management’s time by advertising for the position and screening applicants
– Recruiter’s fee may turn out to be insignificant compared with cost of executive time saved
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External Sources of Candidates
Disadvantages of using executive recruiters:– Employer has to provide
comprehensive explanation of what sort of candidate is required and why.
Some recruiters may be more interested in persuading to the employer to hire a candidate rather than finding one who will really do the job.
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Guidelines for Choosing a Recruiter Guidelines for Choosing a Recruiter
1. Make sure the firm is capable of conducting a thorough search.
2. Meet individual who will handle your assignment.
3. Ask how much the search firm charges.
4. Make sure the recruiter and you agree on what sort of person you need for the position.
5. Never rely solely on the recruiter to do reference checking.
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6- College Recruiting On-campus recruiting goals
– To determine if the candidate is worthy of further consideration
– To attract good candidates
On-site visits– Invitation letters
– Assigned hosts
– Information packages
– Planned interviews
– Timely employment offer
– Follow-up
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College Recruiting and Interns as a Source of Candidates Two main problems
1. It is relatively expensive and time consuming for the recruiters
2. Recruiters themselves are sometimes ineffective
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Sources of Outside Applicants
Employee referrals
Walk-insTelecommut
ers
Other Sources of Outside Applicants
Military personnel
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Outside Sources of Candidates (cont’d)
7-Employee referrals– Applicants who are referred to the
organization by current employees• Referring employees become stakeholders.• Referral is a cost-effective recruitment program.• Referral can speed up diversifying the workforce
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External Sources of Candidates
8-Walk-in– Direct applicants who seek
employment with or without encouragement from other sources.
– Courteous treatment of any applicant is a good business practice.
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Recruiting A More Diverse Workforce
Single parents
Older workers
Welfare-to-work
Minorities and women
The disabled
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Developing and Using Application Forms Application form
– The form that provides information on education, prior work record, and skills.
Uses of information from applications– Judgments about the applicant’s
educational and experience qualifications– Conclusions about the applicant’s previous
progress and growth– Indications of the applicant’s employment
stability– Predictions about which candidate is likely
to succeed on the job
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Developing and Using Application Forms
Employers should carefully review application forms to ensure that they comply with equal employment laws.
Questions to beware of include:– Education– Arrest record– Notify in case of emergency– Membership in organizations– Physical handicaps – Marital status– Housing
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Application Forms and the Law
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Educational Achievements
Notification in case of
emergency
Membership in organizationsPhysical handicaps
Marital status
Housing arrangements
Areas of Personal
Information
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Two-Stage Process
Conditional Job Offer
Is Applicant Qualified?
Make conditional job offer contingent
on meeting all “second stage”
conditions
Review application information,
personal interview, testing, and
do background check
Yes