Examining the relationship between recruitment & selection practices and business growth: An exploratory study

• Published date: 01 May 2022
• Author: Saliha Gul Abbasi,Muhammad Sohail Tahir,Mazhar Abbas,Muhammad Salman Shabbir
• Date: 01 May 2022
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/pa.2438

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Examining the relationship between recruitment & selection

practices and business growth: An exploratory study

Saliha Gul Abbasi

1

| Muhammad Sohail Tahir

2

| Mazhar Abbas

3

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Muhammad Salman Shabbir

4

1

The University of Azad Jammu & Kashmir,

Muzaffarabad, Pakistan

2

Department of Management Sciences,

COMSATS University Islamabad, Vehari,

Pakistan

3

Department of Management & MIS, College

of Business Administration, University of Hail,

Hail, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

4

Department of Management, College of

Commerce and Business Administration,

Dhofar University, Salalah, Oman

Correspondence

Mazhar Abbas, Department of Management

& MIS, College of Business Administration,

University of Hail, Hail, Kingdom of

Saudi Arabia.

Email: m.hussain@uoh.edu.sa,

mazhar.abbas562@gmail.com

The study aims to evaluate the factors that can be incorporated into the process of

selection and recruitment for business growth in Pakistan. An exploratory study

based on the content analysis technique was applied to conduct this research. This

study found that the performance of the employee and the procedures of selection

and recruitment play a significant role in business growth. This study has also identi-

fied that the recruitment process is more helpful for the selection of the right candi-

date for the job. With the help of the appropriate recruitment structures, the human

resource management department will be capable of choosing the right employee. It

is found that the more skilled and qualified individuals play an essential role in the

growth of the organization. Only the selection and recruitment of the right employee

is not enough for the growth of the business, but the provision of the more appropri-

ate working environment for the employees plays an important role to increase their

performance that a relationship with the productivity and growth of the organization.

It is also explored that after the selection of the right employee, it is more critical for

the organization to keep them motivated for decreasing the job turnover by increas-

ing the employee retention ratio.

1|INTRODUCTION

An appropriate workplace can increase the efficiency of the

employees. It may also be the result of a viable process of employee

selection and recruitment (Noe, Hollenbeck, Gerhart, & Wright, 2017).

At the same time, an effective procedure of selection and recruitment

can ensure that an organization provides the most appropriate oppor-

tunity for a specific activity or job to their employees. In any case, the

research, for instance, Paauwe and Boon (2018) has shown that

human resource (HR) managers do not appropriately follow proper

recruitment and selection procedures in the majority of the organiza-

tions (Haider et al., 2015).

Consequently, organizations experience high staff turnover,

absenteeism, job updates, high training costs, job shocks, and low effi-

ciency (Inkinen, 2016). In addition to this, Demir, Wennberg, and

McKelvie (2017) pointed out that every manager should take care of

his/her HR, as HR is the most significant resource of any organization.

Earlier, the HR of the board of directors were not considered

significant, and, accordingly, many organizations did not pay much

attention to the procurement of individuals (Dany & Torchy, 2017).

This led to the fact that the heads of the HR department suffered

from the nature of competitors and the lengthy process of recruit-

ment. It is unlikely that any organization will continue to contract

employees, as they did several years ago (Zhao, Liu, Li, & Yu, 2020).

This means that many HR managers still do not consider the selection

and recruitment to be an essential function in the HR department.

Perhaps this is why organizations make complaints that it is hard to

find a reasonable job candidate.

Furthermore, it is given that the organization plays an essential

role in the training process. It is imperative that they recruit the right

candidate, and retain them in the organization. By applying, the inac-

curate process of selection and recruitment may affect the efficiency

of the organization to provide incredible opportunities. Nevertheless,

there are specific problems in the selection and recruitment proce-

dures, for example, the vague distribution of responsibilities, the

incompetent labor force that conducts interviews, and others. Such

Received: 9 August 2020 Revised: 21 August 2020 Accepted: 25 August 2020

DOI: 10.1002/pa.2438

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