Lecture 5

Selecting Employees to Fit the

Job and The Organization

PREPARED BY:
MS.KOMLAVATHI
SCHOOL OF BUSINESS MARKETING
L E C T U R E 5 : Selecting Employees to Fit the Job and The Organization

How do know if you fit?

The strategic importance of selection
• process of obtaining and using information about job application to
determine who should be hired (short/long term)
• if done well; employees will be
 highly productive
 motivated to stay and work
 making end-users happy
 capable of implementing strategy in company

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L E C T U R E 5 : Selecting Employees to Fit the Job and The Organization

How to know if you fit?

Consequences of correct vs. incorrect selection:
• if accepted correctly: good performance, no complaint
• if rejected correctly: company continue to look for suitable
employee

However,
• if accepted incorrectly:
poor performance in company, negative peer
evaluation
• if rejected incorrectly:
company may face lawsuit for discrimination

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L E C T U R E 5 : Selecting Employees to Fit the Job and The Organization

Design the selection process

Design involves:
• criteria of interest
guided by job/organizational analysis

• what predictors and assessment techniques

type of work, work setting

• how to measure predictors

content validation
criterion-related validation
validity generalization

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Design the selection process

• how to collect the information
 multiple hurdles: must exceed certain minimum requirements
 compensatory: used only when there is not one absolute
criteria that determines all
 combined: multiple and compensatory

How to assess job applicants

• personal history assessments:
 application blank, biodata test
• background verification, reference checks
• written tests:
 ability, knowledge, personality, integrity test

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L E C T U R E 5 : Selecting Employees to Fit the Job and The Organization

Design the selection process

• work simulations
• assessment centres
• interviews: structure, focus on behaviour, systematic scoring,
multiple interviewers, trained interviews
• medical tests: general health, genetic testing, drug and alcohol
testing

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L E C T U R E 5 : Selecting Employees to Fit the Job and The Organization

Train, develop: competitive workforce

Stressing the importance:
• improve recruitment and retention
• improve competitiveness
• implement new technology
• improve customer service
• enhance ethics training

(more to come next lecture)

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