Business A-Level
internal and external recruitment
What internal and external recruitment means in Business A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of internal and external recruitment
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Reference: AQA
Recruiting internally is cheaper, faster and motivating because it shows a route upward, while an outside appointment brings ideas the firm does not have.
Topics that use internal and external recruitment
- Making human resource decisions: improving organisational design and managing the human resource flow (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- delayering
- functional grouping
- human resource plan
- Kotter and Schlesinger
- Lewin
- matrix working
- product divisions
- redeployment
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