Essays on Hiring Process

Abstract

The paper begins with a detailed introduction of Hotel Beacon and Lotte New York Palace, highlighting the frame of reference, the grounds for comparison and the thesis statement. The analysis that follows assesses the person-organization fit, the person-job fit, and the steps of recruiting, the applied cut-off, evaluation of abilities and personalities and finally the competency models that the firms use in the hiring process.

Introduction

The analysis presents a famous Hotel in New York, Hotel Beacon, and a successful restaurant, International House of Pancakes in Glendale, California, United States. Comprehensive qualitative interviews on the issues of recruitment and staff ...

Human Resource (HR) recruiters have the ability to select applicants from a multitude of sources. The most common methods are advertisements, company job boards, online job boards, and social media sites. However, to be successful in recruiting the most qualified applicants, the HR recruiter needs to keep up with changing technology and trends. Two new technologies for recruitment are Candidate Relationship Management software and Virtual Interviews.

Candidate Relationship Management (CRM)

Desai (2015) states “70% of recruiting organizations report to currently utilizing some form of Applicant Tracking System (ATS)” but the data “in an ATS becomes outdated extremely quickly – and therefore, its future value ...

Background Information

For this assignment, the Case under review is a Sole Proprietorship Family Business Organization founded in 2001. The business is a large corporation operating in the Dry cleaning sector. The company has its decision makers as the owners and managers with an established Human Resource Department that is tasked with the responsibility of taking care of employees who are hired for pay depending on the amount of work they render to the company and according to the employment laws. The business organization is currently at the Maturity stage. The business is dedicated to thriving in its business environment by ...

Inclusiveness of employees in the workplace is an important component towards organizational success. Diversity management plays a key role in establishing more inclusive workplace. Greater diversity is created through deliberation of programs and policies. The policies and programs are streamlined towards creating an environment where individuals with diverse skills, perspectives, and backgrounds contribute towards organizational success. Some of the programs and policies that would lead to the greater inclusion of employees include diversity training, broader recruitment efforts, workplace culture, as well as management strategies. Broader recruitment efforts and hiring process are critical policies that enhance inclusiveness in the workplace. ...

People Management

Part A Graduates constitute a large pool of supply for employers in the market that has the ability of supporting business development and eventually prosperity considering that they pose as a source of highly qualified and expertise workforce for businesses to attain short-term and long-term needs. The process of attracting and employing graduates may be a daunting task in terms of its resource intensive nature; hence, businesses may need to employ a number of ways get to the graduates and secure them for the various job positions. Due to the high competition that exists between firms for the best ...

Introduction to James T. McCoy –Flight Line Manager at Peterson Air Force Base (PAF)

James T. McCoy works as a flight line manager at 41st AMU (Aircraft Maintenance Unit) of PAF (Peterson Air Force Base) in California. He is a USAF (United States Air Force) veteran, who has served for 27 years. After getting retired, he continued serving USAF for the last 10 years as a civil servant. James is responsible for keeping all his seven allocated aircraft ready to glide as per the schedule. He is deeply associated with the HR in order to ensure the successful hiring of sufficiently qualified personnel and also responsible for supervising the delivery of efficiently executable ...

1.1. Early on, Dr. Vasella was able to identify that the company’s turnover rate is more than acceptable. It was becoming a problem for them to make people stay. He noted that it is not enough for the company to pay good money to their employees. They also must be able to solicit their commitment and drive for excellence at the same time. 1.2. One of the factors affecting this high turnover rate was the inability of the company to recognize talent for promotions within. By the time they do so, these potential senior executives were already on ...

Providing Trained Behavioral Personnel

1.0 Executive Summary The success of an organization relies significantly on the type of human resources it utilizes. Talented human resources tend to improve the service delivery in health care organizations. Moreover, unlike other institutions, health care organizations require sensitive recruitments due to sensitive nature of their services (Rynes & Cable, 2003). However, staff recruitment is a challenging task, particularly when it comes to making decisions regarding the most suitable candidates. If the recruitment is poorly conducted, an organization may end up hiring wrong and unqualified personnel (Carlson et al., 2002). Turnover problem is another consequence of inappropriate hiring, which ...

Introduction

Employees are the most valuable asset for a company or business (Alfes et al., 2010). For a company to thrive and remain profitable, the employees must be good at their jobs. There are rapid changes that are commonly associated with working environments. The workers should be flexible and be able to adapt to the different changing circumstances and remain focused. Different companies have different strategies to promote the development of their employees. Most of the companies include training as part of their development practice to ensure that the employees remain competitive. In this paper, the employee development practices of ...

