Mr. Albay is the HR Manager at Sero Ltd. He has been assigned the task of hiring 25 sales representatives for the Marketing Department. The steps he would undertake sequentially would be:
A. Recruitment
B. Estimating the manpower requirements
C. Placement and orientation
D. Selection
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → B, A, D, C
B. Estimating the manpower requirements — first step of the staffing process. Mr. Albay must first know how many sales representatives are needed and of what kind; here the number is 25.
A. Recruitment — second. Recruitment is the search for prospective employees and making them apply for the job, so that there is a pool of candidates.
D. Selection — third. Selection chooses the right persons from that pool through tests and interviews. Recruitment brings people in; selection picks from them.
C. Placement and orientation — fourth. The chosen persons are introduced to the organisation and put on the jobs for which they were selected.
NCERT (2026-27 Edition): “Staffing Process … (i) Estimating the Manpower Requirements: You are aware that 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. …” “(ii) Recruitment: Recruitment may be defined as the process of searching for prospective employees and stimulating them to apply for jobs in the organisation. …” “(iii) Selection: Selection is the process of choosing from among the pool of the prospective job candidates developed at the stage of recruitment. …” “(iv) Placement and Orientation: Joining a job marks the beginning of socialisation of the employee at the workplace. …” |