Staffing the Contemporary Organization: A Guide to Planning, Recruiting, and Selecting for Human Resource Professionals, 2nd Edition

A thoroughly revised edition providing a comprehensive treatment of staffing procedures, policies, techniques, and problems for human resource professionals and students. Few business functions are more important than putting people where they can do the most good. Get it right, and the business soars. Get it wrong, and the business pays dearly in reduced sales, profits, and productivity. Staffing the Contemporary Organization provides a comprehensive treatment of staffing procedures, policies, techniques, and problems. It includes a number of human resources topics not usually covered in one volume—HR planning, legal aspects of staffing, recruiting, selecting, performance appraisal, career development, and many others—in an integrated system. The method presented is a proven, useful tool that managers and HR people can employ to build stronger, more resilient organizations.This thoroughly revised edition provides a comprehensive treatment of staffing procedures, policies, techniques, and problems. It covers areas newly developed since the last edition, like recruiting via the Internet and new court decisions that clarify the scope and application of antidiscrimination laws in the workplace. Among other topics, it covers the following areas in detail: -Employment law -Job analysis -Recruiting and interviewing -Selecting and selection tests -Appraisals and employee development -Administration: Handling promotions, demotions, layoffs, terminations, etc. -Career planning -Measuring the effectiveness of the HR function. Staffing, the authors contend, must encompass the entire range of activities associated with planning for, obtaining, utilizing, and developing human resources. Suitable for business students as well as professionals, this is the first book to present a systems view of the staffing function—a view necessary to maximize the contribution of any company's most important asset: its people. This thoroughly revised edition provides a comprehensive treatment of staffing procedures, policies, techniques, and problems. It serves as a practical, on the job reference for human resources professionals and a comprehensive guide for students. Presented as an integrated system, this useful resource includes up-to-date information on these core human resources functions: human resources planning, human resources administration and system evaluation, legal issues in staffing, recruiting, selection and interviewing, performance appraisal, employment testing, and career development. The wide variety of human resources topics covered here is not usually treated in one volume. Moreover, this book presents the encompassing systems view of the staffing function in one volume for the first time

This thoroughly revised edition provides a comprehensive treatment of staffing procedures, policies, techniques, and problems. It includes a number of human resources topics not usually covered in one volume—human resources planning, legal aspects of staffing, recruiting, selecting, performance appraisal, career development, and many others—in an integrated system. A useful tool for human resource professionals and students at all levels.

The authors contend that the entire range of activities associated with planning for, obtaining, utilizing, and developing human resources must be viewed as an integrated system called staffing. This is the first book to present this encompassing systems view of the staffing function.