This assignment involves writing an essay that addresses the question below: Recruitment and selection policies and practices are said to be crucial to the achievement of corporate and business strategy.

Recruitment and selection policies

The essay should be 2000 words in length (+/- 10%). Essay Question: Recruitment and selection policies and practices are said to be crucial to the achievement of corporate and business strategy. Critically assess how such achievement can be secured. Essay outline: · Define recruitment, selection and talent management · Linking people resourcing to strategy o Supporting employer brand with the employee value proposition o The role of workforce planning · Methods of recruitment · Selection methods · Supporting reliability and validity in the selection process

Recruitment and selection policies

· CIPD factsheets are a good starting point but your core texts will help. This is a good summary: Derous, E., & De Fruyt, F. (2016). Developments in recruitment and selection research. International Journal of Selection and Assessment, 24(1), 1-3. · Course textbook: Henderson, I. (2017). Human Resource Management for MBA and Business Masters, (3rd ed). London: CIPD. · Use a chart if needed for the recruitment and selection process (CIPD, 2021). · Use the above references with additional references from below:

Recruitment and selection policies

References: · Akhtar, R., Winsborough, l., Lovric, D., & Chamorro-Premuzic, T. (2020) Chapter 10. “Identiying and managing talent in the age of artificial intelligence”, in Oswald, F., Bahrend, T., & Foster, L.(Eds) (2020) Workforce Readiness and the Future of Work, 1st Edition. RoutleArmstrong, M. (2011). Armstrong’s handbook of strategic human resource management. Kogan Page Publishers, London. · Armstrong, M. (2011). Armstrong’s handbook of strategic human resource management. Kogan Page Publishers, London.

Recruitment and selection policies

· Atkinson, J. (1984) “Manpower Strategies for Flexible Organizations”, Personnel Management, August, pp 28 – 31. · Botha, A., Bussin, M., & De Swardt, L. (2011). An employer brand predictive model for talent attraction and retention. SA journal of human resource management, 9(1), 1-12. · CIPD (2021) Resourcing and Talent Survey, CIPD, Wimbledon. · CIPD (2018) Workforce Planning accessed at https://www.cipd.co.uk/Images/workforce-planning-guide_tcm18-42735.pdf on June 13 2022.

Recruitment and selection policies

Deloitte (2020) Activating the internal talent marketplace accessed at https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/insights/focus/technology-and-the-future-of-work/internal-talent-marketplace.html on 13 June 2022. · Douglas, R., Duffy, R., England, J., & Gensmer, N. (2020) Chapter 1: “The psychology of working and workforce readiness: how to pursue decent work”, in Oswald, F., Bahrend, T., & Foster, L.(Eds) (2020) Workforce Readiness and the Future of Work, 1st Edition. Routledge, London.  https://youtu.be/sxjgL64czRY

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