1st Edition
Essentials of Employee Recruitment Individual and Organizational Perspectives
This book provides an insightful and comprehensive summary of the field of employee recruitment. Written from a scientific evidence-based perspective, and with contributions from global experts, it reviews the relevant research in the various areas of recruitment, considers the most pressing current issues in studying recruitment topics, and designs future research agendas for the field.
Organized into four sections, the text begins by presenting an overview of the study of recruitment, before moving on to demonstrate effective ways of attracting talent, covering methodology, practices, and organizational characteristics. The third section focuses on recruiting specific populations, including women, ethnic and racial minorities, college students, and employed job seekers. This book concludes by providing practical perspectives, with chapters describing how the applicant population is changing, how applicants interact with people and technology during recruitment, the interaction of applicant and organizational political ideology, and offering insights on how to design recruitment programs today and in the future.
A foundational resource on employee recruitment, this is the ideal text for scholars and graduate students in industrial and organizational psychology and human resource management. It will also interest practitioners working in the area, along with executive and line managers tasked with responsibility for talent management.
1. Essentials of Employee Recruitment: Individual and Organizational Perspectives—An Introductory Chapter
Jerel E. Slaughter and David G. Allen
Section 1. The Study of Recruitment
2. A History of Recruitment Research
James A. Breaugh
3. Designing and Conducting Recruitment Research Using the Recruitment Research Design Model
Alan M. Saks
4. A Strategic Recruiting System Model for Integrating Human Capital Resources to Solve Strategic Organizational Challenges
Anthony J. Nyberg, Greg Reilly, and Ormonde R. Cragun
Section 2. Attracting Talent
5. Employer Branding in Employee Recruitment: Marketing the Job and Organization to Potential Talent
Kang Yang Trevor Yu, Clara Wen Lin Soo, and Sitong Yu
6. Recruiting through Employee Referrals
Jenna R. Pieper, Jessica M. Greenwald, and Steven D. Schlachter
7. Applicant Reactions to Organizational Recruitment Processes
Talya N. Bauer, Donald M. Truxillo, Julie M. McCarthy, and Berrin Erdogan
Section 3. Recruiting Specific Populations
8. Navigating Job Search as a College Student: What We Know and Where Scholars, Job Seekers, and Recruiters Need to Go
Allison S. Gabriel, Nitya Chawla, and Kelly P. Gabriel
9. Recruiting Employed Job Candidates
Wendy R. Boswell, Stephanie C. Payne, and Claire E. Bowman-Callaway
10. Recruiting Women in the Workplace: A Review of Empirical Research
Connie R. Wanberg, Youjeong Song, and Sophia Miri Yoo
11. Targeted Recruitment of Racial-Ethnic Minorities: A Research Review
Patrick F. McKay
12. All Around the World: Understanding International Recruiting Across Countries and Cultures
Haley M. Woznyj, Alexandra M. Dunn, Luke Scherer, and Noah Adcock-Howeth
13. Candidate Experiences with Technology and People
Lynn A. McFarland, Melanie M. Ward, and William J. Shepherd
Section 4. Practical Perspectives
14. Recruitment in the Modern Context
Jazmin Argueta-Rivera, Yaojia Rebecca Chen, Tisnue Jean-Baptiste M.S., Chase Siner, and Mikki Hebl
15. Recruiting in a Politically Divided Age
Jerel Slaughter, Zixu Zhang, and Philip L. Roth
16. Designing Recruitment Programs for Impact
Wayne F. Cascio and Kyle Ehrhardt
17. The Future of Recruitment and the Role of Technology
Peter Cappelli and Shun Yiu
18. Key Trends and Future Research Directions in Recruitment Research, According to AI (Sort of)
David G. Allen and Jerel E. Slaughter
Biography
Jerel E. Slaughter, Ph.D., is Eller Professor of Management in the Department of Management and Organizations at the University of Arizona and co-Chief I-O Psychologist at Safer Hire. He teaches and conducts research in the areas of employee recruitment and selection, leadership, and ethics.
David G. Allen, Ph.D., is Luther Henderson University Chair in Management and Leadership and also Senior Associate Dean at the TCU Neeley School of Business, Distinguished Research Environment Professor at Warwick Business School in the UK, and former Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Management.
“Just in time, Essentials of Employee Recruitment comprehensively reviews the most recent research on the topic. This book is full of expert authors who tackle the traditional topics (employer branding and applicant reactions) as well as newer ones (artificial intelligence, recruitment chatbots, political ideology, social media, and applicant neurodiversity). The book features online appendices with a full listing of the measures used for research in each of the core areas, saving readers hours of detective work spent tracking down measures.”
Daniel M. Cable, Professor of Organizational Behaviour, London Business School, UK
“This research-based book on the science and practice of recruitment could not be more timely. Low unemployment rates and changing societal and workplace norms have given many job seekers considerable leverage vis a vis employers. Moreover, as several authors in this edited volume note, employers need to be more strategic in recruiting, to present more consistent recruitment experiences to their applicants, and to make use of new recruitment methods and technologies. At the same time, in order to better help employers, researchers need to conduct more multi-stage, multi-organization, and multi-practice studies using varied designs and multiple levels of analysis. This book presents the best recruitment research available to employers and clear guidelines for researchers on how to conduct more useful and impactful research. I highly recommend it.”
Sara Rynes, Emeritus Professor of Management, University of Iowa, USA
