Selection is the process of choosing from a group of applicants the individual best suited for a particular position through the process of review of applications, selection tests, employment interview, reference and background checks, selection decision and physical examination.
Once the employee is hired, he should be placed in a suitable job. Placement is the determination of the job to which an accepted candidate is to be assigned and his assignment to that job. This process entails proper placement and follow up, since a misplaced employee is disgruntled and frustrated and cannot give his best to the organization. Proper placement will go a long way in reducing employee turnover, accident and absenteeism and improve the morale of the employees.
Induction follows placement and consists of the task of orienting or introducing the employee to the organization. Instead of leaving employees to stumble and stagger through the organization job, it is better systematically to introduce employees to the organization, its policy and its position in the economy.
The vertical approaches are demand/supply forecasting, human resource plans that ensure resourcing, flexibility and retention, and there is connectivity between this process and employees turnover and development activities. The starting point of the vertical process from human resource planning of staffing is demand and supply forecasts (HR Planning requires collection of data on the organizational goals objectives) and it leads to human resource plans where resourcing, flexibility and retention emanated. The analysis of retention plan feeds into labour turnover and also leads directly to developmental activities, and the entire process starts all over with human resource planning of staffing stage. Also, the starting process of the horizontal approach is human resource planning of staffing that leads to recruitment, selection, placement and induction. These processes feed into labour turnover and also lead directly to developmental activities, and the entire process starts all over with human resource planning of staffing stage.
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