Staffing & the Case for Recruitment & Selection

There are many different reasons why an organization might allocate more resources towards marketing or product related departments, but there are some reasons that are more common than others. One reason that an organization might allocate more towards marketing, are the rewards that are clearly shown immediately, as they are critical resources that a company uses to analyze how they are doing overall in the marketplace. An example of this is that when you put more money towards marketing, most people would assume that if you get more sales, it must be working, so in most companies’ structure, that means to pump more money into something that they know works. This is a laziness trap, as most companies will stay surface level and focus only on what they are good at, and instead of innovating and deciding that our resources might be wise to be spent elsewhere, they are stuck in a fixed mindset. Another reason that an organization might allocate more towards product design or marketing is that recruitment and selection, isnt the focus due to the future potential risk. An example of this is that potentially not investing in good employees might cost more money to the company overall in the far-future which displays characteristics of the cost argument. If the hires might or might not cost more for the company in the long-run, it is a risk that more companies are willing to take due to the immediate benefits that pumping money into the marketing department might show through company analytics.

Some potential strengths and weaknesses of an orginizions decision to prioritize recurimtent and selection start with the strength of not having to go through a lengthy and expensive recruitment process to find the perfect employees, and can hire and fire employees quicker than if they took their time with selection. A weakness is that the lost time of correcting a bad employee might not be worth the same cost as hiring someone without the proper criteria. Overall there are many strengths and weakness but as we progress through the term, the weakness will became far more apparent as focusing on other departments might not be the best for the company in the long run!

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