Recruiting Employees

Individual and Organizational Perspectives

Alison E. Barber

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Year: 1998
• Print ISBN: 9780761909439, 9780761909422
• eBook ISBN: 9781452250892
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Human Resource Management
• Index: Business

Recruiting Employees describes what is currently known and what remains to be learned about the processes by which organizations recruit new members. In this volume, Alison E. Barber delineates three separate stages of recruitment generating applications, maintaining applicant status, and influencing job choice and discusses existing knowledge and important unanswered questions relevant to each of these stages. She also addresses the question of whether and how recruitment influences organizational outcomes. Traditional recruitment topics such as recruitment source effects and reactions to initial interviews are covered in detail. Alternative frameworks and different research, requiring different theoretical frameworks and different research methods, are also proposed. Researchers, scholars, and students interested in studying or contributing to the research literature on recruitment will find this a valuable resource.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Foundations for Organizational Science
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction to the Series
• Chapter 1 - Introduction
• Key Dimensions of Recruitment
• Using the Key Dimensions to Organize and Evaluate Recruitment Research
• Structure of Remaining Chapters
• Chapter 2 - Generating Applicants
• Organizational Issues in Applicant Generation
• Applicant Issues: The Decision to Apply
• Spillover in Early Recruitment
• Conclusion
• Chapter 3 - Maintaining Applicant Status
• Initial Face-to-Face Contacts
• Recruitment and Attraction After the Initial Interview
• Communication Realism During Recruitment
• Conclusion
• Chapter 4 - Influencing Job Choice
• Content Issues in Job Choice Decisions
• Job Choice Process
• Job Choice Processes and Post-Hire Outcomes
• Conclusion
• Chapter 5 - Does Recruitment Matter? The Organization's Perspective
• Utility Models of Recruitment
• Recruitment and Organizational Effectiveness
• Expanding the Traditional Recruitment Research Approach
• Conclusion
• Chapter 6 - Toward an Agenda for Recruitment Research
• Key Dimensions of Recruitment: "What do We Know?
• Guidelines for Future Research
• Concluding Remarks
• References
• Index
• About the Author