Hospitality Question
Purpose
Modern organizations face an unprecedented level of internal and external challenges in recruiting and selecting employees with the result that human resources and business leaders must be able to critically analyze their existing practices and as necessary adapt or transform these in order to have an effective workforce.
For this team assignment, student teams (teams of 5 students) will act as consultants to the company presented in the case study and help them resolve their current recruitment and selection challenges. In so doing, will address challenges faced by the business, and prepare customized job descriptions and job postings/advertisements. To round out this assignment, students will determine the optimum recruitment strategy and articulate how the performance of the new hire will be assessed and measure.
The purpose of the comprehensive team assignment is to:
- Gain an in-depth knowledge of the processes used by organizations to recruit and select employees.
- Enhance critical thinking, research writing and presentation skills.
- Strengthen teamwork, planning and time management skills.
- Develop customized job descriptions, baseline hiring qualifications, job advertisements or postings, interview questions, applicant screening tests for a manager and a front-line employee position and strategies to increase the validity and reliability of the recruitment and selection process.
- Locate and correctly reference secondary sources related to recruitment and selection and important aspects of the situation the HR professional faces. NOTE: General information from the Internet is not acceptable.
- Develop a better understanding of ethical behaviour in organizations as it relates to recruitment and selection of employees.
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