HRM Module 7-8: Recruitment and Delegation

Module 7-8: Recruitment and Delegation

• Recruitment:
  • Refers to identifying, attracting, interviewing, selecting, hiring, and onboarding employees.
  • Internal Recruitment: recruitment that takes place within the organization, including internal job postings, promotions, transfers, and re-employment of ex-employees.
  • External Recruitment: sourcing candidates from outside the organization, including employment agencies, employment exchanges, and advertisements.
• Delegation:
  • Involves assigning a broad area of responsibility to an individual or group.
  • Types of Delegation:
    • Formal Delegation: involves a structured process of assigning tasks and responsibilities within an organization.
    • Informal Delegation: is less structured and may happen through verbal communication or informal arrangements.
    • Top to Bottom Delegation: involves delegating tasks and responsibilities from senior management to lower levels of the organization.
    • Bottom to Top Delegation: involves delegating tasks and responsibilities from lower levels of the organization to senior management.
    • Lateral Delegation: involves delegating tasks and responsibilities between peers or colleagues at the same level of the organization.

Module 9-10: Leadership

• Leadership:
  • Is the process of influencing others to achieve goals.
  • Leadership Process:
    • Involves leaders and team members working together to achieve goals.
    • Leadership Emergence: leaders emerge through their experiences rather than formal training or experience.
• Leadership Capacities:
  • Self-awareness: knowing oneself well enough to know what one wants and who one is.
  • Self-management: managing one's own emotions and behaviors effectively.
  • Social awareness: being aware of others' feelings and perspectives.
  • Relationship management: building relationships with others.

Module 11-12: Motivation

• Motivation:
  • Is the process that initiates, guides, and maintains goal-oriented behaviors.
  • Intensity: refers to how hard a person tries to achieve their goals.
  • Direction: refers to the area to which an individual focuses their efforts.
• Theories of Motivation:
  • Content Theory: refers to what a person needs in their life (their content), and these are often called need-based theories.
  • Process Theory: relates to a person's behaviors and psychological processes.

Module 13: Communication

• Communication:
  • Is the process of exchanging information and ideas between individuals or groups.
  • Types of Communication:
    • Formal Communication: exchanging official information between two or more people within the same organization, following predefined rules and using official channels of communication.
    • Informal Communication: exchanging information, either oral or written, that doesn't fall within the traditional structures, methods, or hierarchies of the business.
  • Direction of Communication:
    • Upward Communication: occurs when staff communicate with higher-ranking officials, such as an employee speaking with their manager.
    • Downward Communication: occurs when an employee is communicating with staff below them in the organizational structure.
    • Horizontal Communication: occurs between two employees on the same level of the company hierarchy.

Module 14-16: Ethics and Social Responsibility

• Ethics:
  • Refers to well-founded standards of right and wrong that prescribe what humans ought to do.
  • Business Ethics: moral principles, policies, and values that govern the way companies and individuals engage in business activity.
• Social Responsibility:
  • Refers to a company's duty to society beyond its economic and legal obligations.
  • Types of CSR:
    • Environmental Responsibility: taking active measures to promote sustainability and natural conservation.
    • Ethical Responsibility: setting operational policies that are fair and ensure equal opportunities for all employees.
    • Philanthropy: donating a portion of one's wealth to an environmental or social cause.

This quiz covers the concepts of recruitment and delegation in Human Resource Management, including internal and external recruitment methods. Test your knowledge of the recruitment process and delegation techniques.