Human Resources Management models for recruitment of faculty members: A critical review

Soleiman Ahmady¹, Farin Tatari^2*, ShahramYazdani³ and Seyed Ali Hosseini⁴

¹Department of Medical Education, School of Medical Education. Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran ²Department of  Occupational Therapy, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran Corresponding Author's Email: farintatari@yahoo.com

DOI : http://dx.doi.org/10.13005/bbra/2049

ABSTRACT: Nowadays, the growth and development of organizations depend on real utilization of human resources, human resources is considered the organization's most important asset and their effective management is the key to the success of the organization. In higher educational system, faculty members are one of the main assets and the success of organizations is due to the desired efficiency of them. Effective search, and recruitment of faculty members are a critical matter for the university and should be managed in such a way that the right people are tenured as faculty members. In this study a critical review is used as an effective methodology for conceptual originality. Related words were selected and extensive and structured search of texts has been done. 250 articles and text were retrieved. Then purposive sampling was conducted in order to screen the texts and articles follow by three phases: (A) the preliminary phase or title screening base on that the title of texts should be related to the faculty members’recruit management. (B) The secondary phase was performed according to a summary and introduction of text study. (C) and in the tertiary screening  phase: articles and texts were studied briefly and related articles were prioritized based on conceptual and textual richness,according to the research subject, and irrelevant articles were excluded from the study.  Full and in-depth study of the most richness papers was begun. 50 articles were analyzed and synthesized and finally the study product was presented in the form of a model. The research findings showed that by using a13-step systematic process of selection and recruitment, having a proactive, capable and versatile recruitment committee, setting a description of the position based on merit and competency, using new and diverse applicant tracking methods, advertising based on competency , evaluating applicants with new Competency-based and value-based interviews methods and adopting competency-based recruitment model, can make the achievement and recruit of worthy and capable forces in the university possible.

KEYWORDS: Human Resource Management (HRM) , faculty member,  recruitment, search,critical review

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