hr professionals and postmodernism

Running head : POSTMODERNISM AND HUMAN RESOURCE PROFESSIONALS

Postmodernism and Human Resource Professionals

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POSTMODERNISM AND HUMAN RESOURCE PROFESSIONALS

Human resource professionals implement postmodern principles by not confining themselves to the idea that the educational background of the job applicant will determine if the person is right for the job . Rather the HR professional will take into account a number of characteristics and qualifications as well as skills that the applicant possesses . As postmodern thought would suggest , there can be a number of factors and no

single determinant in approaching certain issues (Bartos , 1996 ,

br 311 . In screening job applicants , they will also try to look into other qualifications which bear the potential of being of good use to the position in certain circumstances . Since HR professionals are also tasked to find and contact job applicants , they will not simply rely on the classical ways of finding and contacting possible candidates Instead , they will try a variety of means , even to the extent of appearing absurd in the eyes of others who know little about the task of HR professionals

Since postmodern thought suggests that there is no such thing as a single authority that should be relied upon in to understand things (Cole , Hill Rikowski , 1997 , the HR professional will even go to the extent of deferring to the demands of his or her superiors with regard to the screening process of the applicants if only to select the best candidate in the list . Interestingly...