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Business Studies · 2024 · 4 marks
CBSE 2024 · Region 2 · Set 3 · Q26
(a) Explain ‘Promotions' and 'Transfers' as internal sources of recruitment.
(a)
Explain ‘Promotions' and 'Transfers' as internal sources of
recruitment.
OR
(b)
State any four limitations of internal sources of recruitment.
Marking-scheme solution
(a)
Internal sources of recruitment:
Promotions-
Promotion is a vertical shifting of an employee to a higher position
carrying higher responsibility, facilities, status and pay.
It helps to improve the motivation, loyalty and satisfaction level of
employees.
Transfers-
It means horizontal movement/shifting of an employee from one
job to another, from one department to another without a
substantive change in the responsibility and status.
It helps to fill vacancies with employees from overstaffed
departments, helps to avoid termination and removes individual
problems and grievances.
Limitations of internal sources of recruitment are:
(i)
The scope for induction of fresh talent is reduced. Hence, complete
reliance on internal recruitment involves danger of ‘inbreeding’ by
stopping ‘infusion of new blood’ into the organization
(ii)
The employees may become lethargic if they are sure of time bound
promotions
(iii)
A new enterprise cannot use internal sources of recruitment. No
organisation can fill all its vacancies from internal sources
(iv)
The spirit of competition among the employees may be hampered.
(v)
Frequent transfers of employees may often reduce the productivity of
the organization.
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