An Essay Critiquing Recruitment and Selection

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An Essay Critiquing Recruitment and Selection of
HRM Practice Within the University of West
Scotland (UWS)

Abstract
Selection and recruitment are inevitable human resource management practices within any kind
of organization specially in educational institutions as human resource are most important in
these establishments. The University of the West of Scotland (UWS) perform its own selection
and recruitment practices. The UWS has both internal and external recruitment practice within
HR management which employ roles inside and outside of the organization. External recruitment
brings innovation and change to educational organization on the one hand. But this practice
sometimes requires extra expenditure for the management and training of novice employees.
Moreover, the university may be deprived from its internal expertise. However, internal
recruitment may minimize these expenditures as employees are experienced in this regard. But,
this kind of recruitment can not bring innovation and creativity to the educational establishment.
The University of West Scotland has options of in-house resourcing, outsourcing, and other
suitable recruitment policies to make its human resource practices effective and efficient.
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Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Human Resource Management (HRM): Recruitment and Selection..............................................3
A critical review of UWS’ current practices of Recruitment and Selection....................................6
Recommendations and conclusion..................................................................................................7
Reference.........................................................................................................................................9
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Introduction
The University of the West of Scotland (UWS) is a university with a branch in London, England.
In August 2007, the University of Paisley merged with Bell College, Hamilton, to form what is
now known as the University of Paisley and Bell College, Hamilton. Since its founding in the
late nineteenth century, it has gone through a number of name changes and unions, reflecting the
institution's advanced growth across the west of Scotland area during the previous century.
Currently, it is headquartered in Glasgow (UWS, 2022). Like all other human resource
management policies and practices, recruitment and selection practices have their own
regulations and practices. Human resource management is a proactive approach to the
appropriate management of people in an organization with the goal of enabling the firm to gain a
major competitive advantage via their contributions to the business. Its ultimate purpose is to
maximize employee performance in order to fulfill the strategic objectives of the company under
consideration. The fundamental objective of human resource management inside an organization
is the development of leadership within the company, which is primarily concerned with
procedures and laws. In human resource management practice, recruiting and selecting, training
and employee loyalty, interaction, evaluation and performance evaluation, punitive proceedings,
and legislative acts, as well as the role they play in education, are all covered (Popescu &
Kyriakopoulos, 2022). The processes of recruitment and selection are two of the most powerful
aspects of human resources administration. When applied to the UWS, this article will situate the
process of recruitment process as a human resource element in its historical and contemporary
contexts. The findings of the research will be used to highlight the existing practices of the
institution in the areas of recruiting and selection. The present human resource management
procedures at the institution have indeed been critically studied and appraised in the next portion
of this article. Finally, the essay addressed the university's areas for development in terms of
recruitment and screening methods, as well as making some suggestions for change.
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