Responsibility for new staff in colleges … 2

Abstract

Selection policy and procedure. The first point here is the policy on internal promotion versus external recruitment. In the postwar conditions of full employment and a welfare state there has been a significant movement in the business world towards internal promotion as distinct from external selection. On the grounds of hard economics it is often found cheaper to promote an existing servant than it is to search the market and have to pay far more than you intended for somebody of uncertain qualities from outside. On social grounds it is also recognised as better to encourage deserving internal candidates than to impose external personnel on a community which is working together reasonably happily and satisfactorily. Recourse to external candidates is normally to be preferred only when a real shake‐up and warning to existing staff is intended or where some new development is afoot and where none of the existing staff has had the appropriate experience.

Citation

ARMSTRONG, B. (1966), "Responsibility for new staff in colleges … 2", Education + Training, Vol. 8 No. 1, pp. 16-18. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb015665