Public Administrative || Paper 1 || Personnel Admiinstration

Importance of HRD

1.   To develop the country

2.   Empower people

3.   Promote entrepreneurship

4.   Generation of social capital

Recruitment Process

1.   Positive and negative forms

2.   Forms – Cadet; General mental ability; expertise; lateral entry system;

3.   Organization goals > Personnel Policy >  Recruitment Policy > Job requisition > Preparing application form > Advertisement > Scrutiny of applications > Rational procedure to shortlist > Selection (Tests, Activities, Interview) > Appointment > Communication > Probation > Final Appointment.

Training Types

1.   Pre-entry – e.g. Rajasthan Secretariat

2.   On entry – Orientation training; Induction training;

3.   Post-entry – Retraining; Refresher; Cyclic; Vestibule; Departmental.

4.   Methods – by experience; by lectures; by conference method; case study; T-group; Incidence method; Role-playing.

Classification

1.   Rank Classification aka Rank in the man – India, UK, France, Japan etc.

2.   Position Classification aka Rank in the job – US, South Korea, Philippines.

Concept of Promotion

1.   Either Merit or Seniority Principle.

2.   There is no fundamental right to promotion.

3.   Peter’s Principle – Solutions – Lateral Arabesque; Creative incompetence; High pay; Purcussive sublimation;

4.   Ways of testing promotional merit – Production records; Graph Scale ratings ( or more advanced one called B.A.R.S) and Personality Inventory System (e.g. Jackson PIS)