What is the relationship between the business strategy and an entity’s organizational culture regarding recruiting decisions? Is it possible to strengthen the organizational culture without coordinating an enhanced recruiting effort? Explain your answer.

Which employee selection method would you recommend using? Provide an example and explain the positives and negatives attributed to this method. Use at least one short quote from Cascio to support your answer.

Watch the “Week Five Difficult Concepts” video.

Describe how you obtained new leads through networking in your previous job, or, Give me an example of a customer you’ve maintained through the years, and what did you do to maintain that relationship?

Watch the “Joby: Global HR Management” video.

The “Joby: Global HR Management” video provided an interesting glimpse into the HR practices of a creative, global organization. The organization has no HR department by considering each manager responsible for important HR management. The video also provided an interesting perspective on selection. After hiring a recruiting firm for source candidates for an international marketing position, the company found that the best candidate was an internal candidate who was in a different job.

 Should a company conduct an internal recruitment before expanding the search for candidates? Or, should the company conduct an external search while allowing internal candidates to apply? Some internal candidates I have worked with consider the decision to recruit externally a decision that internal candidates are not qualified.  What is your experience?

Watch the “Recruitment and Selection” video.

Step Five in the video is to develop a diverse pool of candidates. In the video Anne recommends, “…when you’re open to developing a diverse culture for your organization, your outreach should be as broad as possible,…”

 Anne also recommends looking for the “qualities and the qualifications” the organization needs to do the job. In your experience can the manager’s look for the “qualities and the qualifications” provide the rationale a manager needs to avoid developing a diverse pool of candidates?