5. Planning for, Recruiting, and Selecting Employees

Human resource planning

process to ensure that an organization has people available (employed) who have the right competencies, and that these people are being utilized in the right capacities in order for the company to achieved desired objectives

Trend analysis

Using past numerical data to look for patterns in order to predict future demand for employees

Management forecasts

asking managers for their predictions regarding the future demand for employees

Staffing table

graphs displaying the jobs in an organization and showing the number of people currently in these jobs. Anticipated demand for the number of people to fill each job may be shown as well

Markov analysis

Descriptions of how employees typically move into, within, and out of an organization

Skills inventory

Information about the education, experiences, skills, etc. of employees

Oversupply of labour

occurs when an organizations demand for employees is less than the number of employees currently employed

Shortage of labour

Occurs when an organizations demand for employees is greater than the number of employees

Recruitment

The process of locating people and encouraging them to apply for jobs

Employment branding

An organizations reputation as an employer

Labour market

Area from which applicants are recruited

Selection

The process of choosing from the pool of applicants and hiring individuals who are best able to fulfill the requirements of the job

Reliability

The degree to which selection procedures provide consistent outcomes over time

Validity

How well a selection procedure measures what it is intended to measure

Panel interview

An interview in which a board of interviewers question and observe a single candiate

Behavioural description interview (BDI) question

Question about what a person actually did in a given situation

Situational question

question in which an applicant is given a hypothetical incident and asked how they would respond to it

Aptitude tests

Measures of a person’s capacity to learn or acquire skills

Achievement tests

Measures of what a person knows or can do right now