Preliminary parts of the Report

Gender Biases as Workplace Problem – Preliminary Parts of the Report Introduction The report is about the gender biases in different workplaces that is considered one of the significant problems in many organizations. The report will present essential information that will provide awareness when it comes to knowing how such problem affects both genders who are being victimized by unequal treatment in their workplaces. It was reported that every organization has employees who have different characteristics and behaviors. The workplace structure, which is composed of employers, employees, and the organization’s customers are contributing factors as to why gender inequality ...

The Impact of NCAA Academic Progress Rate on Women and Minority Coaches’ Hires at Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) of Men’s and Women’s Basketball The Impact of NCAA Academic Progress Rate on Women and Minority Coaches’ Hires at Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) of Men’s and Women’s Basketball

After every sports season, the firing and hiring of coaches is done by NCAA. The need to promote demographic fairness in this cycle is a significant concern in the United States. Some opportunities may not be availed to minority groups and women.

Purpose

Research questions How ...

Introduction

If a job is well-designed, it may foster employee well-being and engagement, and therefore contribute to work performance that leads to customer satisfaction (Bakker et al., 190). Job design provides a description of the way “jobs, tasks, and roles are structured, enacted, and modified and what the impact of these structures, enactments, modifications, are on the individual, group, and organizational outcomes” (Grant et al., 318). For a period spanning over half a century, job design theories have played a significant role in guiding scholars and practitioners to offer descriptions, explanations, and effect changes in the work experiences and behaviors ...

Gender Bias in Workplace – The Alternative Solutions

Gender bias in workplace is an indication that the culture within the organization needs to be changed and improved. The stated problem of gender bias in workplace is considered one of the common, yet alarming issues in any organizations. There organizational leaders must ensure that the balance treatment between male and female employees is always included in the company’s operational procedure. Otherwise, conflict between genders might arise and positive employee perspectives towards the management might turn into negative ones. Therefore, it is essential that finding alternative solutions for this organizational problem must be done. Any proposed alternatives must ...

Management

2016-04-30

Introduction

The current paper is devoted to the issue of the public personnel management, its main features and how it can be managed by the environmental agency of the state Michigan. This agency is called Department of Environmental Quality. Its activity is connected with the environment protection (including air, land and water resources), pollution prevention, supporting the sustainable environment and healthy communities in the state (Annual Report of the Agency, 2016). The structure of the agency includes nine divisions and offices. There is also special environmental assistance center on the agency’s structure that is in charge of the ...

Human Resource Management

2016-04-27 One of the most important aspect of each organization is its payment system. It includes a way to establish the relationship between the measure of labor and the measure of compensation for it. The payment system for any employer is established in accordance with the labor laws and other regulations. The compensation system of the organization can balance many forces, including equity issues, labor markets, the financial health and federal laws. The importance of compensation to strategic human resources management is described in the paper of scientist Pynes and other specialists. According to Pynes (2013), a compensation strategy ...

The name of the business will be “Mr. Sheeda.” It is a fictitious comic character that, and the name is of this character. This name has been used to form unique associations with the business name. The name has its origin from one of the workers working at a Desi Restaurant. Mr. Sheeda is a unique name and is not used by any other business corporation operating in New York State. It will be checked from the “Division of Corporations, State Records, and UCC.” This division is a subset of Department of States of the State New York. It ...

Business: Diversity in the Workplace

In today's workforce in the USA, 51.7% of all employees are women, and this number is predicted to decrease by the year 2022. (Department of Labor, 2014). Out of this percentage, only about 26% work in the computer and mathematical fields which is a fact that is quite alarming. (Department of Labor, 2014). An analysis of the companies in Silicon Valley revealed that about 47% of 150public companies had no female employees in their executive positions. (Warner, 2015). Women in the workforce earn about $719 to men's $817 median weekly earnings. 70% of all women in the workforce also ...

Increase the candidate pool of recruits – Improving the candidate pool of recruits will bring in a large variety of potential candidates who have the potential for the job. Increasing the pool include the use of university placement officers and recruiters after developing relations with them to provide the best candidates. Use of conferences and professional association with staff members may help meet employees that are good for the bank (Pankl, Theiss, & Bushing, 2010). Involve employees in the hiring process – Involving the current employees in the hiring process will improve in the quality of recruits since the current employees know ...

