R&S-P10

R&S-P10
PGDM 2010-12: Term-V

Recruitment and Selection

Instructor: Dr. Andrew Dutta

Room No. 072, TATA Centenary Learning Center,
Xavier Institute of Management,
Bhubaneswar, India
Extn: 798
Email: adutta@ximb.ac.in

Secretary: Ms. Sangeeta Barla
Extn: 710
sangeeta@ximb.ac.in

Target Group:
Though this course is an elective for students specializing in the HR field, other students specializing in different fields can also subscribe to this elective because as managers, they will also have to shoulder the staffing responsibility of their respective departments along with the corporate HR staffs.

This course also has the potential to help the participants fare better in the Placement interviews of their college since they would become aware about the various nuances of interviewing techniques through some of the inputs received in the classroom.

Course Credit:
1.5 credit course having 10 contact classes of 90 minutes each.

Course Introduction
Recruitment and selection continues to be one of the core functions of human resource management domain. In the last decade, this essential function has provided sustained competitive advantage to many companies in the Forbes Global 2000 Companies, among which there are 47 Indian corporates. With quick decline in the difference between line and staff managers due to the practice of human resource function as a strategic input, more responsibility has come over to HR managers to understand the line requirements of a department. Similarly, departmental managers are now increasingly being encouraged by enlightened leadership to get actively involved in staff functions, the most important ones being recruitment & selection and training & development.

In the light of this new paradigm ruling the corporate world, the fundamental step in HR management—recruitment and selection—has assumed paramount significance to the industry practitioners.

This course is primarily meant to improve the employability factor in the students who would opt for this course by specifically focusing on their:

1. Appraise the procedures of recruitment and selection of employees in their organizations in the backdrop of Indian industrial practices
2. Design and develop appropriate plans to identify, attract and link-up with applicant pool
3. Conduct processes of candidate screening and short listing
4. Ability to conduct different interview techniques

This course would therefore, enable the students to learn application skills through the participation in the design, operation and evaluation of recruiting and selection systems in the organizational context of India.

Course Description
The core HR function of recruitment and selection provide every organization with its most critical resource—people. According to the estimates of Hewitt Associate, a company loses about 3 times the cost of recruitment and selection on a candidate ‘wrongly selected’ (Wrong selection is generally taken as a candidate leaving an organization within 6 months of joining). So, HR professionals have a direct responsibility on the bottom line performance of the company by reducing mismanaged staffing costs.

This course will expose the students to develop learnt skills in conducting detailed job analysis, write job descriptions, specifications and job postings, identify KSA attributes of a job and match it with a candidate understand and conduct various interview techniques, assessing a candidate based on Competency Frameworks of an organization, deploy screening devices and rollout selection plans consistent with organizational goals.

Course Objective
The course is aimed at enabling the students to design, operate and evaluate the recruitment and selection system in their organizations in the backdrop of the Indian organizational context.

Learning Outcomes
The course is designed to enable the students achieve the ability to demonstrate the following:

5. Appraise the procedures of recruitment and selection of employees in their organizations in the backdrop of Indian industrial practices
6. Design and develop appropriate plans to identify, attract and link-up with applicant pool
7. Conduct processes of candidate screening and short listing
8. Ability to conduct different interview techniques
9. Design final selection processes

Course Delivery Method
This course being a primarily skill building course, the teaching methods will comprise of brief class lectures, collaborative classroom work, structured activities, professional skill builders, role plays and industry practice discussions. In short, the classes will be structured around a ‘workshop mode’ keeping in mind the need of students aspiring to become skilled professionals.

Course Material
Recommended Text: Strategic Staffing by Phillips and Gully. Pearson Education India, 2010.
The instructor also would be providing assorted reading materials taken from professional publications in order to keep industry relevance as prime importance. Hard copies of such materials would be provided in the classroom. Also, relevant materials underpinning the theoretical justification of the processes practiced in the class would also be provided to the participants. All class activity materials would also be provided separately to each participant.

Course Content

Session 1: Introduction, Understanding Legal compliance in India

Session 2: Job Analysis, Competency Modelling

Session 3: Identifying Sources, making sourcing plans

Session 4: External Recruitment

Session 5: Internal Recruitment

Session 6: Techniques of Candidate Assessment—1

Session 7: Techniques of Candidate Assessment—2

Session 8: Basics of Assessment Center based evaluations and techniques

Session 9: Basics of Assessment Center based evaluations and techniques

Session 10: Reference checking and job offers

Course Evaluation

1. Mid Term: 10 marks

2. End Term: 35 marks

3. Group Project: 35 marks

4. In-Class Participation: 20 marks

Dr. A. Dutta M.Com., PhD. is a Post Graduate in Business Finance from University of Calcutta and was awarded a Gold Medal for ranking first in the University and academic excellence. He completed his FPM from IIMT, specializing in Human Resource Management. Andrew was a Visiting Research Scholar to Bentley University, Massachusetts, USA where he developed his doctoral thesis in Information Systems under Dr. M. Lynne Markus. Before joining academics, Andrew worked in the advertising industry. He has publications in reputed national and international journals and edited books along with presentations in national and international conferences. Apart from teaching and research, Andrew is also involved in training in corporate and Government sector and providing consultancy through XIMB. Presently, he is the Admissions Coordinator in XIMB. He has conducted training programs for senior management level in reputed companies like Vedanta Aluminium, Paradeep Phosphates, NTPC, OTDC, CIFA, RWSS, Jindal Steel and Power Limited, Larsen and Toubro, NALCO, India Post and many others. He is also a Certified Assessment Center Assessor, Certified PCMM Assessor and Master Trainer for NACO-GFATM for HIV-AIDS counselors and Master Trainer for Dept. of Public Enterprises, Govt. of India for CSR training.
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