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Unit 3: HR Planning, Recruitment, Selection, Placement and Induction

Self Assessment Notes

Multiple choice questions:
1. …………………… human resource planning may be defined “as the process of assessing
the organization’s human resources needs in the light of organizational goals and
making plans to ensure that a competent, stable work force is employed.”
(a) Ivancevich and Glucck (b) Byars and Rue say
(c) Dale Yoder (d) Wendell French

2. ………… is a method for tracking the pattern of employee movements through various
jobs.
(a) Job analysis (b) Marko analysis

(c) Job specification (d) Flippo
3. ………………….. is the process of identifying, developing, and tracking key individuals
for executive positions.

(a) Succession planning (b) HR planning
(c) Employee assistance (d) Organization
4. The ............................... is forecasting the number and type of people needed to meet the
organizational objectives.
(a) HRP (b) HRM
(c) E-HRM (d) None of these.

3.3 Recruitment

If the HR department fails to identify the quality and the number of persons to be recruited
and also fails to procure the services of persons with required qualifications, skill and calibre
continuously, a time may come when all the qualified persons would have retired and no
qualified person would remain in the organization. Therefore, the importance of recruitment
and selection of the right type of persons at the right time is indispensable to the organization.
According to Flippo, recruitment “is a process of searching for prospective employees and
stimulating and encouraging them to apply for jobs in an organization”.
In the words of Mamoria, “recruiting is the discovering of potential applicants for actual or
anticipated organizational vacancies”.
3.3.1 Sources of Recruitment

Basically, the sources of recruitment are of two types:
(a) Internal; and
(b) External.

Internal Sources
Internal sources include personnel already on the pay roll of an organization. Filling a
vacancy from internal sources by promoting people has the advantages of increasing the
general level of morale of existing employees and of providing to the company more
reliable information about the candidate. Among the internal sources, may be included
promotions, transfers, and response of employees to notified vacancy.

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