MGT 461 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Organizational Culture, W. M. Keck Observatory, Job Performance
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Recruitment is a distinctive process that is separate from, but parallel to, the selection process. More successful the recruiting process, the more the firm benefits from rigorous selection. Recruitment critical to the organization because success of a company closely related to the quality of its workforce. Recruitment process proceeds through a few well-defined sequential stages: Attracting and capturing the interest of potential applicants. Organizations decision to extend a job offer and post-offer closure. Model recognizes the shifting contextual factors and applicant perceptions of organizational activities across these stages. Recruitment objectives > recruitment strategy > recruitment activities > results of recruitment activities. Applicant population > applicant pool > job candidates > hires. Stage 1 involves a number of key organizational decisions: Number of acceptable applicants, meeting the organization"s legal and social obligations, increasing the success rate of the process. Type of applicants to pursue, target applicants broadly or focus on person-to-person methods, message orientation.
