Building and Retaining Human Capital Through the Assignment Process

Abstract

This report summarizes the findings of a research study on the effects of going beyond short-term candidate performance potential focus and adding an individual career development focused criteria to the promotion and transfer decision process. The empirical results support that internal selection decisions that incorporate both criteria are seen as more effective in terms of using fairer procedures and selecting the right candidates and are associated with more positive attitude outcomes including organizational commitment (which is strongly related to employee retention). The active involvement of the HR department in partnership with the hiring unit in the decision process contributed to achieving broader organizational and individual focused criteria and other indices of decision effectiveness.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 24, 2002
Accession Number
ADA408703

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  • Prince J. Bruce

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  • Kansas State University

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  • Human Systems

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