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UNIT NO 2 HRM -
TALENT ACQUISITION
2.4 Selection

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Selection
• Selection is the process by which organization chooses from a list of
applicants the person or persons who best meet the selection criteria
for the position available, considering current environmental
conditions
• All selection programs attempt to identify the applicants who have the
highest chance of meeting or exceeding the organization’s standard
of performance
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Selection criteria
• The goal of any selection system is to accurately determine
which applicants possess the knowledge, skills, ability and
other characteristics (KSAOs)

Categories

1. Formal education

2. Experience and past performance

3. Physical characteristics

4. Personal characteristics and personality type

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Selection process
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Selection process

• Step1 : Preliminary screening

Application blanks

Biographical information

blank (BIB) Weighted application

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Step 2: Employment interview

• Structured Vs unstructured interviews

• Situational interview (SI)

• Behavioral description interview

• Training for interviewing

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Step 3 : Employment Tests
• A technique that some organizations use to aid their selection decisions is
the employment test.

1. Job sample performance test

2. Cognitive ability tests

• Wechsler Adult intelligence scale

• Wonderlic personnel test

• California Test of mental maturity (adult level)

• Other cognitive tests (MPFB – Minnesota Paper form Board test) and
Minnesota clerical test)
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3. Psychomotor ability simulations
• O'Connor finger and tweeze dexterity test

4. Personality inventories and temperament tests

• Minnesota counseling inventory

• Rorschach inkblot test

• Thematic appreciation test

5. Polygraph and honesty tests

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Spatial Relations test

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Rorschach inkblot test
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Thematic appreciation test

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Step 4: Reference check and recommendations
• This method may have a built in bias in favor of applicant
• General information may be verified but still not adequate enough to
ascertain a candidate

Step 5: Physical Examinations

• Drug testing
• Abuse of substance
• Alcoholism
• Fit to the job
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Selection of manager
• Organizations expend more time, effort, and money hiring middle- to
upper- level executives
• A best known selection methods used for theses purpose is the
Assessment centers
- Individuals and group activities are observed and evaluated

- Multiple methods of assessment – Interviewing, objective testing,

projective testing, games, role playing and other methods
- Well designed assessment centers are expensive way to hire
managers