Chapter 5: Recruiting, Selecting, and Socializing Employees

Chapter 5: Recruiting, Selecting, and Socializing Employees


After reading this chapter, you should be able to deal more effectively with the following challenges:

1. Understand the human resource planning process.
2. Weigh the advantages and disadvantages of internal and external recruiting.
3. Distinguish among the major methods of selection.
4. Make staffing decisions that minimize the hiring and promotion of the wrong people.
5. Provide reasonable job expectations to new recruits.