Recruitment selection & training of

Workers Chapter 8
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 What is “Human Resources Department”?
The Business department that deal in finding, screening, recruiting and training the new
employees, as well as administering employee payroll system

Roles, functions, duties and responsibilities of HRD

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 Recruitment and Selection

“The process of attracting job applicants from would-be

employees is referred as RECRUITMENT”.

“Whereas SELECTION is the process of selecting a qualified

person who can successfully do a job and deliver valuable
contributions to the organization”.

Selection is the process of selecting a qualified person who can successfully do a job and deliver
valuable contributions to the organization. A selection system should depend on JOB ANALYSIS.
This ensures that the selection criteria are job related and will provide meaningful organizational
value
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 First thing to do when a business think they need to hire some one ?

A job analysis identifies and records the

responsibilities and tasks relating to a job.

Where as a job description is list of tasks that a person

might to execute tasks, or functions, and
responsibilities of a position.

How can we use the job description ?

• It is given to the candidates for the job so they know exactly what the job entails.
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• It will allow a ,job specification to be drawn up, to see if the candidates 'match up to the job',
so that people with the right skills will be employed.
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• Once someone has been employed, it can be used as appraisal

 JOB SPECIFICATION
A job specification defines the knowledge, skills and abilities
that are required to perform a job in an organization. These
can be determined by performing a detailed job analysis and
its corresponding description. The job description will usually
include:

•The level of educational qualifications

•The amount of experience and type of experience
• Special skills, knowledge or particular aptitude
• Personal characteristics, such as type of personality.
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 “The process of attracting job applicants from would-be employees
is referred as RECRUITMENT”.
• Internal recruitment is when the business looks to fill the
vacancy from within its existing workforce.
• External recruitment is when the business looks to fill the
vacancy from any suitable applicant outside the business.
Some time it is also referred as internal opportunity

Internal Recruitment

• Moral amongst the employees is raised. • Inbreeding take place.

• Save cost of advertising a vacant post • Create dissatisfaction amongst employees
• An internal employee’s ability can be who are not promoted
assessed much better. • Political infighting for promotion
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• Can work as motivator for good • Require a strong management

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External Recruitment
 What are the sources of recruitment ?
Internal Recruitment External Recruitment

 Transfer  Press Advertising

 Promotion  Educational Institutes
 Upgrading  Recruitment Agencies
 Demotion  Employment exchange
 Retired Employees  Labor Contractor
 Retrenched Employees  Employee referral
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 Dependent or Relative of Deceased  Recruitment at sight of the location

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employees. of the business

 Job Interview
What do you see in this picture

An interview is a conversation between two or more

people where questions are asked by the interviewer to
elicit facts or statements from the interviewee.
We can say that a job interview is a type
of employment test that involves a conversation between
a job applicant and representative of the employing
organization. Interviews are one of the most popularly
used devices for employee selection.

The purpose of a job interview is two fold: It offers the employer valuable insight into your personality
and abilities, and it allows you the chance to discern whether your credentials and career goals match up
with what the company seeks. Other purposes of an interview are the following

 The applicant’s ability to the job

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 Any personal qualities that an advantage or disadvantage

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 The general character and personality of the applicant – will he fit in?
 Prospect employee ? What do you see in him ?
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 Its an organized activity aimed at providing information or
instructions to improve the employee’s performance or to help him to
attain a required level of knowledge or skill.

The process of increasing the knowledge and skills of the

workforce to enable them to perform their jobs effectively

Why an employee need training?

• Support for new employees

• Improve productivity
• Increase marketing effectiveness
• Support higher standards of customer service and production quality
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• Introduction of new technology, systems or other change

• Address changes in legislation
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• Support employee progression and promotion

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 How Can an employer provide training to the employee ?

 Induction Training
 On-the-job Training
 Off-the-job Training

Induction Training

As it is a systematic training that an employee receives when

he/she first joins a business or organization so it may help to
avoid systematic training that an employee receives when
he/she first joins a business or organization

Training provided to new employees by the employer in order to assist in adjustment to

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their new job tasks and to help them become familiar with their new work environment
and the people working around them is referred as induction training
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 On the Job Training
training (OJT) is a form of training taking place in a normal
On-the-job working place or station that means an employee’s
training at the place of work while he or she is doing the
actual job is referred as OJT
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 Off the Job Training
Employee training at a site away from the actual work
environment. It often utilizes lectures, case studies, role
playing, simulation, etc. Off-the-job training is provided
away from the immediate workplace.
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 Workforce Management

The workforce planning is the establishing the

workforce need by the business for the foreseeable
future in terms of the number and skills of employees
required.

Downsizing is referred as reducing the size of a

company by eliminating workers and/or divisions
within the company
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 Redundancy ? Retrenchment ?

Redundancy is referred to process of elimination of jobs or job

categories caused by downsizing or in any other means and Fault
is not on the employee side at all

Dismissal vs Redundancy
Dismissal is when the Redundancy is when the job
employee are removed from no longer exist, so the
the job because of some employee is no longer needed
misconduct or misbehavior
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 Minimum Wage Rate ?
The minimum wage is the lowest wage an employer is
allowed to pay legally. It means workers are
guaranteed a certain hourly pay helping to
reduce relative poverty

 Helps Families
 May increase the unemployment
 Reduce Tax Burdon
 It increase overall business cost
 Reduce unemployment
 Higher turnout rate (indirect impact on business
 May lead to motivate unskilled worked to
cost)
get trained
 No differentiation between skilled and unskilled
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 Increase productivity
workers
 Reduce turnover
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 Minimum Wage UK £ 7.83 = $9.97
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An apprentice means a person who is learning a trade from a skilled employer, having agreed to work for a fixed period at low wages