Application: Organizational Fit
Selecting and hiring a new employee involves
comparing many candidates’ skills and experience. However, the candidate with
the strongest abilities and credentials is not always the best person for the
job; a candidate’s personality and character traits are also very important to
job success. A candidate might look great on paper, but once you meet him or
her you might notice personal habits or traits and other characteristics that
significantly detract from the candidate’s suitability for the job. Assessing a
candidate’s organizational fit, or how well the candidate matches an
organization’s work environment and dynamics, can be a useful technique in
hiring new employees.
In this week’s Application, you will examine the use
of organizational fit in selecting candidates to fill open job positions. You
will explore the costs and benefits of this selection strategy as well as the
associated legal and regulatory concerns.
To prepare for this Application Assignment:
Review Chapter 11 in the
course text and identify how HR personnel can use the information that
department managers can provide to determine organizational culture and
organizational fit.
Read Chapter 13 in the
course text, focusing on the legal issues interviewers must consider when
asking questions and selecting candidates.
Read the articles
“Organizational Fit Is Key to Job Success” and “Performance
Management for Inclusion.” How is organizational fit relevant to a
candidate’s potential success with an organization? How do the principles of
organizational fit relate to inclusion and diversity?
Review the websites for
the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the Americans with
Disabilities Act (ADA). How do government regulations affect the interviewing
and selection process?
To complete this Application Assignment, write a 2-
to 3-page paper analyzing the concept of organizational fit as it applies to
the job interviewer and interviewee. Address the following:
Describe two potential
advantages and disadvantages to recruiting and selecting applicants based on
organizational fit and organizational culture.
Discuss scenarios in
which you think this type of recruitment and selection is appropriate and/or
inappropriate. Defend your position with support from the article and other
resources from the Walden library.
Comment on how you might
determine the organizational fit of a candidate just from a resume and/or
portfolio. Consider how a candidate’s personality could be evident in such
documents. What are potential problems with making character judgments based
only on a piece of paper?
Explain how government
regulations might affect the ways an interviewer could use the principle of
organizational fit in the selection process.
Support your work with specific citations from this
week’s Learning Resources and additional scholarly sources as appropriate.
Refer to the Essential
Guide to APA Style for Walden Students to ensure that
your in-text citations and reference list are correct.
Please put it in apa format citation and if you
used a page in the book let me know.
The name of the book is Human Resource Management
in Healthcare principle and pratice 2ND 14
Author(s)Fallon
Edition/Copyright2ND 14PublisherJones &
Bartlett PublishersTypePaperbackISBN-101-449bogus6-8883-7ISBN-13978-1bogus-4496-8883-7please put it in apa format citation Thank you.
