EMPLOYEE SELECTION AND RECRUITMENT IN SRI LANKAN CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY

The construction industry has a direct or indirect impact on any economic growth and their development. As a need of this era of globalization, every construction organization has to compete with the global economy for their success and survival. The performances of workers are directly influenced on the success of a business or an organization. Thus, recruitment and selection of employees has become one of the significant factors that employers should be concerned about. Every organization or a business has their own requirements when selecting employees. Selection process is conducted by managers or any other and uses specific tools to choose a person or persons who like to succeed in the job. Recruitment and selection of employees is a main activity of human resource management. Within the organization, there are designated specialists or human resource managers to select, acquire the workers, develop and reward them. Storey, (1995) has implied that human resources provide the compe...

Recruitment defined as the process of attracting future employees and encouraging them to apply for a particular position in an organization.  Armstrong & Taylor   has cited that recruitment is about understanding every activity in relation to the position and directed the potential employees.  This process conducts through the legal and regulatory framework. Methods of recruitment should be legal and activities must contribute to achieve goals, reflect organizational brand and values whilst also being efficient and cost effective (Foot & Hook, 2008).   Recruitment is important to create a talent pool of potential candidates at minimum cost. It helps to increase the effectiveness of the selection process by decreasing the non-qualified applicants. Also it contributes to increasing individual effectiveness of various recruiting techniques and for all the types of job applicants in organization. The methods of recruitment have been categorized into two headings...

Throughout the past decades economy of Sri Lanka has booms and busts due to different reasons such as war and Government changers (Weddikkara and Devapriya, 2000). Silva (2018), cited that after the 30 years of war government and private sector (local and foreign) allocate bulk of investments to the development of Sri Lanka in past years and prepared development plans for the future. Also Halwatura (2015) implies that Construction projects are the most important national assets plans method in Sri Lanka. According to Rameezdeen (2006), Sri Lankan Construction industry contributing 6-7% of GDP throughout the past decade and due to the Sri Lankan construction industry is a labor incentive industry, which offers employment to 4-5% of the labor force within the country. Due to this vast scale of construction development it’s occurring higher demand on human resources in the industry. A proper employee management helps employees to perform at their best and to achieve business goals ( ...