Question

A service-based organization has adopted an expansionist strategy. It has taken on a number of big contracts from clients and is on a tight schedule to supply services by the deadlines promised. Which of the following statements, if true, will result in the staffing goals being best aligned to the organizational strategy?A) Time taken to fill a position should be tracked for each recruiting source and the fastest possible source should be utilized.B) Staffing should be done keeping in mind the costly training necessary for the job and only the best qualified applicants should be hand-picked.C) Aggressive staffing should be done indiscriminately as a long training period guarantees that the applicants know how to do the job.D) Compensation offered should be kept higher than the average market rate so that the maximum number of applicants is attracted

Answer 1

The answer is: A) Time taken to fill a position should be tracked for each recruiting source and the fastest possible source should be utilized.

Step-by-step explanation:

Apparently business is doing well for this organization, at least its sales force is doing very well. It has taken several big contracts even though it doesn't have enough personnel to fulfill them.

I like to call this type of situations an expansion crisis, you have done so well that you have too much work to do but too few people to do the work. At this point the company must hire people fast and it has to use the fastest possible hiring source it can find. For example, most companies use the internet nowadays but there may exist some potential employees' database that the company can use or recruitment firms.