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R&S-X09
PGDM-PT-2009-12: Term-VIII
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
3983710
sangeeta@ximb.ac.in
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.
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. ability to learn specific skills in recruitment and selection, and
2. practice these skills in classroom settings
Course Description
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:
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
5. 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
The instructor 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. However, the students would be free to refer to any textbook as a reference material after consultation with the instructor.
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
Course Evaluation
1. Mid Term: 10 marks
2. End Term: 35 marks
3. Group Project: 35 marks
4. In-Class Participation: 20 marks
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Debasis Mohanty
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08/19/2011
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