Causes and Consequences of Poor Recruitment and Selection

Introduction to Human
Resource Management
& Learning and Talent
Development

INTRODUCTION
Human resource management is a complied strategic approach with which all the efficient
and effective nature and the management of people is underlined. This helps out to maintain the
business gain and also the regular advancement in the productivity. Their main aim is to provide
the appropriate designs for the effective management and also for enhance the employee’s
performance with their general strategic objectives. Their main aim is to work on the
recruitment, selection and also to address all such strategic objectives. All the HR manager of the
company try to manage the growth by addressing and implementing the effective training and
development sessions along with it their will be seen that vary recruitment and selection which is
made by the employees should also be in skilled manner. The organisation chosen in this report
is Tesco which is a well-known retail sector headquartered in London UK. They eventually deals
with
TASK
High employee turnover and poor performance are normally associated with poor recruitment
and selection. a) What are the causes of poor recruitment and selection? b. Discuss some
of the impact/consequences of ineffective recruitment and selection process.
Employees are the most important factor who are directly and indirectly affects the growth of an
organisation. Human resources are used to defined the group of people who work for a company
and managing all the activities of an organisation. The selection of effective employees is very
complex procedure because hiring right person at right place may likely to decrease the earning
and revenue capacity of an organisation. Turnover simply means separation of employees from
the organisation due to lack of satisfaction for salary, late working hours , conflicts and
misunderstanding among the employees of the company. If poor selection is taken place, it may
affect the overall performance of the company and leads to employee turnover, cost reduction,
job unsatisfactory etc. The process of hiring and recruiting requires huge cost in selecting the
human resource asset. The companies are concerned with making the best selection process for
choosing effective and efficient employees by them. Due to commercialization and
industrialization of economy, it is the biggest challenge to find out the result oriented person for
the company who put all their efforts in achieving the goal of the company. Also, necessity is

arises when plan are need to be formulated and policies are to be framed, human resource applies
their creative mind to successful implementation of those strategic plans. But many instances, it
is observed that poor selection process reduce the outcome and leads to retention of staff, high
employee turnover are the consequences of mis-hiring procedure. High employee turnover is the
main issue which highly pressurized the organisational environment. When employees leaves a
company, the most obvious financial damage is caused by having to conduct the selection
process and recruiting fees along with time and money of the management to assess desirable
candidate. In context to Tesco , they used highly skilled professional for conducting selection
process for assessment programme to evaluate the skills of the candidate. Tesco has well
established selection process which strengthen their financial soundness and help in diversifying
their company. Any company which does not follow expertise skill for conducting recruitment
process may fallen down due to lack of professional skills for finding out desirable candidate for
their job position. Excessive turnover is unavoidable because it is the duty of the company to
satisfy their employees by providing them various incentives, facilities, compensation ,
reasonable working hours and many more. Sometimes, it is very difficult to cooperate in the
environment where there is heavy work pressure and bad management system leads to high
employee turnover in the company. Therefore, Higher employee turnover highlights the lower
productivity and low profitability.
Causes of poor recruitment and selection:
Recruitment and selection process involves forecasting of personnel according to their
qualification to meet the organisation demands of the growth and development. Recruitment
process includes in depth study of personality and comprehensive evaluation of the human
resources to ensure quality , quantity of the application for smooth running of selection process.
But many times, it is very difficult to analyse each and every aspect of human resources because
it is contingent in nature and can be changed over time. Tesco, the UK based company is a good
example of comprehensive recruitment process which makes them reputed company because
their hard-working employees , expertise in various skills and knowledge. In today times, every
company requires to follow these strategies to enhance their productivity.
Lack of planning for human resources: Planning is important for smooth functioning of an
organisation . If there is no planning for human resource then it is impossible to satisfy