STUDY UNIT 4 : Recruitment
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Relevant pages
• Chapter 8 :
Recruitment
• See pages 162 - 168
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Objectives
6. Compile a recruitment policy for an organisation.
7. Discuss the factors that influence recruitment.
8. Decide whether internal or external recruitment
sources and methods would be preferable under
specific circumstances.
9. Consider and make proposals on the use of current
and future trends in recruitment.
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6. Compile a recruitment policy for an
organisation.
Recruitment policy - Chapter 8 Page 223 + 224
• Entails attracting potential job applicants
• Reflects organisation’s business strategy
• Ultimate competitive advantage is a workforce
that possesses a unique knowledge base
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Recruitment policy (cont)
• Should include information regarding internal
or external recruitment, possible employment
of relatives, part-time workers, and possible
employment of retired workers
• A workforce with a unique knowledge base
should be the objective
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Recruitment policy (cont)
• Must take into account the corporate
philosophy, organisational mission, strengths,
and weaknesses.
• See example of recruitment policy on
page 224
• Table 8.3
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7. Discuss the factors that influence
recruitment.
• Page 224 (8.7.1)
• External factors cover:
- Government or trade union restrictions
- The labour market itself
• Internal factors cover:
- Organisation’s policy
- Image of organisation.
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8.
Decide whether internal or external
recruitment sources and methods would be
preferable under specific circumstances.
• Page 224 (8.7.1)
• Recruitment sources and methods
• Various options must be considered before
deciding to proceed with recruitment:
- Reorganise work without replacing the leaver
- Use overtime if it is a short-term problem
- Mechanise the work, stagger hours, subcontract work etc.
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Recruitment sources and methods
(cont)
• Internal and external recruitment sources
cover:
- Internal or external recruitment sources
both have advantages and disadvantages
which are presented in Table 8.4. (page
225)
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Internal and external recruitment
• Internal recruitment sources
- Current employees
- Referrals from current employees about
former employees
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Internal and external recruitment
(cont)
• Various external recruitment methods exist:
- Advertisements (must be nondiscriminatory in terms of SA Constitution
and EEO Act)
-
Employment agencies assist with
recruitment of temporary workers
-
Campus recruiting.
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Internal and external recruitment
(cont)
E-recruitment
• The process of recruiting via the intranet
(internally) and the Internet (externally)
• Various potential benefits such as vacancies
which are accessible 24 hours a day etc.
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THE END !!!!
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9.Consider and make proposals on the use of
current and future trends in recruitment.
Current and future trends in recruitment
• Increasing economic volatility, new technology
etc. necessitate better use of resources
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Current and future trends in
recruitment (cont)
• Flexible patterns of work resulted in a wider
range of tasks and abilities require more
multi-skilled employees
• Greater use of part-time and temporary
employees.
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Contingent workers
• Known as temporary workers, part-time workers,
and just-in-time workers
• More productive and less expensive to recruit
and train than permanent workers
• Are flexible and adaptable
• Employed when full-time employees experience
downtimes etc.
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Employee leasing cover
• Some businesses lease employees from a
leasing company
• A leasing company is responsible for hiring,
record keeping, disciplining, paying, and
terminating of employees
• The organisation pays a management fee to
the leasing company.
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Other recruitment trends
• Flexitime provides an alternative work
schedule for employees
• Job-sharing is dividing a full-time job into two
or more part-time positions
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Other recruitment trends (cont)
• A compressed workweek is a schedule with
less than five working days per week
• With telecommuting employee maintains
office at home and carries out all normal
duties, while linked to the organisation via
telephone, fax, personal computer and
electronic mail.
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