Recruitment and Selection in Healthcare

Literature Review

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
Methodology................................................................................................................................1
Internal and external recruitment.................................................................................................1
Comparison of chosen articles.....................................................................................................2
An evaluation of the conclusions and recommendations presented in the articles......................4
Relevance of this review to context of nursing...........................................................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
The purpose of this assessment is to answer the research question ‘What are the strengths
and weaknesses of recruitment and selection procedures?’. Recruitment and selection principles
are important for organizations working in all sectors. These help in providing appropriate job
descriptions that meet business requirements (Waugh and et.al., 2014). Recruitment and
selection principles ensure that organizations sources people in a lawful manner. Moreover, these
principles increase the credibility of procedures for recruiting and selecting applicants. When
human resource planning is to be conducted, the nurse managers are at the forefront of
operations. Literature reviews are important because these aim to provide up – to – date
understanding of subject matter as well as its significance to a particular practice. It assists in
comparing previous literatures on a topic thereby leading to identification of gaps.
Methodology
Based on the chosen research question, a search of articles was conducted ion databases
like Google Scholar. The search was guided by relevant inclusion and exclusion criteria. For
searching the articles, key words were used that comprise of recruitment, selection, procedures,
processes, methods, strengths, weaknesses. From the results that were retrieved after using key
search terms, only those articles were selected that met the inclusion criteria. This lead to
selection of four articles. Devaro (2016) conducted a study comparing the internal hiring and
external recruitment. The study is based on secondary research whereby the author has compared
the views of different researchers. Muscalu (2015) conducted a study on various sources through
which human resources are recruited in organizations. The author used secondary research for
achieving the aim of the study. Rodgers and et.al. (2013) carried out study on recruitment,
selection and retention of nursing and midwifery students in Scottish universities. Semi-
structured face- to- face and telephonic interviews were used by the author. Madera (2012)
studied the effectiveness of social media sites as selection tool by using questionnaire method.
Internal and external recruitment
According to Devaro (2016), hiring is one of the most important decisions of a firm.
Filling the vacancy through promotion or lateral transfer requires an employers to forgo the
opportunity of appointing a new hire externally. Though organizations use both external and
internal hiring methods, the firm may have a bias for favouring insiders. It can be analysed that
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