Traditional and Contemporary Approaches of Recruitment and Selection

The provided report discusses the functions of human resource management, including orientation, recruitment, open communication, compensation, and training. It also explains traditional and contemporary methods of recruitment and selection used by companies, such as advertising job positions, using social media platforms, and conducting behavioral interviews. The report further highlights the importance of open communication in promoting a friendly work environment, and providing training and development opportunities to improve employee skills.

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
INTRODUCTION
Resource Management is the process of managing the utilization of
resources and using the resources of an organization in effective
manner. Resources can be tangible or intangible. Like, people,
finance, equipment’s, material etc.
RAW FITNESS LONDON is a private company. Company is being
engaged in providing fitness services to its premium consumers. The
company provide services like, social networking, analytics, and
social networking etc. The parent website of Raw fitness London is
Zeta Global. Key peoples of the company are Jason Yan, Daniel Ha.
Human resource function
Human Resource means, human capital of an organization. They are the peoples that make efforts to
realize organizational goals. Human Resource Department of the company is responsible to perform
different Human Resource functions. They are as follows-
•Orientation- Human Resource Manager of Raw fitness London plays an important role in orientation of
employees. So that, they become familiar about the work culture of the company. Whenever new
employees are recruited, Manager of the company helps the employees to settle down and start the
working. Manager of the company meet the employees at regular intervals of time (Banfield, 2018).
•Recruitment and Selection- Recruitment is a process through which company attracts large number of
applicants for the vacant job position. Selection means, selecting the most desirable candidate having
required skills to perform the job. Human Resource Manager of Raw fitness London plays an important
role in recruiting new staff. They advertise the vacant job positions, performs screening of applications,
conduct interviews and select the suitable employees for the company.
•Open Communications- Company promotes a friendly an open environment for its employees. Raw
fitness London conducts weekly meetings for employees. So that, all the peoples that are working in the
company come together and discuss the issues they are facing. It helps the employees in communicating
freely with their co-workers. Company also have a plan under which, all employees eat together at lunch
time. It promotes the feeling of belongingness among workers (Bratton, 2017).
•Compensation- Human Resource Department of Raw fitness London plays an important role in
developing the policies related with compensation and benefits of employees. Manager of the company
develops a structure of compensation for employees according to their job position in the company. Raw
fitness London can provide benefits like, health insurance coverage to employees. For this, it has to
appoint a specialist who can negotiate with insurance company. Other benefits Human Resource
Manager of Raw fitness London can provide to its staff are providing flexible working options, Maternal
leaves for women employees etc.
•Training and Development- Another important role that Human Resource Department plays is,
providing training and development opportunity to existing and new employees. So that, the skills of
employees will improve and which help the company in bringing innovation in its core products like,
Embed(Cleaver, 2017).
Traditional and contemporary approaches of recruitment.
Different types of traditional and contemporary approaches of
recruitment and selection are as follows-
Traditional approaches of recruitment:
Human Resource Department of Raw fitness London can print
advertisement in local or national newspaper for filling the vacant job
positions in the company. So that, company will receive applications
from large number of applicants (Singh, 2016).
Company can put the notice of vacancy at factory gate for filling
vacant job position it is also called gate hiring.
Manager of Raw fitness London can ask existing employees to refer
the names of their friends or family members.
Company can contact employment exchanges that are set up by
government in various states.
Company can also use campus placement method for recruiting
talented and skilled workforce.
Traditional approaches of Selection:
Company can select the candidates who have passed the interview
stage after screening the applications received from applicants.
Contemporary approaches of recruitment:
Other than traditional methods of recruitment, Raw fitness London
can use to recruit skilled employees they are as follows-
Human Resource Department of the company can provide all the
details of vacant job position on social media platforms like,
Facebook, Instagram etc. It will help the company in attracting large
number of applications for the vacant job position (Stern, 2015).
Modern approaches of Selection:
Manager of the company can use advance technology to recruit
workforce. New methods that can be used are video conferencing and
Skype. These methods will help the company to save its cost and
time.
Raw fitness London can hire agency consist of professional peoples
that will check the background of the candidates before finally
selecting them.
Manager of the company can also conduct behavioral interview for
screening of suitable employees.
Practices of performance management.
Feedback- The company should implement a system of feedback. Communicating the targets to
employees is important but, getting feedback regarding their performance is also essential. So that, the
deviation between actual and standard performance can be reduced. Manager of Raw fitness London can
use checklist for getting feedback from staff. Company can also install a performance management
software.
Recognition- Raw fitness London should develop a policy for giving rewards like, high pay or family
tour and recognition for better performance of the employees. Company can provide financial and non-
financial incentives to motivate the workers. This will help the company to achieve organizational goals
in an effective manner.
Regular Meetings- Company should conduct regular meetings with employees to discuss the
performance of staff. It will provide an accurate feedback of employees. By having weekly meetings,
Manager can resolve the issues of their workers. And it will help to improve their performance.
Training- Company should provide training opportunities to their employees. It will help to improve the
skills of employees and help to avoid the gap between actual and standard performance of the staff
(Taylor, 2015).
CONCLUSION
The above Report has explained the term Human Resource and Resource Management. The Report has
summarized the functions of Human Resource functions. The Report has also described the traditional
and contemporary methods of recruitment and selection that can be used by the company. The Report
also described the practices of performance management which can be used by the company
REFERENCES
Books and Journals-
Banfield, P., Kay, R. and Royles, D. 2018. Introduction to human resource management. Oxford
University Press.
Bratton, J. and Gold, J. 2017. Human resource management: theory and practice. Palgrave.
Cleaver, F, 2017. Development through bricolage: rethinking institutions for natural resource