Chapter 8 - Recruitment, Selection and Training
Chapter 8 - Recruitment, Selection and Training
Chapter 8 - Recruitment, Selection and Training
Selection and
Training of
Workers
CHAPTER 8
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Internal and
External
Recruitment
Recruitment
works in the manager or a
company. head
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Benefits and limitations of Internal Recruitment
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External
Recruitment
When employees are employed from outside the
business to fill a vacancy.
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Benefits and Limitations of External Recruitment
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Activity
Indeed.com
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Activity 2 – Using this template - prepare your
own CV
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Revision Activity
QUIZLET PRACTISE (ON TEAMS)
EASY
https://quizlet.com/393429863/igcse-business-studies-recruitment-flash-cards/
CHALLENGING
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Job Description
Once the business has identified the roles that the employee would be
expected to assume, it needs to produce a job description. This is a
document outlining the duties and responsibilities to be fulfilled by the
employee.
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Person Specification
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Stages in Recruitment and Selection of Employees
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Job Description
Once the business has identified the roles that the employee would be
expected to assume, it needs to produce a job description. This is a
document outlining the duties and responsibilities to be fulfilled by the
employee.
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Person Specification
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Class Project -Morna is looking for a new Business Teacher
In Group of 3 -
2. Draw up a
1. Draw up a job 3. Create an
person
description advertisement
specification
5. Carry out
4. Go through THE BEST ONES
interviews with the
some sample WILL GET A MERIT
most appropriate
applications AND A TREAT
candidates
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You must all work together on
each step, you can't move on
until , you’ve finished it and I´ve
checked it.
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Full Time and Part Time Employees
There is no set definition of what makes a full-time versus a part-
time employee as it varies from country to country. On average full-
time employees work 35 hours per week (or more)
and
Part-time employees work less than 35 hours per week.
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New employees,
Training - All
types of Employees who are being promoted to a
employees new position in the company,
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Why is Training Important
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Methods of Training -
• 1. Induction Training
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Take 10 mins to read the 3 methods
in your books
I´ll pick people randomly to come up and explain the
methods
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Activity 8.4 page 115
Think – about it individually
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Thursday 9th March
Activity 8.5
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Stages in Recruitment and Selection of Employees
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Job Description
This is a document describing what the jobs involves, what the workers will need to do – their
roles and responsibilities
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Class Project -Morna is looking for a new Business Teacher
In Group of 3 -
2. Draw up a
1. Draw up a job 3. Create an
person
description advertisement
specification
5. Carry out
4. Go through THE BEST ONES
interviews with the
some sample WILL GET A MERIT
most appropriate
applications AND A TREAT
candidates
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Exam Tuesday 28th March
Chapter 8 and 9
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Reasons for Reducing the Size of the Workforce
What are some reasons you can think of, why the numbers of workers in a business might reduce??
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Reasons for Reducing the Size of the Workforce
There may come a time when a business needs to terminate (end) the employment of some of its workforce
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retirement_in_Europe
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Dismissal and Redundancy
The difference between dismissal and redundancy
Both dismissal and redundancy involve the business asking an employee to leave.
However, there is a very important difference between them.
• Dismissal occurs when the employee is asked to leave the business because they are
not able to do the job or they have done something wrong. The job still exists and the
employee is replaced.
• Redundancy occurs when the business no longer needs the job and so the employee
doing that work is asked to leave. The job no longer exists after the employee leaves
and as a result the employee is paid some form of compensation (known as
redundancy pay). Usually done to save money
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What have you learnt so far?
Write your answers in notebooks
Question 1
Where the employee is asked to leave because their behaviour is unreasonable (not acceptable
or fair) or because they cannot do the job.’ What is this sentence defining?
A) Resignation
B) Retirement
C)Redundancy
D) Dismissal
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The Cosy Café has decided that it needs to make one of its supervisors redundant to save
costs. There are three supervisors: Zhang, Anna and Lucie.
Zhang has worked for the Cosy Café since it opened eight years ago and has never had a
day off sick. However, because of his experience and excellent efficiency he does have
the highest salary.
Anna has been working for the café for just over one year, and she has taken around 25
sick days in that time. She has the lowest salary of all three employees.
Lucie has been working for the café for three years and has taken eight sick days. She
does have the middle salary but she is willing to take a pay cut. Lucie is not as efficient
as Zhang or Anna.
Lucie
Explanation
It is illegal to dismiss an employee or make them redundant due to the number of sick
days they have had. As the cafe will be operating on a smaller scale it will be
important to have highly efficient workforce and Lucie is the least efficient staff
member on the team.
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Understanding the reasons for reducing a
workforce
There are many situations where a reduction in the size of the workforce might be necessary.
When a business decides to reduce the number of employees it has, this is known as downsizing
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Understanding the reasons for reducing
a workforce
External Events: Changes in the external environment can force the
business to make people redundant, such as a downturn in the economy,
BREXIT, COVID, etc.
Automation : Managers decide to replace people with machinery to
reduce costs or improve efficiency
Closure: Either the whole business closes (due to bankruptcy, for example)
or the manager closes part of the business to save costs.
