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Recruitment and Selection: A Strategic Approach for Canadian Organizations, 2nd edition

Published by Pearson Canada (March 31, 2022) © 2023

  • Hari Das Saint Mary's University
  • Carol Ann Samhaber Algonquin College

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Recruitment and Selection: A Strategic Approach for Canadian Organizations provides students with all of the employee recruitment and selection knowledge and skills to support organizational strategic advantage. Students will be best prepared to assume the roles of human resources management professionals if they possess the knowledge and skills to plan, design, implement, and evaluate recruitment and selection strategy and practice. Specifically, this text explores organizational and human resources management strategies, job analysis, employee recruitment campaigns, screening processes, selection tools and processes, decision making, and metrics.

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  • As the world shifts to a greater reliance on digital media, it is appropriate that this text evolves as well. This second edition is the first fully digital version of Recruitment and Selection: A Strategic Approach for Canadian Organizations. Instructors and students will find that, although the medium has changed, the content is fully consistent with prior editions.
  • Examples feature current Canadian industry best practices and trends
  • The content is highly focused to best prepare students for their future professional practice
  • The text positions employee recruitment and selection within the organizational strategic context
  • The book considers external environmental factors including diversity and inclusion and corporate social responsibility in relation to employee recruitment and selection strategy and practices
  • The running case at the end of each chapter allows students to consider the progression of employee recruitment and selection in a Canadian organization

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  • Learning Objectives. Each chapter opens with a set of learning objectives. These learning objectives focus on student performance and inform students of the learning outcomes for each chapter 
  • Discussion Questions. End-of-chapter discussion questions test students' understanding of the chapter material and suggest topics for class or group discussions.
  • Critical Thinking Questions. End-of-chapter critical thinking questions challenge students to expand on what they have learned by discussing broader, real-life relationships.
  • Web Research Activities. Additional sources are provided to help students conduct further research on related chapter topics.
  • Running Case. The running case at the end of each chapter builds upon the previous chapters to allow students to apply their employee.
  1. Organizational and Human Resources Management Strategies
  2. Reliability, Validity, and Ethics in Recruitment and Selection
  3. The Impact of Legislation on Recruitment and Selection
  4. Job Analysis and Competency Models
  5. Employee Recruitment
  6. Applicant Screening
  7. Employee Selection Testing
  8. Employee Selection Interviews and Checks
  9. Making the Selection Decision
  10. Employee Recruitment and Selection Metrics

Dr. Hari Das. Dr. Das received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia. He was a full professor in the Department of Management teaching graduate and doctoral level courses inhuman resource management, research methodology, performance management, international management, and organizational change. Dr. Das served as the director of the MBA program and chair of the Department of Management in Saint Mary’s University and received a teaching excellence award for his work in the EMBA program.

Dr. Das wrote over 100 articles and papers in areas such as organizational control, performance appraisal, power and influence, managerial pay, training, and research methodology. He wrote Organizational Theory with Canadian Applications, the first Canadian text in organizational theory, and contributed chapters to Retail Environments in Developing Countries and Canadian Human Resource Management. His co-authored work, Canadian Human Resource Management: A Strategic Approach was a market leader in the field. His other work, Strategic Organization Design: For Canadian Firms in a Global Economy, examined the challenge of preparing Canadian firms to face the global economy. His work, Performance Management, was the very first university text on the subject.

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