Business Plan

Executive Summary 3 1.0 Introduction 4 2.0 Operations plan 5 2.1 Location and facilities 5 2.2 Business processes 6 2.3 Distribution and outsourcing 9 3.0 Organizational plan 10 3.1 Management 11 3.2 Mission 12 3.3 Purpose 13 3.4 Vision 13 3.5 Legal structure 13 3.6 Organizational chart 14 4.0 Marketing plan 16 4.1 Price 16 4.2 Product 17 4.3 Place 19 4.4 Promotion 20 5.0 Financial plan 21 6.0 Growth plan 22 7.0 Contingency and harvest strategy 23 8.0 Timeline to launch the plan 25 9.0 References 28 10.0 Appendices 29

Executive summary

Don’t we all enjoy the experience of ...

The hiring process of giant IT companies such as Google, Microsoft has been moved to the online based requirement portals. The online portals are the reflection of future trends that the industry is facing at this moment. Companies have focused on building a base full of talent instead of just hiring employees based on so called interview system. The online recruitment system is an efficient platform for the recruiters to meet their requirements of hiring talent. Microsoft isn’t an exception. As a leader on the respective industry, it always focuses on hiring individuals with talents through its unique ...

Dear (Name of the contact person at LAPD),

I am writing to you in regards to my disqualification from the Polygraph examination in 2009, which has barred me from proceeding any further in the hiring process, despite passing the Personal Qualification Essay. The grounds on which I wish to appeal are that the circumstances that led to my disqualification are regretful. I have taken a bold approach in an attempt to redeem myself for the mistakes by joining the USA Army Reserves. Besides, ...

1.0 Introduction

This article is about discrimination and how it impacts organizations and society at large. The aim of the paper is to provide a broad perspective on discrimination and what organizations should do to avoid the negative impacts of discrimination at the work places. Discrimination is when individuals or an individual is treated unfairly than others because of their age, race, nationality, religion or belief, sexual orientation among other ground. The article therefore will focus on forms of discrimination, why discrimination is a problem in both organizations and society, impact of discrimination to organizations and society, role of organizations in avoiding discriminations ...

Ethics may infer different meanings to different people. It however generally narrows down to what is considered in a basic sense as right or wrong. The society has placed a wide range of measures to ensure that what is right receives maximum support, and the people uphold the principles. In relation to a business context, ethics will involve making decisions that either aligns to wrongs or right. A further consideration is made for the law that the organization subscribes to within that society. Value-based and morality dilemmas within the workplace are very difficult to solve and handle. The ethical issue that has ...

I. Introduction In the current academic environment, staffing is a crucial tactical process, for the qualification, efficiency, and sincerity of the staff members are some key factors influencing competitiveness of an academic institution. As a result, academic organizations invest heavily in their staffing activities believing that an efficient and productive workforce can outweigh those costs. Identifying the significance of efficient staffing, today organizations outsource their staffing activities to outside firms so as to enhance the competitiveness of the workforce. With the emergence of concepts such as web-based ads and SMS ads, it has become convenient and cost-effective for companies to ...

Abstract 3

Introduction 4 Recruitment Process in PepsiCo 4 Planning 4 The Process of Recruitment 5 Managing New Employees 6 Hiring Process (Applicant’s Actions) 7 Workplace Diversity in PepsiCo 7 Diverse Workforce Recruiting 8 Training of Applicants with Disabilities 8 Global Anti-Discrimination and Anti-Harassment Policy 9 Recommendations 9 Conclusions 10

References 11

Abstract PepsiCo, as many other international companies, has a complex procedure of recruitment process that includes several steps: planning, process of recruitment and managing new employees. Each step includes many procedures that ensure compliance with the company’s regulations, ...

Introduction

There are several aspects to keep in mind throughout the hiring process. An organization wants to make sure they are recruiting the right person who will make the best fit for the organization. A company also wants to make sure that person will stick around and not increase the organizations turnover rate. Recruiters want the best and most reliable people to job their team. There are several things that an organization can do in order to make sure they hire the best and most qualified workers for the job. They can hire externally, give excellent job descriptions, and use ...

Effective human resource management practice follow the protocols of hiring process including background checks. First and foremost, it is significant for the employers to thoroughly conduct the background check which includes receiving application of along with the release information statement. It allows the employers to verify all sorts of documentations that can give insights about the background of the employee. The second step of the investigation for background is to complete the documentation for verification process. It includes educational certificates, work experiences along with the reference that can ensure that the employee had been showing effective performance and ...

Job Analysis Report

- Job Description:

The job under consideration in this report is Customer Services Representative (CSR).

