The selection process doesn't include:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → Estimating manpower requirements
Option (1) Medical examination — A step in the selection process (Incorrect). Before the job offer, the candidate must be found medically fit for the job.
Option (2) Preliminary screening — A step in the selection process (Incorrect). It is the first step. Candidates who are unqualified or unfit are removed on the basis of their application forms.
Option (3) Contract of employment — A step in the selection process (Incorrect). It is the last step. It records the job title, duties, pay and other terms of the job.
Option (4) Estimating manpower requirements — Not a step in the selection process (Correct). It is the first step of the staffing process, taken before recruitment and selection begin. The manager decides how many people, and of what kind, the organisation needs.
NCERT (2026-27 Edition): “Process of Selection The important steps in the process of selection are as follows: “(vi) Medical Examination: After the selection decision and before the job offer is made, the candidate is required to undergo a medical fitness test. …” “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. 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. Thus, understanding manpower requirements is not merely a matter of knowing how many persons we need but also of what type. …” |