Recruitment and selection in an organization.

  Employee motivation.   Employees are one of the main assets in an organization. A well motivated and enthusiastic work force who are very much engaged in their jobs make up for any organizations’ growth in revenue. Pinder ( 2008), stated that the motivation can be explain as the method which reflect employees persistence ,direction and intensity therefor, motivated employees deliver the maximum commitment to work.  Most employees need motivation to feel good about their jobs and perform optimally. Some employees are money motivated while others find recognition and rewards personally motivating (Ganta,2014). Employees are the main asset in any organization. For this reason, management has to implement different motivation factors to increase productivity (Dugguh, 2014).     Motivated employees usually work out of enthusiasm and respect their job and employer and is easily retained by the organization. Whereas the demotivated employee does not work ou...

  Employee engagement.   In an organization one of its most valuable resources are its work force. Having an work engaged set of employees is critical for its succession in profitability and growth. The concept of employee engagement has been around since the 1990s and according to one of its pioneers; William Khan its defined as “ the harnessing of organization members’ selves to their work roles; in engagement, people employ and express themselves physically, cognitively, and emotionally during role performances”, (Khan,1990). A successful definition of employee engag ement would identify it as the positive state of mind of an employees’, identified by their high likelihood of putting in discretionary efforts to drive the organization towards its goals (Albrecht,2010). {video source Greggu HR basics : employee engagement,2018}   The key drivers of employee engagement identified include communication, opportunities for employees to feed their views upwards and th...

Challenges faced by HR departments in   the modern day.   The recruitment and selection process is one of the most important functions of its HR department which correlates to its success and sustainability. According to Rozario, Venkatramen and Abbas (2019), “ Today’s knowledge economy very much depends on the value created by the human resource of an organisation. In such a highly competitive environment, organisations have started to pay much attention to the recruitment and selection process, as employees form their main asset”. The use of technology and how it has evolved into something which as humans now a days cannot live without , during the past couple of decades has become a very common touch within the hands of any organization. Companies that aspire to sustain their competitive edge, both at present and in the future require human force well equipped with recent techniques and technologies to face the changes and upcoming challenges of 21st century (Nasir,20...

  E-recruitment : Process and benefits in the global context of organizations. With the recent developments in the fields of communication and technology the world wide web has brought the whole world at our fingertips. Hence organizations of the present day have adapted to the usage of the Internet for most of their work processes and transactions. It is in such a scenario that e-recruitment comes into play as the latest process in employee recruitment to an organization. E-recruitment is applying for employment through intranet and Internet (internal and external) to select a prospective candidate (Rudman 2010). According to Omolawal (2015) the entrance of ICT to the HR departments of organizqtions have generated an expanded pool of applicants and making the whole world its catchment area, but has also led to remarkable improvement, efficiency and effectiveness of the recruitment process. The Internet has made the biggest impact on the recruitment landscape from a channe...

Types of psychometric tests used in the recruitment and selection process   In the continuous globalisation of institutions and organizations recruiting and selecting employees have also faced a new generation of processes. As such , psychometric tests play a major role in the latter process now a days. According to Carless (2007) , there is a growing awareness that attracting and retaining talented employees can provide organizations with a sustained competitive advantage. Studies in the domain of HRM have shown that organizations that have adopted selection best practices have increased organizational profitability (Huselid,  1995 ).   Psychometric tests can be divided mainly in to two as Ability tests and Personality tests (Carless,2007). Let’s contrast these two types of tests. Ability tests are typically used to assess verbal, numeric and spatial abilities. Ability test scores are usually reported to client organizations in the form of percentile score...

  Benefits of psychometric tests on recruitment and selection of employees A major challenge faced by most organizations nowadays is selecting the right person to do the job. Hiring a suitable candidate who matches and hosts the qualifications demanded by the job description is one of the immense responsibilities of a HR department of an organization. The aim of selection is to assess the suitability of candidates by predicting the extent to which they will be able to carry out a role successfully (Armstrong,2006). Failure in proper selection will lead to devastating losses to the organization in future, hence most institutions have upgraded their HR departments accordingly   One of the critical elements in the pursuit of outstanding organisational performance, is the selection and development of the best possible staff (Merwe,2000). A selection procedure may be fairly simple or very complex, depending on the nature of the organisation, the task for which individuals are b...