(Podcast) Planning, Recruitment and Selection of Human Resource‪s‬ Open University Malaysia

Episode 1 discusses human resource planning activities. Other important subjects that are discussed in this topic are: identifying external influences, forecasting employee demand and supply and planning staffing activities related to a gap analysis.

Episode 2 is about how external influences affect the staffing process. Economic situations, the labour market, workers unions, technology, government policy and globalisation are among the external influences that we will go through. All the above affect staffing.

Episode 3 introduces you to the meaning of staffing. In this topic, you will also study the staffing model, that is, the matching of individual/work and individual/organisation. At the end of Topic 3, the human resource model will be covered to show the position of staffing in human resource management.

Episode 4 is about internal recruitment. This topic will cover planning, strategy development, message selection and the appropriate mediums used to fulfil internal recruitment.

Episode 5 covers planning, recruitment strategy development and message selection along with the suitable mediums for external recruitment in greater detail.

Episode 6 discusses realistic recruitment and how it can be applied to overcome the ineffectiveness of traditional recruitment activities which are still widely used in many organisations. Other aspects highlighted are how to design and evaluate the effective use of realistic recruitment.