Chapters Two and Three Foundations of Recruitment and Selection
Module Two
Foundations of
Recruitment and Selection I:
Measurement, Reliability, and Validity
Readings: Chapter Two
Chapter Two Objectives
After reading this chapter, you should understand all of the following:
Understand the basic components that make up a traditional personnel selection model.
Explain the concepts of reliability and validity.
Recognize the importance and necessity of establishing the reliability and validity of
measures used in personnel selection.
Identify common strategies that are used to provide evidence on the reliability and validity
of measures used in personnel selection.
Discuss the requirement for measures used in personnel selection to evaluate applicants
fairly and in an unbiased fashion.
Describe the practical steps needed to develop a legally defensible selection system.
Exercises
1. Review the Table 2.1 Recruitment and Selection Today: Human Resources
Management Science Versus Practice in Selection on page 34.
2. Review Recruitment and Selection Notebook 2.3: Practical Steps to Ensure Reliable
and Valid Selection on pages 58-59.
3. Complete Discussion Questions 1, 2, 4, 5, and 6 on page 60.
4. Make notes on the learning outcomes.
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Chapters Two and Three Foundations of Recruitment and Selection
FOUNDATIONS OF
RECRUITMENT AND SELECTION II:
LEGAL ISSUES
Readings: Chapter Three
Chapter Three Objectives
After reading this chapter, you should be able to understand all of the following:
Discuss the major legal issues affecting recruitment and selection. [Understand]
Identify how relevant human rights and employment equity legislation and policies affect
recruitment and selection in your organization. [Apply]
Understand and describe how legal concerns affect the practice of recruitment and
selection. [Understand, Apply]
Discuss the key legal concepts that have had an impact on recruitment and selection in
Canada. [Understand, Evaluate]
Apply the basic concepts and principles discussed in the chapter to the development of
recruitment and selection systems that meet legal requirements.
Exercises
1. Review each of the following tables:
a. Table 3.1 Prohibited Grounds of Employment Discrimination in Canadian Jurisdictions
on pages 71-72;
b. Table 3.2 Developing and Implementing an Employment Equity Plan on page 76;
c. Table 3.3 Guidelines to Screening and Selection in Employment on pages 85-87;
d. Table 3.5 Practices for Nondiscriminatory Recruiting on page 103; and
e. Table 3.6 Practices that Promote Positive Recruiting Perceptions on page 104.
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Chapters Two and Three Foundations of Recruitment and Selection
Module Three
Foundations of
Recruitment and Selection II:
Legal Issues
Readings: Chapter Three
Chapter Three Objectives
After reading this chapter, you should be able to understand all of the following:
Discuss the major legal issues affecting recruitment and selection. [Understand]
Identify how relevant human rights and employment equity legislation and policies affect
recruitment and selection in your organization. [Apply]
Understand and describe how legal concerns affect the practice of recruitment and
selection. [Understand, Apply]
Discuss the key legal concepts that have had an impact on recruitment and selection in
Canada. [Understand, Evaluate]
Apply the basic concepts and principles discussed in the chapter to the development of
recruitment and selection systems that meet legal requirements.
Exercises
1. Review each of the following tables:
f. Table 3.1 Prohibited Grounds of Employment Discrimination in Canadian Jurisdictions
on pages 71-72;
g. Table 3.2 Developing and Implementing an Employment Equity Plan on page 76;
h. Table 3.3 Guidelines to Screening and Selection in Employment on pages 85-87;
i. Table 3.5 Practices for Nondiscriminatory Recruiting on page 103; and
Table 3.6 Practices that Promote Positive Recruiting Perceptions on page 1
