UNIT – I Lesson 1 HRM – AN OVERVIEW Lesson Outline Nature of ...

The different selection tests are ability tests and personality tests. After the tests,
interviews will be conducted. Reference checks physical examination and final selection
follows.
The selected candidates are placed in suitable positions. Placement involves
assigning a specific job to each of the selected candidates. Then they are inducted.
Induction is introducing the new employee to work surrounding and people already
working there. There is formal induction and informal induction.
Answer Key
1. According to Dale Yoder, “Recruitment is a process to discover the source of
manpower to meet the requirements of staffing schedule and to employ effective
measures for attracting that manpower in adequate numbers to facilitate effective
selection of an efficient working force.”
2. Note the differences tabulated in the text of this lesson.
3. Ability tests and personality tests. The different ability tests are i) Aptitudes
tests, ii) Achievement tests, iii) Intelligence tests, iv) Judgement tests. The
personality tests are a) Interest tests b) personality inventory tests c)
Projective tests and d) Attitude tests.
4. Induction is the process of receiving and welcoming an employee when he first
joins a company, and giving him basic information he needs to settle down quickly
and happily and start work. There can be formal induction and informal induction.