Decision Making Approach to Employee Selection

Abstract

Strategic Human Resource Management is focused on the human capital as a strategic resource in achieving sustainable competitive advantage. Recruitment and selection may just be a stage in the HR function for an organization, but the potential significance of manifestation on an organization's performance, effectiveness and productivity is undeniable. Performance is clearly depicted as dependent upon selection, appraisal, rewards and development, in achieving person-job-organization fit (PJO Fit). The purpose of this research is to examine the approaches to selection or assessment methods being employed by companies in Malaysia, specifically among multi-national companies and small medium enterprises as a basis in their decision-making process. The findings of this research suggest that the majority of Malaysian organizations neither wholeheartedly accept nor reject an analytic approach but favors a hybridization approach to selection where there is a blending of both analytic and intuitive model which provides an acceptably holistic approach in their hiring judgment.