The job description of Customer Services Representative, as taken from O*Net is as follows: - The basic task for a customer service representative is to reply the calls of the customer to provide the information about the product and services. The CSR should also be capable of obtaining details of any complaints. - Take or enter the orders from the customers - Keep the records of customers’ transactions - Resolving the customer’s problems related to billing, monetary refunds and bill adjustment - Ask for the sales of any new product ...

In response to Kristian’s answer, companies have different hiring process. The hiring process really depends on the policies that are implemented; the size of the company, the offered or needed job position, and the type of industry a company operates. Any companies are hiring top candidates with the best characteristics who seek in career opportunities. A significant company decision for any organization is how to choose an employee that qualifies to the position as required. The best candidate or applicant that fits in the business culture is one that is productive at the workplace. The success of the company ...

For over three decades, the U.S labor market has attracted criticism from the minority groups mostly the blacks. Before the industrial revolution occurred, majority of the blacks provided cheap labor to the white’s farms. The form of employment during that time was informal as knowledge requirements were never a necessity. After the industrial revolution, focus shifted to individuals both black and whites sought for jobs within the established industries (Royster 123). The introduction of industries necessitated knowledge acquisition as roles became different from the initial forms. The blacks found for knowledge like their white counterparts so as to gain ...

Introduction

Articles, research reports and blogs have been written on the basis of analyzing the things in an effective manner, and they will used to furnish the things in front of the people particularly. Articles and research reports usually have certain aspects that are essential to give the education to the readers in a perfect and organized manner. The level of biasness has been increasing in different fields, and it is very much in the Human Resources Management (HRM) as well. Apart from the hiring and firing, some of the major works associated with the Human Resources Department is to manage ...

Tim Hortons is a company that was named after and owned originally by a professional hockey player. Over the years, and to date, Tim Hortons has remained to be a leader in the coffee shop and donut industry in North America. The company was founded in 1964 and is continually growing and expanding, which means that new staff should be recruited to join the over 100, 000 employees currently employed (Tim Hortons, 2014). The company has elaborate recruitment policies that guide the process of hiring new staff. The company is committed to a fair and accessible equal employment practices (Rose, 2014). The company ...

Chapter V

Introduction Guidelines and funding for equal employment were presented in 1961 in an Executive Order signed by Democratic President J. F. Kennedy (Stewart, 2012). And then, the Supreme Court was the center of forming the foundational legal concepts of affirmative action (FAQ, 2003). And later, Republican President Richard M. Nixon supported employment equity by establishing federal contractors to meet affirmative action standards. Three decades later, 32 years after the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the California legislature passed a ban on affirmative action. The law had been initiated by California Proposition 209 which had been accepted in a popular vote. The ...

The fact that Kellogg as a company endeavored to acquire the asset base of Diamond Foods Inc. was based on the performance history of Diamond Foods in its recent past. Thus, Kellogg has the chance and prospect of growing its asset share and base, due to the postulation and estimate growth rate that analysts have postulated. From the face value, Diamond Food Inc. has a strong customer base and a loyal brand that is good for any business mergers or subsequent acquisitions. On the other hand, this could be an attempt by the big companies to obtain a near monopoly status, by acquiring the ...

- Where did you find the research article? Did experts in the field review it before it was published? The research article was published in the Journal of Education for Business in 2011 . The paper was classified as peer-reviewed, therefore, validating that it was reviewed by experts in the filed before it was published. - Does the article have a stated research question or problem? That is, can you determine the focus of this author’s work? If so, what is the stated research question or problem?

Research Question 2: What values do students place on interview traits? ...

Following HRM practices contributed to its business performance:

EXTRA-ORDINARY TALENT The success of Microsoft could be attributed to its ability to recruit, motivate and retain extra-ordinary talent. Microsoft has always hired the brightest and best candidates for recruiting for various positions. Bill Gates believed that the acquired knowledge was less important than the smart ideas available with talented and ambitious people. Microsoft always believed in hiring people who were smart, hardworking and knew how to get things done.

RIGOROUS HIRING PROCESS TO HIRE ONLY THE BEST

The hiring process for the developers was quite rigorous with a detailed interview and a technical interview in which the prospective candidates had to write code for Microsoft products and ...

Introduction

Several organizations have at one time or another realized a high number of employee turnover. This puts an organization at a disadvantage especially because of the negative publicity it renders to the organization. Many scholars have done research using guidelines like ways to enhance employee attraction and retention, types of motivation that will lead to employee retention and even how to transform retention theories into practice. The problem under investigation relates to the reasons why it is difficult for organizations to attract and retain their workers. There is need for further research seeing that the problem of worker attraction and most ...

