Unit 2 HR Management-Personnel Issues

Running head : Human resource management- personnel issues

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21st July 2010

INTRODUCTION

In this assignment , I am going to address the employment applicant testing for a company specialized in sales and marketing . Sales and marketing is a very vibrant sector in the economy and has a very big clientele and employee base . The companies ' recruitment exercises have large turnouts and require very many considerations to make in the tests . Customers are to be addressed in polite , communicative methods In addition , personal interests like interaction and socializing

are crucial . Cognitive abilities , personality and interests of the person and work sampling are the best methods of choosing a candidate (Mathis Jackson , 2008

DISCUSSION

Sales and marketing requires a range of mental abilities . Although people may have the required academic qualification , a wide variance exists psychologically in each one of them . Good information reception application of knowledge acquired in studies and in life situations and experiences helps very much in this line of work . The company therefore needs to develop a method that puts the mental ability of the interviewee at test . Lowering the self-worth should be avoided to give the test an ethical background . I would recommend that the company use application questions to see how well the person can integrate their abilities in situations encountered . Legally the test should not discriminate basis of age , race , country of origin and disability (S I O br

Inc , 2003

Interaction takes the largest time in the job . Conflicts of interests and social...