LEARNING ACTIVITY SHEET RECRUITMENT – a set of activities designed to attract qualified
ABM 11 ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT (Q2-WK1-2)
STAFFING (Recruitment, Selection and Training and
Development)
DEFINITION AND NATURE OF STAFFING
According to Dyck and Neubert(2012), staffing is the
Human resources function of identifying, attracting, hiring, and
retaining people with the necessary qualifications to fill the
responsibilities of current and future jobs in the organization. The
number of managerial and non –managerial human resources
depends on the size and complexity of the operations plans for
branching out or increases in production, and turn-over rate of
human resources and others.
Management potential within an organization can be
accomplished with the use of inventory chart also known as
succession/replacement chart which is similar to an organizational
chart. This will help the management monitor the movement of
their man power and replaced as soon as possible vacancy of
position.
Staffing has two main components; selection and
recruitment. Staffing steps include; 1. The identifying of job
position vacancies, job requirements as well as work force
requirement. 2. Checking internal environment of the organization
for human resources. 3. External recruitment. 4. Selecting those
with essential qualification for the job opening. 5. Placing the
selected applicant. 6. Promoting. 7. Evaluating performance. 8.
Planning of employee’s career. 9. Training of human resources and
10. Compensating human resources.
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applicant for job position vacancies in an organization.
Internal Recruitment – refers to recruitment done within the
organization, it can be done through promotion and transfer of
employees.
External Recruitment – refers to recruitment from outside
resources.
Methods of External and Internal Recruitment
External recruitment methods include the following;
Advertisement – through website, newspaper, trade journals,
radio, television, billboard etc.
Unsolicited Application – received by employers from individual
who may or may not be qualified for the job opening.
Internet Recruitment - independent job boards on the web
commonly used by job seekers and recruiters to gather and
disseminate job opening information. E.g jobstreet, workabroad,
bestsjobs and indeed.
Employee Referrals – are recommendation of organizations’
current employees who usually refer friends or relative who they
think qualified for the job position.
Educational Institution – is a good source of young applicants or
new graduates who have formal training but with very little job
experience.
Professional Association – may offer placement services to their
members who seek employment.
Labor Unions – possible source of applicants from blue-collar and
professional job.
Public and Private Employment Agency – may also be a good
sourced of applicants for different job vacancies for they usually
offer free service while private may charge fee from both employers
and applicants.
As mentioned earlier, internal recruitment processes recruitment
through promotion and transfer of employee from one position to
another or from one department to other.
SELECTION – the process of choosing individuals who have the
required qualification to fill the present and future job openings.
Steps in Selection Process
1. Establishing the selection criteria
2. Requesting applicants to complete the application form
3. Screening by listing applicants who seem to meet the set
criteria
4. Screening interview to identify more promising applicants
5. Interview by the supervisor/manager or panel interviewers.
6. Verifying information provided by the applicant
7. Requesting the applicant to undergo psychological and
physical examination
8. Informing the applicant that he or she has been chosen for
the position applied for
Interview – the determinant of an applicant’s qualification in order
to measure his or her ability to do the job.
Types of Job Interview
Structured Interview – interviewer asks the applicant to answer a
set of prepared questions.
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Unstructured Interview – the interviewer has no interview guide
and may freely ask questions.
One-on-one Interview – one interviewer is assigned to interview
an assigned applicant.
Panel Interview – several interviewers or a panel interviewer may
conduct the interview of applicant.
Types of Employment Test
Intelligence Test – designed to measure applicant’s mental
capacity. Test his/her cognitive capacity, speed of thinking and
ability to see relationship in problematic situation.
Proficiency and Aptitude Test – test his or her present skills and
potential for learning other skills.
Personality Test - design to reveal the applicant’s personal
characteristics and ability to relate with other.
Vocational Test – test that shows the occupation best suited to an
applicant.
TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT
Training and development is important in every success of an
organization. It helps each employee to improve skills that will
eventually result to efficient and effective productions/services.
Training refers to learning given by organizations to its employees
that concentrates on a short-term job performance and acquisition
of job related skills. While development refers to learning given by
an organization to its employee that is geared towards the
individual’s acquisition and expansion of his/her skills in I. Activities
preparation for future job appointments and other responsibility.
Activity # 1: JUMBLED WORDS
Lesson principles are as follow;

Modelling – the use of personal behaviour to demonstrate the Write the correct spelling opposite the scrambled letters.
desired behaviour or method to be learned. Explain each using your own word. 1 pt. for the jumbled word and
2 pts for the explanation.
Feedback and Reinforcement – learning by getting comments
1. GMELODLNI - ___________________
or feedback from the trainees themselves, from trainers, or fellow
2. FSITAFGN - ___________________
trainees which can help the individual realized what they are doing
3. NIGIARTN - ___________________
wrong. Reinforcement is accomplished through verbal
4. MANTDSVREIE - ___________________
encouragement or by giving rewards such as prices, awards and
5. CRTRMTNEIUE - ___________________
others.
6. WINVETREI - ___________________
7. IONSLECTE - ___________________
Massed and Distributed Learning – learning by giving training
8. MDVEPENETOL - ___________________
through either few, long hours of training or series of short hours
9. BEEFDKAC - ___________________
of training.
10. RRREFLEA - ___________________
Individual Differences – training program that take into account and
VI. Assessment
accommodate the individual differences of the trainees in order to
facilitate each person’s style and rate of learning. Essay, five points each question, use separate sheet of paper.

Active Practice and Repetition – learning through giving of

1. Give 2 example of external technological change that affects
frequent opportunities to trainees to their tasks properly.
staffing. Explain how they affect staffing.
2. Differentiate internal from external recruitment, which
Take note that training and development is created through
among the two do you think is best for recruiting vacant
different needs of the organization in which will help employees to
supervisory position? Profound your answer.
their growth. Evaluating the training is essential in order to
3. In your own opinion, which is better method of job
preserved and check if its objective was met during the actual
interview, structured or unstructured? Explain your choice.
implementation.
4. Which should be analyzed first in training needs
assessment organization, the tasks, or the person? Explain
your choice.
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 5. Give the difference between training and development using
your own word.
Assessment rubrics

Complete knowledge of vocabulary. Excellent at

Five (5)
defining meaning with words. Give complete
points
examples. No problem with spelling.
Good vocabulary knowledge. Good at defining
Four (4)
meaning with words. Give complete examples. No
points
problem with spelling.
General vocabulary knowledge. Able to identify word
Three (3)
meaning. Incomplete examples. Some spelling
points
problems without interfering understanding.
Still acceptable vocabulary knowledge. Still able to
Two (2) define meaning with words. Incomplete examples.
points Some spelling problems without interfering
understanding.
One (1) Lack of vocabulary knowledge. No given examples.
point Misspelled words. Unable to identify word meaning.
Zero (0) No answer at all.
point

VII. Reflection

Read the two quotations below and make a reflection paper using a
minimum of 250 words.

“Nothing we do is more important than hiring and developing

people. At the end of the day, you bet on people, not on strategies.”
- Lawrence Bossidy, Former COO of General Electric

"The competition to hire the best will increase in the years ahead.
Companies that give extra flexibility to their employees will have
the edge in this area." - Bill Gates, Founder of Microsoft
Corporation
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