Read the following case and answer the question.

Due to heavy demand in the market, the Automobile Company XYZ Ltd. is facing shortage of manpower. Currently it has 5000 employees and need 500 more due to heavy demand. The manufacturing unit of company majority requires mechanical engineers, mechanic and designers. In a recent meeting various suggestions were obtained from HR manager, finance manager and production manager to the company. HR manager says Advertisement is a good method of recruitment whereas production manager is of the opinion to do campus recruitment. Finance manager refuses both offers as both are costly source of recruitment. According to him recommendation of employees is the best source.

XYZ Ltd is going to hire Mechanical Engineers and Designers.

Which of the following will be performed after the selection of the candidates?

Placement and Orientation

The correct answer is option (3)- Placement and Orientation.

After the selection of candidates for the positions of Mechanical Engineers, Mechanics, and Designers, the following step will be performed Placement and Orientation.

Placement and orientation involve assigning the selected candidates to their respective roles within the organization and providing them with the necessary information and training to become familiar with their new positions and the company's policies and procedures. This step ensures that the newly hired employees are effectively integrated into their roles and the organization.

The prime concern of the staffing function in the management process is the timely fulfillment of the manpower requirements within an organisation. A brief description of the staffing process is as follows-

• Estimating the Manpower Requirements: While designing the organisational structure, we undertake an analysis of the decisions and the decision-making levels, activities as well as relationship among them with a view to evolving the horizontal and vertical dimensions of the structure. Thus, various job positions are created. Clearly, performance of each job necessitates the appointment of a person with a specific set of educational qualifications, skills, prior experience and so on.

• Recruitment: Recruitment may be defined as the process of searching for prospective employees and stimulating them to apply for jobs in the organisation. The information generated in the process of writing the job description and the candidate profile may be used for developing the ‘situations vacant’ advertisement. The advertisement may be displayed on the factory/ office gate or else it may be got published in print media or flashed in electronic media. This step involves locating the potential candidate or determining the sources of potential candidates. In fact, there are a large number of recruitment avenues available to a firm. The essential objective is to create a pool of the prospective job candidates.

• Selection: Selection is the process of choosing from among the pool of the prospective job candidates developed at the stage of recruitment. Even in case of highly specialised jobs where the choice space is very narrow, the rigour of the selection process serves two important purposes: (i) it ensures that the organisation gets the best among the available, and (ii) it enhances the self-esteem and prestige of those selected and conveys to them the seriousness with which the things are done in the organisation. After selection placement and orientation is done.

• Placement and Orientation: Joining a job marks the beginning of socialisation of the employee at the workplace. The employee is given a brief presentation about the company and is introduced to his superiors, subordinates and the colleagues. He is taken around the workplace and given the charge of the job for which he has been selected. This process of familiarisation is very crucial and may have a lasting impact on his decision to stay and on his job performance. Orientation is, thus, introducing the selected employee to other employees and familiarising him with the rules and policies of the organisation. occupying the position or post for which the person has been selected.