5.2 Selection and the HR Process

Question 1

What does effective selection do?

Answer 1

Contributes to the organization’s bottom-line goals

Ensures that an organization’s financial investment in employees pays off

Help fulfill hiring goals specified in affirmative action programs

Minimizes litigation with people who claim to have been rejected on discriminatory bases

Helps hire and place job applicants in the best interests of the organization and the individual

Question 2

Selection and placement decisions should be made that benefit who?

Answer 2

The individual and the organization.

Question 3

Selection and placement decisions should be made that benefit who?

Answer 3

The indivudual and the organization

Question 4

True or False: Selection procedures affect the very essence of the organization.

Answer 4

True

Selection procedures influence the very essence of the organization, because the selection process determines who will, and who will not, receive employment with the firm.

Question 5

How does a job analysis affect the selection process?

By helping to create a list of job related qualities desired for an open job
By recruiting the appropriate pool of potentially qualified applicants
By projecting when and how many selection decisions must be made
To serving as a source of feedback

Answer 5

By helping to create a list of job related qualities desired for an open job

Question 6

What is not needed to begin the selection process?

An analysis of the qualifications needed for the job

A specific person in mind for the job
A pool of job applicants
A description of the organizational context

Answer 6

A specific person in mind for the job

Question 7

True or False: An organization must hire a qualified person for the selection process to be successful.

Answer 7

False

If recruiting does not provide an appropriate pool of qualified candidates, the organization may hire under-qualified job applicants with potential, and then train them. The trade-off between selecting the “right” individual vs. training individuals to “perform right” centers around cost and time. Some organizations intentionally hire under-qualified individuals so they can send them through a lengthy training process.

Question 8

How does HR planning help the organization’s selection decisions?

By providing an appropriate pool of potentially qualified job applicants
By developing criteria for evaluation
By developing the list of qualities needed for the job
By projecting when and how many selection decisions will need to be made

Answer 8

By projecting when and how many selection decisions will need to be made

Question 9

If recruiting does not provide an appropriate pool of qualified candidates

Answer 9

The organization can hire under-qualified job applicants and then train them.

Question 10

What is the purpose of HR Planning in the recruitment process?

Answer 10

To facilitate the organization’s selection decisions by projecting when and how many such decisions will need to be made.