Brief Definition of Alternative Recruitment Strategies
Alternative recruitment strategies are short-term measures used to attract potential persons to fill vacant positions in an organization to meet the staffing and maintenance needs of organizations without the long-term responsibility that the recruitment function requires. These include overtime, temporary employment, and contracting (outsourcing).
Introduction
This chapter assesses alternative recruitment strategies. It begins with an overview of how recruitment strategies evolved in human resource management (HRM). It highlights the critical role of recruitment as it pertains to its staffing and maintenance activities in public organizations. It also illustrates the complexity of this function as it relates to costs, time, and labor intensiveness. There are paradoxes that need to be addressed, and this also has...
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Roach, C.M.L. (2016). Alternative Recruitment Strategies. In: Farazmand, A. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_2734-1
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