Modern Management: concepts and skills, 14/e

Selection

The second major step involved in providing human resources for the organization is selection—choosing an individual to hire from all those who have been recruited. Selection, obviously, is dependent on the first step, recruitment.

Selection is represented as a series of stages through which job applicants must pass to be hired.²⁰ Each stage reduces the total group of prospective employees until, finally, one individual is hired. Figure 10.6 lists the specific stages of the selection process, indicates reasons for eliminating applicants at each stage, and illustrates how the group of potential employees is narrowed to the individual who ultimately is hired. Two tools often used in the selection process are testing and assessment centers. ...