Week 1 - Assignment: Assess Personnel Management Approaches in Public Administration and Week 2 - Assignment: Generate Best Practices for Recruitment and Selection

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Week 2

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Recruitment and Selection

Congratulations on your new position as Director of Personnel Administration for Public

Organization X – and welcome to training! Your first week of training will address two

important pieces of the human resource management process: recruitment and selection.

One might say an organization is nothing without the people who keep it running. As

such, it is very important to select the best candidate for the job. This candidate is the

individual who will most likely meet the strategic goals and objectives established by the

legislation guiding the organization.

As you will see in this week’s readings, recruitment and selection can be very complex

tasks within the public sector. Particularly, there are general policies and court decisions

that must be considered when selecting and hiring employees. For example,

discrimination is an illegal activity under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Another

piece surrounds the need for creativity in recruitment. For example, in the past, there has

been a central office or individual responsible for hiring and managing the human capital

in an organization. More recently, recruitment efforts have expanded not only to the

street level but also to more non-traditional recruitment techniques like e-recruitment.

For example, many organizations have now turned to social recruiting, using internet

platforms like Twitter and LinkedIn to reach a more diverse population of talented

applicants. Another trend, blind hiring, is also a way to hire new employees using

technology. As organizations are increasingly interested in diversity and inclusion in the

workforce, using technology to remove unconscious bias in the hiring process is on the

rise.

As you sit through this week’s training, soak in the old and be prepared to use creative

thinking to help Organization X usher in the new. You must understand where an

organization has been and where they are now to best plan for the future.

Be sure to review this week's resources carefully. You are expected to apply the

information from these resources when you prepare your assignments.

80 % 4 of 5 topics complete

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Books and Resources for this Week

Battaglio, R. (2015). Public human

resource management: Strategies and

practices in the 21st century. London:

SAGE Publications, Ltd. Link

Cohen, S., Eimicke, W. B., & Heikkila, T.

(2013). The effective public manager:

Achieving success in government

organizations. San Francisco, CA... Link

Leisink, P., & Steijn, B. (2008).

Recruitment, attraction, and selection.

In J. L. Perry & A. Hondeghem (Eds.),

Motivation in public management... Link

Partnership for Public Service. (2018,

October). Tech to hire: Transforming

federal HR beginning with recruiting

and hiring. Partnership for Public... Link

Week 2 - Assignment: Generate Best Practices for

Recruitment and Selection Assignment

Due February 13 at 11:59 PM

Using this week’s readings as a starting point, consider the challenges in recruiting and

selecting the best candidates for Public Organization X. Then, choose an organization to

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examine and apply this week’s concepts. Since you are still in training, you may pick any

public organization of your choice for this assignment, but choose wisely and make sure

the information you are seeking is readily available.

Give a brief background on your selected organization and its employees, and then

produce an in-depth guideline on recruitment and selection best practices for yourself to

use when you take over as Director of Personnel Administration of Organization X at the

end of your training. You may assume the organization you choose to examine is in the

same field as Organization X. This is a great practice, especially since sometimes you get

the best ideas from outside research! Just remember, your document should contain best

practices specifically related to recruiting and candidate selection.

Tip: It is recommended that you prepare this information in the form of a chart for quick

reference rather than in typical essay form.

Be sure to include how different departments or positions may need different strategies

for recruitment (e.g., pre-employment screenings) and selection (e.g., complying with the

Civil Rights Act). You may present the best practices themselves in the form of an outline

or list within the chart.

Length: 4-5 pages, not including title and reference pages

References: Include a minimum of 5 scholarly resources.

Your assignment should demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the ideas and concepts

presented in the course by providing new thoughts and insights relating directly to this

topic. Your response should reflect scholarly writing and current APA standards where

appropriate. Be sure to adhere to Northcentral University's Academic Integrity Policy.

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