ADM 3333 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-4: Canadian Human Rights Act, Job Performance, Observational Error

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Administration
• Course: ADM 3333
• Professor: Dennis Sakalauskas

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Chapter 1 an introduction to recruitment and selection. Figure 1. 1 example of a human resources system. Best practices in recruitment and selection: reduce employee turnover and increase productivity. Improve the k(cid:374)o(cid:449)ledge, skills, a(cid:374)d a(cid:271)ilities of a(cid:374) o(cid:396)ga(cid:374)izatio(cid:374)"s (cid:272)u(cid:396)(cid:396)e(cid:374)t a(cid:374)d futu(cid:396)e e(cid:373)plo(cid:455)ees, i(cid:374)(cid:272)(cid:396)ease thei(cid:396) motivation, and help to retain high quality employees while encouraging poor performers to leave. Global competition: foreign trade is vital to the canadian economy. Rapid advances in technology and the internet: technology is affecting every aspect of our lives. Employers are expecting to hire employees who are computer literate: companies are increasingly exclusively recruiting online, allowing access to bigger candidate pools, lower recruiting costs, lower printing costs, and immediate tracking results. The economic context: the state of the economy has a profound effect on staffing. Economic booms bring with them skilled labour shortages, so recruitment and retention take on strategic importance and are given high priority: slowdowns lead to lay offs, pay cuts, and hiring freezes.