Introduction

The selection process is a critical stage in the hiring process. It is critical because getting the candidate with the right skills is crucial for any company. It is hard to identify the candidate with the company fit that will be suitable to work for the company. This is hard to achieve because of the effort that many candidates will show in order to be considered as fit candidates for the positions which are advertised. This paper will focus on the selection strategy that Zappos use in order to get the right candidates to fill the positions that have been ...

The National security agency as a producer of intelligence signals across the United States ought to have a strong sense of confidence and formality in its hiring process. In the US, the agency operates under the department of defense and reports to the national intelligence. The task and roles of NSA dwells upon areas such as global monitoring, data collection, decoding nuances, various translations, and information analysis criterion in terms with the counter intelligence forces. Such activities require staff that are diligent, and gave a strong commitment to safeguarding the activities of the agency. In the case of NSA, controversies have often emerged concerning ...

Introduction

Employee disengagement is an inevitable process in some organizations; from the moment one joins the organization he/she may stay for weeks, months, years or decide to leave (Branham, 2). Many organizations struggle to provide valuable employees with benefits and good salaries; this occurs in a bid to retain them and prevent them from exploring other job opportunities. Lowe’s is no exception; with several retail stores across USA, Lowe’s values the role of its employees in ensuring profits and customer satisfaction. It provides favorable work conditions to its employees; this encourages excellence in their work. It is this factor ...

United States legal system provides a variety of legal obligations that are impacted when doing business. They entail the employment laws that are very essential as they are likely to be encountered by a company immediately upon commencing business and also provide compliance that is heavily regulated. The labor and employment laws in the United States are derived from a variety of legal sources that include: constitutional law, statutory law, administrative regulations and common law that entail unwritten customs, principles as well as rules and case laws (Cihon & Castagnera, 2011). The focus of the paper is identifying major employment-related laws and regulations, ...

Introduction

The process of hiring and retaining law enforcement officers is an important one because of the service that the officers will give to the community. They are required to enforce the law and eradicate crime. It is important to have officers who are ready to undertake the service with dedication. This will be achieved through having the right people. The hiring process should focus on getting officers who are service-oriented and not adventure oriented. This paper will focus on the process that has been used to hire officers and suggest new measures that can be integrated to improve the ...

Respected Board of Directors,

I wanted to take this opportunity to thank you for your confidence in me all those years I have been employed by you. After serious consideration and multiple years of hard work in this organization, I would like to request for a raise. Since the company’s grading policy allows raises only to employees that move up the ranks, I, therefore, request for an advancement. I know that you feel opposed to my getting an advancement, but I intend to fully back up my claim, as I am confident that my skills and qualifications are more than sufficient for ...

Re: Use Internet in the Hiring Process

I am writing this memo in response to your request for my opinion regarding the above matter. Actually, the society has become so technological to the extent that it is necessary for all companies to go digital. The embracement of modern technologies can be instrumental in spearheading the organizations recruitment, communication and development activities. In this regard, I would like to recommend that the company should incorporate the use of internet when carrying out recruitments. This is the best way through which it can appeal to the potential applicants. Besides, it can be instrumental in promoting networking so ...

Introduction

The Administration For Children And Families (AFC) endeavors to deliver quality services to the targeted youths, children and families. These services range from Child support, welfare, foster care, adoption assistance to overall child care programs. In order to achieve this crucial objective, the AFC is composed of an organized human resource management structure which makes it possible for this organization to deliver their services to the concerned parties. In this section of my assignment, I will major my focus on the organization design of AFC in regard to its human resource.

Organizational Design

The Administration For Children And Families was founded ...

Diversity in the business context has a wide variety of meanings depending on the intensions of the person defining it. The term could be used in the contexts of business portfolios in defining the portfolio diversity score and collateralized debt obligation, market diversification growth strategy, workforce diversity and equality among many others things. In general, diversity is any dimension that helps differentiate things or people in the business world. In this essay, the dimension of workforce diversity is examined. Workplace diversity encompasses age, sexual orientation, gender, ethnicity, language culture, religion, family responsibilities etc. (HATCH, 2008). Diversity is taken to ...

