Q$3.$ Managers are proactively improving the employee selection process with various

strategies that will ideally enhance corporate success. Some of these strategies focus on

improving the quality of the individuals who apply for work, as well as those individuals

who are actually hired into the organization. Other strategies target the selection process

itself and seek to improve the various activities involved in proper hiring. The overriding

theme of these efforts is that the selection function is a key component of an organization$$s

strategy because the process ideally provides highly motivated and qualified employees who

can ultimately impact the financial and operational well$-$being of a company.

Affinity a greeting card and gift company is one company that emphasizes selection. It

recently developed a recruiting metric called $$staffing index$$ that enables management to

track the degree to which newly hired employees are performing as expected on the job. A

series of evaluations are conducted over time, and scores are compared to obtain a

longitudinal perspective on the quality of the hiring decisions.

Syntex, a prominent health company is another organization that has improved its selection

activities with proper strategic planning and execution. The company$$s vice president of

recruitment services decided to modify hiring procedures within the organization by splitting

job candidates into two basic groups. The first group of individuals was comprised of highlevel professionals who would be recruited by internal staffing specialists, while the second

group included various staff and line personnel who would be acquired with outsourcing

contacts. This $$two pronged$$ strategy enabled the company to save money through

increased control and efficiency.

These various strategic selection approach

a$)$ Make a comparative analysis of the two selection strategies used by the organizations

discussed in the case.