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Unit 10: Staffing and Coordination

2. Recruitment is a mere vacancy-filling function. Notes
3. Employment exchanges are important sources of clerical and managerial personnel.
4. If a job opening to be filled is very attractive, most prospective candidates may turn
indifferent and do not even apply.
5. In practice, selection process differ according to job level and skill.
6. The basic purpose of selection is to develop a group of potentially qualified people.
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7. Where activities are well-coordinated, each department works in .................. .
8. People join an organisation to fulfil their .................. needs.
9. Coordination can be achieved by .................. contact among the responsible people
concerned.
10. .................. contact is generally considered to be the most effective means of communication
for achieving coordination.

11. .................. must be delegated in a clear way.
12. Coordination should start from the very .................. of planning process.

10.14 Review Questions

1. Predict workplace changes that you believe might take place within the next 10 years.
What challenges will these changes present to organisations?
2. Assuming that the trend toward robotics and artificial intelligence continues into the next
century, how might managers and HR departments be affected?

3. "The government should not be so concerned with the personnel affairs of business. They
should reduce some of their laws and let business police itself". Do you agree or disagree?
Discuss.
4. If you were responsible for hiring someone for your job, which recruitment sources
would you use? Why? Which recruitment sources would you avoid? Why?
5. To facilitate a near accurate prediction of an applicant's success on the job, the selection
methods should meet several generic standards. What according to you, should these
standards be?
6. As an HR manager, how do see the difference between the recruitment and selection
process.

7. Will you prefer the scheme of employee referrals in your organisation? If yes, in which
situations, if no, why not?
8. "Management involves coordination and integration of all resources, to accomplish specific
results". Explain.
9. "Coordination is the very essence of management". Do you agree? Give reasons.
10. "Coordination is the outcome of information and cooperation". Discuss.

11. Describe your experience with facilities and space planning or coordination.
12. Illustrate the concept of self coordination by the help of an example.

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