Inside or Outside Recruiting

QUESTION 4 

Read the incident 6–1 (Inside or Outside Recruiting?) in your textbook, and answer the following questions:

a.    Is recruiting the problem in this company?

I don’t think recruiting is the problem in the company.  This is because when the company did both internal and external recruitment, they were met with the same results which is, both sets of recruits gave up on the job.  The recruits hired internally did not measure up to the challenges of the job.  The management found out that these internal hirees often lacked the skills necessary to discharge their duties, even if they were already working for the company and were expected to be familiar with the challenges that they are going to face.  This shows that even with the required residency and experience in the company, it was not enough to prepare them for the challenges of middle management work.

On the other hand, the recruits hired externally left the company after two years, with the belief that they too cannot measure up to the expectations of the job.  Even if they were armed with the necessary industrial management degrees, they seemed to be raw yet and did not have the expertise and the experience to be able to handle complex and technical decisions.  This shows that even with the training they got from the university, theory that they learned there is not enough to prepare them for middle management decision making.

b. If you were the consultant, what would you recommend?

                If I were the consultant for the company, I would first assess the job requirements of being a middle management manager.  I will find out what specific skills are needed to be a successful middle management manager.  By knowing this data, I can then prepare an aggressive and intensive training program which would prepare either internal or external recruits vying for a position in middle management.  Moreover, I will also assess the current state of the people vying for these positions, to find out if they have the required skills and mental fortitude needed for the challenging post.  I wouldn’t want to waste the time and money of the company so I will make sure that each of those invited to these positions already possess the prerequisites which I have outlined for the job.  The next step would be to hold the training program and at each step, pose a challenge or challenges to ensure that only the toughest and the best can go to the next stage.  Each of these challenges are designed to mimic the real world challenges that go with the job.  Only those recruits who pass the penultimate stage will then be interviewed and considered for the middle management positions.