Claim: Recruitment and selection is a company’s most important function.
Counterpoint: The most important function of a company is to create value to a customer; without a paying customer there is no business.
Organizations deicide to allocate more resources towards marketing and product design rather than using the same resources to do a great job in employee recruitment and selection for many reasons. One reason is that marketing and product design is an observable artifact that customers and managers can observe. They can also observe sales data after marketing a new product, and they can get feedback from customers on new products. Organizations that focus more on building a better product and developing more efficient processes will be better in the long run.
A strength of an organization not prioritizing recruitment and selection is that they can focus on the business by creating value for customers. If a company spends all of their time recruiting and selecting employees they can lose sight of the overall goal of the business. However, a weakness to focusing on other business activities besides recruitment and selection is cost. The cost of hiring a person that does not do a good job can result in millions of dollars for just ten workers hired. For example, the failed cost for a hire can be around $2 Million dollars because you have to account for paying the employee, using resources to search for the employee, and lost business because of less workers. Also, a bad employee that creates a lot of mistakes will force managers to correct those mistakes rather than adding more value to the business.
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I like your counter argument that the most important factor in a business is to make sure that your company is creating value in it’s products to keep customers coming back and to attract new ones. I would say this is the most realistic other function of a company that could be argued to be the most important because without value in your product the company will fail to make money and there obviously would no employees to even recruit and select if a company doesn’t exist. To add to your point about better products making companies do better in the long run I believe that this can tie into employee recruitment and selection because when a company is making a larger profit it allows them a larger budget to put towards employee recruitment so they can fix any mistakes from the past and make their company even more profitable. Overall great job on your post!