Chapters Two and Three Foundations of Recruitment and Selection

Module Two
Foundations of
Recruitment and Selection I:
Measurement, Reliability, and Validity

Readings: Chapter Two

Chapter Two Objectives

After reading this chapter, you should understand all of the following:

 Understand the basic components that make up a traditional personnel selection model.
Explain the concepts of reliability and validity.
 Recognize the importance and necessity of establishing the reliability and validity of
measures used in personnel selection.
 Identify common strategies that are used to provide evidence on the reliability and validity
of measures used in personnel selection.
 Discuss the requirement for measures used in personnel selection to evaluate applicants
fairly and in an unbiased fashion.
 Describe the practical steps needed to develop a legally defensible selection system.

Exercises

1. Review the Table 2.1 Recruitment and Selection Today: Human Resources
Management Science Versus Practice in Selection on page 34.
2. Review Recruitment and Selection Notebook 2.3: Practical Steps to Ensure Reliable
and Valid Selection on pages 58-59.
3. Complete Discussion Questions 1, 2, 4, 5, and 6 on page 60.
4. Make notes on the learning outcomes.

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FOUNDATIONS OF
RECRUITMENT AND SELECTION II:
LEGAL ISSUES

Readings: Chapter Three

Chapter Three Objectives

After reading this chapter, you should be able to understand all of the following:

 Discuss the major legal issues affecting recruitment and selection. [Understand]
 Identify how relevant human rights and employment equity legislation and policies affect
recruitment and selection in your organization. [Apply]
 Understand and describe how legal concerns affect the practice of recruitment and
selection. [Understand, Apply]
 Discuss the key legal concepts that have had an impact on recruitment and selection in
Canada. [Understand, Evaluate]
 Apply the basic concepts and principles discussed in the chapter to the development of
recruitment and selection systems that meet legal requirements.

Exercises

1. Review each of the following tables:

a. Table 3.1 Prohibited Grounds of Employment Discrimination in Canadian Jurisdictions
on pages 71-72;
b. Table 3.2 Developing and Implementing an Employment Equity Plan on page 76;
c. Table 3.3 Guidelines to Screening and Selection in Employment on pages 85-87;
d. Table 3.5 Practices for Nondiscriminatory Recruiting on page 103; and
e. Table 3.6 Practices that Promote Positive Recruiting Perceptions on page 104.

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Module Three
Foundations of
Recruitment and Selection II:
Legal Issues

Readings: Chapter Three

Chapter Three Objectives

After reading this chapter, you should be able to understand all of the following:

 Discuss the major legal issues affecting recruitment and selection. [Understand]
 Identify how relevant human rights and employment equity legislation and policies affect
recruitment and selection in your organization. [Apply]
 Understand and describe how legal concerns affect the practice of recruitment and
selection. [Understand, Apply]
 Discuss the key legal concepts that have had an impact on recruitment and selection in
Canada. [Understand, Evaluate]
 Apply the basic concepts and principles discussed in the chapter to the development of
recruitment and selection systems that meet legal requirements.

Exercises

1. Review each of the following tables:

f. Table 3.1 Prohibited Grounds of Employment Discrimination in Canadian Jurisdictions
on pages 71-72;
g. Table 3.2 Developing and Implementing an Employment Equity Plan on page 76;
h. Table 3.3 Guidelines to Screening and Selection in Employment on pages 85-87;
i. Table 3.5 Practices for Nondiscriminatory Recruiting on page 103; and
Table 3.6 Practices that Promote Positive Recruiting Perceptions on page 1