Assignment:
Seminar in Public Human Resources Administration:
Questions & Key Terms [Day Three]
CRITICAL THINKING QUESTIONS
1. How does one's value perspective influence the objectives of the recruitment and selection process?What does it mean to say that fairness is a social judgment rather than a scientific calculation?
2. What is meant by contextual factors that influence how well a person performs as an organizational member? How easy do you think it is to recruit and select for these factors? Does an emphasis on contextual factors conflict with an emphasis on recruiting for diversity?
3. Identify eleven steps in the recruitment and selection process. In an organization you are familiar with, which steps are the most difficult to perform? Why?
4. Compare and contrast centralized, decentralized, and web-based recruitment techniques.
5. Describe the concept of the psychological contract and identify a situation you are familiar with where it might be employed to help clarify and resolve differences.
6. Describe the basic components of equity and expectancy theory. How do they help to explain employee performance? Identify an example from your own life where equity theory or expectancy theory helps you understand why you did what you did.
7. Describe four approaches to productivity: total quality management, job enrichment, work/life balance, and teamwork. Select an organization you are familiar with. If you were responsible for charting a strategy for productivity improvement, which would you focus on and why?
Key Terms: Please define and give one example
1. acquisition function
2. centralized recruitment and selection
3. construct validation vs content validation vs criterion validation
4. test validation
5. true and false positives and negatives
6. administrative logic
7. development function
8. employee commitment vs psychological contract
9. extrinsic motivation vs intrinsic motivation
10. job enrichment vs job sharing
Attachment:- Recruitment-Selection and Promotion.rar