Environmental Circumstances Influencing Selection
Internal environment A number of characteristics of the organization can influence the amount and type of selection process it uses to hire needed employee. Size, complexity, and technological volatility are a few of these. Since the development and implementation of large-scale selection efforts can be very costly, complex selection systems are most often found in larger organizations with the economic resources necessary to pay for such systems. Size alone, however, doesn’t determine how selection is approached. For an organization to recover the costs of developing an expensive selection system, there must be a sufficient number of job that need to be filled. In structurally complex organizations with many job titles but very few occupants, the number of years needed to get back the money invested in such a selection system may be too great to justify its initial expense.