Recruitment (full-time employment)R

Recruitment (full-time employment)
Recruitment is the last alternative which should be done if lack of man-hours cannot be overcome by
increasing overtime work and increasing part-time employees. The consequence of recruitment is
company has to keep employees who are recruited as members of company until their retirement age.
There are two factors that must be noticed during the recruitment process: the qualitative and
quantitative factors of employees recruited. In order to maintain employees based on Japanese style of
management, so in practice, Japanese companies usually recruit new employees no more that their
needed, it is about 50-75% of needed. There are many procedures for measuring the qualitative factor.
Psychology test, written test, detailed interview for gathering the information about their educational
background, their family background, etc. can be used for selecting the employees. The quantitative
factor, that is the numbers of employees who should be recruited, is calculated by lack of man-hours
which is determined by comparing the desired man-hours, normal potential man-hours, and overtime.