Improve Efficiency: Owners might want to reduce the number of layers of the
organisational hierarchy in order to increase the speed of decision making.
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Deciding which employees should be made
redundant
There are several factors that need to be considered when deciding which employees
to make redundant.
• Will the employees volunteer to take redundancy? Some employees may be willing to
accept the redundancy payment and leave the business (for example, in order to take
early retirement or because they know they will easily get another job.
• How long have they worked for the company? Employees who have been with the
business for a long time will have learned the most skills, so are often retained.
• Do they have a good employment history? Employees with a bad record or high levels of
absenteeism are often made redundant.
• What is the reason for the redundancy? If the business is closing certain departments,
those employees would be made redundant.
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Questions –
Pratash works as a dyer for a textile manufacturer in Udaipur, India. He has been told that he is being made
redundant. The factory is investing in new machinery, which can dye four times as much cloth as Pratash
can by hand.
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The Impact of Legal Controls on Employment
Issues
Legal controls are restrictions put onto a business because of changes in the law.
They vary from country to country but contain the following key areas.
• Employment contracts
• Unfair dismissal
• Discrimination
• Minimum wages
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1. Employment
Contracts
This is the first legal control we will look at -
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Employment contracts-
Every employee has to be given a contract of employment
• Holiday entitlement
https://www.lawdepot.com/contracts/employment-contract/pre
view.aspx?webuser_data_id=156493615&loc=US
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Why do you think employees have to have a
contract according to the law?
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Contract of Employment -
Impact on Employees Impact on Employers
It provides job security because the working The improved job security lowers labour
conditions are set out in writing. turnover, reducing recruitment costs.
If the employer fails to deliver part of the If the employee does not fulfil part of their
contract, such as holiday benefits, the contract, the employer can legally dismiss
employee can sue the company them, so productivity is not negatively
impacted.
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Unfair Dismissal
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Unfair Dismissal
Impact on employees Impact on employers
If an employee is dismissed unfairly, If an employer is taken to an
they can take their employer to an industrial tribunal, they can incur
industrial tribunal and may receive high compensation costs. It can also
compensation. damage their employer branding.
If employees do not need to worry Employers have to keep more
about unfair dismissal, they feel detailed and accurate records of
more secure and more motivated. employee performance, potentially
lowering managers’ efficiency.
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STARTER - Activity – Case Study
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Exam Tuesday 28th March
Chapter 8 and 9
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Discrimination
Discrimination is the process of treating one individual, or group of individuals, less favourably than others
based on a characteristic or difference that is perceived as negative. Discrimination can take many forms
but the most common are shown in the figure below -
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Discrimination
Impact on employees Impact on employers
Employees must receive equal treatment and equal pay. Equal pay may mean that the employer has to increase
wages, resulting in higher costs.
Employees would be recruited based on their merits (the As employers recruit based on merit, employer branding
qualities and skills they have or have shown), not on increases.
discrimination, which increases motivation.
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Case Study – Discrimination
Case study - Miss M Kumulchew v Starbucks
In 2015, Meseret Kumulchew won a landmark court case against her employer, Starbucks, on the grounds of disability
discrimination. Meseret is dyslexic, which means that she has problems with written tasks and writing numbers, and she has to
be shown how to do tasks visually.
As a supervisor of a Starbucks in London, one of Meseret’s tasks was to take readings of the temperature of the refrigerators and
record them. However, because of her disability she mistakenly recorded the wrong information. Starbucks reviewed the
documents and accused her of fraud. Meseret, who had informed Starbucks of her dyslexia, said she was demoted (given a lower
position) from her role as supervisor and given duties to complete; a decision that led her to depression.
An employment tribunal (a UK court that hears employment cases) found that Starbucks had not taken reasonable steps to adjust
its working practices for Meseret’s disability and ruled in her favour. Meseret said that the decision was fair: ‘I’m not a fraud, I just
made a mistake’. Starbucks was forced to pay an amount in compensation and Meseret, who was still working for Starbucks as of
2016, was given additional support at work, including having someone check the information she recorded.
Questions
• Explain two ways in which Starbucks were affected by the ruling in this case. [6 marks]
• Providing safety equipment – Companies who require employees to work with anything
• Protection from dangerous machinery – Employees are required to have protection from
dangerous machinery with safety training and guidelines in place.
• Suitable hours of work – Working hours are very important as in some industries,
tiredness can be very dangerous, such as when working for an airline.
• Hygienic conditions – Employees must work in an area that is clean, safe and hygienic.
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Health and Safety
Impact on employees Impact on employers
A safe and clean environment can be A safe and clean workplace could
very motivating for employees. attract highly skilled employees.
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Minimum Wages
Minimum wages have been introduced in many countries to ensure that employees receive a wage that is
fair and protects their quality of life.
For example, in countries with very high unemployment and very low welfare support, businesses used to
offer low wages because the employees had no alternative. As a result, the government put protections
in place to make sure that these employees were paid a minimum wage that would allow them to afford
to live and make a decent salary
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Minimum Wages
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PAST EXAM PRACTISE 4 and 6 mark Qs
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