HRM200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Wrongful Dismissal, Linguistics

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Human Resources Management
• Course: HRM200
• Professor: Vince Di Ruzza

Document Summary

Strategic importance of employee selection: underperformance of employees, time and monetary costs, legal implications, human rights issues, negligent hiring, wrongful dismissal. Acquiring employees and the law: don"t ask questions that would violate human rights legislation, all selections criteria and strategies are based on job description and job specifications, obtain written authorization for references checking and check references carefully. Save all records and information obtained about the applicant during each stage of the selection process: reject applicants who make false statements on their application forms or resumes. Selection testing: reliable, stand the test of time, valid, tell us what we want to know. Interviewer objectives: assessing applicants" qualifications, observing relevant aspects of applicants" behaviour, verbal communication. Interpersonal skills: gathering information about applicants that helps to predict future performance, providing candidates with information about the job, promoting the organization and highlighting its attractiveness, determining how well the applicants would fit into the organization.