THE EFFECT OF RECRUITMENT AND SELECTION POLICY AS A TOOL FOR ACHIEVING HIGHER EMPLOYEE PRODUCTIVITY IN MANUFACTURING ORGANIZATIONS (A STUDY OF DOZZY GROUP OF COMPANIES)

ABSTRACT

This study titled the effect of recruitment and selection policy as a tool for achieving higher employee productivity in manufacturing organizations; a study of Dozzy Group of Companies. The objectives of the study are; to identify if external sources of recruitment strengthens diversity of talent within the organization, to identify the recruitment practices used in selecting qualified talents in the organization of the study and to examine the extent of bias in recruitment and selection exercise and its effect on employee productivity. Survey research design and descriptive design was used with a sample size of 133 obtained using Yaro Yamane’s formula out of the population of 200 employees in the organization of the study. 133 copies of questionnaire were distributed to the respondents and 115 was returned, representing 83% which was used for the analysis using correlation. The result of the analysis was carefully studied and utilized in making the research findings which indicated that external source of recruitment strengthens diversity of talent within the organization. It creates new ideas, refreshes the system, create challenges and change to the employees thereby affecting productivity. This study recommends that human resource practitioners should utilize both external and internal recruitment and selection practices in securing human element and to always use professional association in recruitment.

CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

1.1     Background of the Study

The success and achievement of the objective of an organization depends on the performance and caliber of human resources that make up such organization. This fact influenced the recruitment, and selection practices with special emphasis on Dozzy group of companies.

Since the industrial revolution economies started growing speedily in the developed countries and later on this process of growing industries and markets expanded to the whole world which turned into large completion among big companies operating in both public and private sectors. The world turned into global village which encouraged movement of Knowledge, Skills and Abilities across the cultures in the different countries in the world that caused the researchers focus towards the human resource management field to address different aspects related to the employees behavior particularly recruitment and selection. Most organizations focus more on human assets rather than physical assets.  An organization can be readily purchase equipment, manufacturing facilities, and most technologies, but the human talent are much hard to come by. Candidates who are able add value to their clients’ businesses shows the ability of a good recruitment company in searching talents. Human Resource may set strategies and develop policies, standards, systems, and processes that implement these strategies in a whole range of areas such as recruitment and selection.

There are two phases to make new selection of employees needed by the organizations, the first one is to generate a large pool of applicants and then make the best selection out of them. Recruitment is equally important to study because effectiveness of the selection directly depends on the how large and qualitative is the pool of applications.  Djabatey (2012) opined that this scenario lends credence to the increasing attention being paid to the people aspect of organizational assets because the development of people, their competencies and the process of the total organization are the pivot of human resource management. Similar to this development is the contention in National University of Ireland (2006) that the continued growth and development of an enterprise depends on its ability to recruit and select high quality personnel at all levels in respective of the cost of such action.The position to be filled must be defined in terms of job description and job specification. Thus, according to Ekwoaba, etal(2015), recruitments and selections have become essential in organizations because individuals need to be attracted on a timely basis, in sufficient numbers and with appropriate qualifications.The more effectively organizations recruit and select candidates, the more likely they are to hire and retain satisfied employees. In addition, the effectiveness of an organization’s selection system can influence bottom-line business outcomes, such as productivity and financial performance.The need for recruitment and selection in any organization depends on the existing vacancies to be filled or new post to be created, human resource department makes some decisions before considering if the company should recruit, decisions like the number of vacancy to be created, the profit the company makes which determines if the company would be able to pay the workers to be recruited, the number of workers needed. According to Gary (2009), the recruitment and selection process starts with employment or personnel planning. It is the process of deciding what positions the firm will have to fill and how to fill them. It is therefore very glaring that managements must be trained, and advised in recruitment and selection matters especially interviewing. It is often claimed that selection of workers occurs not just to replace departing employees or add to a workforce but rather aims to put in place workers who can perform at a high level and demonstrate commitment (Ballantyne, 2009).