ASSESSMENT OF RECRUITMENT AND SELECTION PRACTICES AND CHALLENGES AT BISRAT FM 101.1 RADIO STATION

Abstract

Recruitment and selection are the critical function of Human Resource Management (HRM) that ensures the acquisition of best employees that enhance the competiveness of an organization. The objectives of the study includes to examine the current recruitment and selection practices adopted at Bisrat fm 101.1 radio station, to identify gaps in recruitment and selection, to assess the ways of staff recruitment and selection improvement and to identify challenges in the recruitment and selection at Bisrat fm 101.1 radio station. To achieve the objective of this study and for the sake of accessing better quality data all 85 permanent staff were selected for the study. Census survey method was used. Descriptive analysis was adopted for the study involving both qualitative and quantitative methods/approaches in order to achieve the research objectives and to answer research questions to distribute 80 questionnaires to employees of radio station where all were filled and returned and the remaining 5, interview was also conducted with management bodies. Specifically, the techniques instruments used to gather data was Likert scale questionnaire were developed and manual analysis was carried out for qualitative aspects. Descriptive statistics such as frequencies and percentages were used to analyze the data. With this research method, major findings related to the human resource management department were, the organization doesn’t follow clear policy and procedures, and the company doesn’t have pure human resource department and lack of management attention. Recruitment and selection process are not linked with human resource planning and low coordination with departments. The study recommended that, recruitment and selection practices of the organization needs development clear policy and procedure and to realized better human resource management, the company also needs to link their recruitment and selection practice with HRP. The organization shall adopt formal recruitment and selection in a better way to attract competent candidates by using internally and externally sources and methods, the radio station should set the management objective to established in place policy or strategy that was improved and help recruit and select the right employees for the right job at the right time with right cost in the right position to strive towards for the achievement of organizational goal and objective.