Recruiting for Effective Management

RECRUITING FOR EFFECTIVE MANAGEMENT

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Organizations today face many challenges. This statement has become a common catchphrase used to describe the profound changes being experienced in contemporary organizations. One of the most notable changes that has significantly impacted organizations over the last decade has been the growing acknowledgement that people are an organization’s primary asset. Managing people as an organization’s primary asset has meant that the human resource (HR) function has become creative and effective in developing strategies to attract, retain and leverage talent to successfully execute organizational strategy in order to gain competitive advantage. Whereas the HR function was once mainly utilized as an administrative tool, today the HR team is actively involved in problem-solving and identifying new trends with other management functions. It can be considered that over the past three decades, the HR function, the HR discipline, and its processes, has undergone significant radical change in order to demonstrate to organizations and consumers the significance of embracing a culture of change and development. The new generation HR field is emerging as one that draws on traditional HR and new strategic HR. The process of staff recruitment and selection is becoming increasingly complex and its integration into organizational and HR strategies means that the successful outcome of these processes is vital for job performance and organizational success.

The complexity of matching the right applicant to the right job is a perpetual activity for HR management considering the organization's economic, social and political contexts. Organizations are increasingly becoming focused on being competitive on a national and global level. The importance of the recruitment and selection process is vital for organizational competitiveness and a failure to approach this function effectively will have consequences for future job performance. Numerous authors have emphasized the importance of integrating the recruitment and selection processes into organizational strategies and HR systems