Does Selection Mechanism for Temporary Employees in Public Sector Universities affect Right Selection?

Introduction

The world is changing rapidly and universities are planning dominant role where the existing operating environment of these higher educational institutions will not be the same due to the global pressure (Gredgebuure & Schoen (2014). Universities play a key role in the socio economic development by empowering the fresh blood with the concurrent knowledge, skills and abilities needed by all sorts of organizations across the globe. The relationship between academia and development had always been coexisting since their journey in this universe. This has been found during the different excavations by the archaeologists in different past well developed civilizations across the globe. The point is that schools, colleges and universities play a basic role in the development of all types of social and economic development and today the mankind is approaching the faraway stars and planets due to the developments in education that actually are taking place in these academic institutions, where teachers and researchers are regularly working on theory development and practices to develop the youth and provide trainings to develop the skills among the people working under different capacities, which also help the university ranking which (Goodall, 2009) highlighted that world best universities in the ranking are lead by the top well reputed scholars of those respective universities. These people who actually are running the top academia through knowledge generation and sharing for the development are being selected through different processes in which the main focus is to select the best employee for working in the long run for these set ups as human resource management researchers have argued that the survival and success of an organization lies on how effective the practices of recruitment and selection are taking place (Ofori & Aryeetey, 2011).

Carless (2007) argued that if the recruitment process will not be effective to bring enough pool or applications the right selection becomes very difficult for any specific job. The researches in the field of human resource researchers have identified that recruitment and selection is the first and most pivotal stage among all other organizational functions and regarding the educational organizations this had always been remained an issue due to lack of a set standardized methodology of attracting, screening and finding a right person (Pounder, 1996). This we can also refer a very sensitive stage because besides multiple aspects, the chances of type I and type II errors are always there, that needs special attention to avoid the institutional loss ultimately. Earlier studies regarding the effective recruitment have been found influenced by the top executives of these respective universities (Nabi at al., 2014) while as this study focus purely internal selection mechanism apart from any external influence with a special attention on the promotion of employees and gender selection as well, which have not been previously studied in this region particularly.