HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT

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Case study 1

Recruitment Strategy at ValuOutlets (pdf.)

Part I – Planning process

Would you use an external agency – discuss pros and cons?

What information is needed in order to have a detailed overview of the positons required and the type of flexibility in worker categories they need?

Part II – Job description for ‘store manager’

Prepare a job analysis – considering job and person specifications.

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Job description: Use guideline (handout)

Writing Job Descriptions and Person Specifications for Recruitment

Writing job descriptions

Writing person specifications

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Employer’s labour-market power

Status quo

Muddling through

Innovative/

autonomous

Flexible

Management creativity and proactivity

Windolf’s typology of recruitment strategies

high

low

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Source: Windolf, P. (1986) Recruitment, Selection, and Internal Labour Markets in Britain and Germany , Organization Studies, 7(3): 235-54.

or in Textbook: Boxall Purcell and Wright (eds.) Oxford Handbook of HRM, 2007, p. 283.