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Title HISTORICAL ANALYSIS OF RECRUITMENT PRACTICES IN TEXTILE INDUSTRY OF PAKISTAN

Author(s) Ahsan Ejaz

Abstract This research examines the evolution of recruitment practices in textile industry of Pakistan. Specifically this research intends to bring to the fore the recruitment practices within realm of centralized structure. This is an ethnographic study following based on single case method. Data were collected through semi structured interviews, company manuals and Unobtrusive observations. Data includes HR staff‟s views about the recruitment practices of the firm historically and presently and some of top manager‟s views about the evolution of recruitment practices in a large size textile firm in Faisalabad. A total of nine semi structured interviews were conducted with HR staff including a long in depth discussion with HR heads of the firms. The findings from this study shows that recruitment practices evolve in large organizations where merit based system replaced the reference based recruitment, the underline study organization developed HR departments about a decade before and later on centralized recruitment center was established which controls all recruitment of all its offices situated in different provinces and cities. It also established an assessment center and recruitment wing for new candidates where complete screening is being performed including tests, series of interviews and psychological testing etc. Majority of organizations in this industry have hierarchal structure came from institutionalization. Recruitment sources also evolved, previously used sources like advertisement in newspapers, in educational institutes and words of mouth have been changed to web based. Organization has been using information technology; they developed their websites, web portal and pages on social media which have been using for advertisement in recruitment. So far it can be concluded that although the firms have established HR departments but due to centralization it not had been authorized to perform recruitment and other HR functions except some large groups.

Type Thesis/Dissertation MS

Faculty Management Sciences

Department Management Sciences

Language English

Publication Date 2019-06-20

Subject HRM

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