Introduction

TerraCog is an extremely successful high-tech firm. It is a private firm that develops Global Positioning System (GPS) and similar goods for consumer markets. Recently, the company has been caught unprepared by a competitor who has developed a product that employs novel use of satellite imagery. When the company thoughts of developing a competing product, named Aerial, the costs involved for the project threaten the fall of the project. None of the main managers is equally prepared to take the blame, anger, and bewilderment for the failure. After consistent disagreements between the leaders of the firm, the blames follows Emma Richardson, who was ...

According to Anderson and Media (2013), there are various advantages and disadvantages of observing diversity in an organization. As such, there is the need to make sure that there is proper management of the diverse workforce so as to make sure there is consistency and smoothness in the running of the organization. There are some measures which should be put in place so as to make sure that the managers do not resort to individual attacks and ostracism in the workplace. Some of these are as discussed below. First of all, the organizations need to make sure that ...

Citation

The article to be reviewed in this paper is known as “Recruitment and Selection: Best practices methods “by Victor M. Catano expounding on various processes incorporated in the personnel recruitment process. The Human Resources recruitment process is analyzed in detail defining job analysis, recruitment, and selection of employees as a practice in many efficient firms. The hiring process to be complete must have measures policies, practices, and procedures that are essential in arriving at a recruiting or promotional decision. This will translate to an organization having an efficient work force that will steer the day-to-day operations of the organization. The article ...

The situation at Zyedego illustrates how difficult ethical leadership and decision making can be for many HR managers. The situation also symbolizes the increased importance for addressing matters that touch on ethical and legal considerations for many an organization (Linda, Ferell, and Fraedrich, 147). Many managers often encounter situations where determining what is right or wrong is a challenge. For this reason, ethics always becomes an issue of concern for many managers. Despite the importance of ethics in decision making, widespread moral lapses in the corporate world has contributed to the collapse of respected organizations. Adopting appropriate code of ethics ...

NanoGene Technologies, Inc. is a young start-up company established to specialize in the manufacture of nanotech solutions for medical purposes. The company is currently composed of five founders and top-notch scientists from Eastern Institute of Technology’s (EIT) Advanced Materials Sciences Lab (AMSL), namely Will Tompkins (currently serving as CEO), Don Rupert, Mark Masterson, Ravi Rhoota and Gary Garfield. The company is currently in the process of raising US$10 million in equity through Venture Capital (VC) funding. The company is also in discussions with Paige Miller, a business consultant with considerable experience in biotechnology operations and management. As it is ...

The hiring processes in many organizations are aimed at making sure that the best hands for the task at hand are hired. This is done in a bid to improve the efficiency of the labor force. There are different hiring processes in different organizations; some complex, others basic. The bottom line is that the process must deliver the best candidate for the job. Below is a discussion on how Google goes about the process.

Google’s Hiring Process

The hiring process is aimed at making sure that the best hands are gathered to handle a particular task in an organization. As such, the position must be ...

The human resource department in any organization is a very important department. This is mainly because it provides the organization with the manpower needed to carry out various duties. In order to hire the right people for the right job, it is necessary for the HR to have a clear job description. Only then can it pick an individual with the necessary skills. The essay below lays an extra emphasis on job description and its benefits.

Human Resource Management

According to Management Study Guide (2012a), job analysis is a tool used by the HR to gather, synthesize and implement information regarding the workforce. The main ...

As a newly-promoted captain in the Greenfield Police Department, I have been asked to study and review the existing officer hiring procedures, and to suggest how they can be updated to reflect the department’s current emphasis on community policing. My initial studies have revealed that the department has not changed its hiring process for many years. Because community policing is an important objective for police forces nationwide, it is clear that we must be part of that and should make changes in our local procedures, including recruitment, in part to reflect that requirement. In the following paragraphs I ...

Abstract

In an effort to find better ways to hire appropriate employees, many businesses today are using personality tests as part of the pre-employment screening process. However, there are many problems involved with using personality tests as part of hiring. Personality tests are risky for both employers and employees and should not be used in the hiring process.

Personality Testing in Employment Pre-Screening:

Employers have long attempted to devise ways to ensure that the most qualified candidates for the job positions they offer are the ones who they hire for those positions. This includes appropriate things such as reviewing resumes, personal interviews, or basic tests ...

Abstract

Gender Difference in Negotiating

It is widely believed and expected that women tend to be more reserved than men when it comes to express their interests at the workplace. They tend to shy away from being vocal about their rights or their dues. In other words, it is almost certain that women don’t ask for much. Whatever they fear for may not be definite or defined, but they definitely have a problem when it comes to negotiating their compensation rates as compared to their male counterparts (Booth, 2009).

In exploring this aspect, Babcock and Laschever (2003) conducted a study about ...