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How do organizations plan for, recruit, and select human resources?
How do organizations plan for, recruit, and select human resources? (IntroductionToBusiness OP 8D04gAa · 2026-10-07-36573 · Summary of Learning Outcomes) — "re…
Ideas in this flowchart
- Human resource management
- HRM follows a lifecycle from planning and staffing through development, compensation, and employee departure.
- Human resource planning
- Recruitment and selection
- Training and employee development
- Compensation and employment relations
- Employee departure ends the HRM lifecycle.
- Job analysis studies a job’s tasks and duties to support pay decisions, performance standards, hiring requirements, and training design.
- A job description lists job tasks and responsibilities, while a job specification lists the required skills, knowledge, and abilities.
- Demand and internal supply forecasts reveal whether the organization faces a personnel surplus or shortage.
- Recruitment attempts to find and attract qualified applicants in the external labor market.
- Selection identifies applicants with the best qualifications for an open position.
- Is a suitable internal candidate available?
- Internal labor market: firms first seek candidates among their own employees.
- External labor market: firms recruit outside the organization when no suitable internal candidate is available.
- Recruitment branding presents an accurate and positive image of the firm to applicants.
- Recruiting should include women, African-Americans, Native Americans, and others.
- External recruiting channels include local media, college recruiters, executive search firms, job fairs, and company websites.
- Initial selection screening uses an application or résumé, a short structured interview, and possibly aptitude, personality, or skills tests.
- The selection interview examines an applicant’s experience, skills, abilities, education, and career interests.
- Post-interview selection may include background checks, reference checks, physical exams, and drug testing.
- Training and development provide learning situations that increase employees’ knowledge, skills, and job performance.
- Succession planning examines current employees to identify people who can fill vacancies and receive promotions.
- A simulation is a scaled-down version or mock-up of equipment, processes, or a work environment.
- Right-to-work laws state that an employee does not have to join a union.
- Under a union shop arrangement, nonunion workers may be hired but must join the union later.
- A selective strike targets a critical plant and typically stops operations system-wide.
- A shop steward is an elected union official who represents union members to management when workers have complaints.
- Unemployment compensation is a government payment to unemployed former workers.
- Workers’ compensation pays for lost work time caused by employment-related injuries.
