1 A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF RECRUITMENT & SELECTION PROCESS AT NTPC LTD. Submitted forPartial fulfillment of the requirement for the award of the degree ofMaster o Business Administratio n Guru Jambeshwar University, HisarResearch Supervisor : Submitted By : GARIMA BAKSHI NIWAS KUMAR Sr. Lecturer Roll No. : 07061220029 MBA 4 th Sem. Session : 2007-2009 STUDY CENTRE SADIT INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT & TECHNOLOGY LTD. C-28, ACHARAY NIKETAN, MAYOR VIHAR, PHASE – I, DELHI SUBMITTED TO : DIRECTOR OF DISTANCE EDUCATION GURU JAMBESHWAR UNIVERSITY, HISAR, HARYANA (INDIA)
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7/29/2019 A Critical Analysis of Recruitment & Selection Process at Ntpc Ltd_2011
Business scenarios are changing from time to time. Earlier the situations were different, jobs were available but the people to work were few. The trend of forefathers working inthe same organization was common. The new age of economy has emerged with itsattendant paradigm shift in relation to the human capital, in terms of its acquisition,utilization, development and retention.
Today HR is expected to comprehend, conceptualize, innovate, implement and sustainrelevant strategies and contribute effectively towards giving the company its winningedge. Thus it is the need of the hour for strategizing and putting in place a robustmechanism for attracting top talents which becomes vital for the company’s survival andgrowth.
The project aims to study various aspects of the recruitment and selection process of the company and to suggest the strategy for attracting the talent with thought, feelingand behavior for growth and development of the company.
The well-being of an organization is linked to the well being of its employees.Employees determine whether the company flourishes or fails. If efforts andinvestments are made in the direction of employee’s professional welfare, it results in aWin-Win situation resulting in the happiness of the employees, the customers and thecompany.
Organization requires a number of things to be effective:
Physical resources including the manufacturing facilities and equipment, to produce aproduct or service.
Financial resources including equity, leverage and retained earnings.
Marketing capabilities to connect whatever products or services are created withcustomers.
Human resources, including the experience, skills, knowledge, judgment and creativitybelonging to the organization along with the means of the organization, structuring andrewarding these capabilities.
While all these are important to organizational effectiveness, the factor that is mostlikely to provide potential competitive advantage is human resources and itsmanagement. The production technology, financing and customer connections can allbe copied. The basics of managing people can also be copied, but the most effectiveorganizations find unique ways to attract retain and motivate employees-a strategy thatis hard to imitate.
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“Enabling the employees to be a family of commited world class professionals
making NTPC a learning Organization”.
NTPC believes in achieing organizational excellence through Human Resources and
follow “People First” approach to leverage the potentioal of its 23,500 employees to
fulfill its business plans. Human Resources Function has fomulated an integrated HR
strategy, which rests on these building blocks of HR viz. Competence Building,
Commitment Building and System Builing. All HR intiavtes are undertaken within this
broad framework to actulize the HR Vision of “enabling the employees to be a family
of committed world class professionls making NTPC a learning organization.”
To install talent and groom them into a dedicated cadre of power professionals
“Executive Trainee” Scheme was introduced in the year 1977 for recruitment in the
disciplines of Machnical, Electrical, Civil, Control and Instrumentation and now
encompasses into into its wide ambit Computer Science, Chemestry, HR and Finance
disciplanes also. Besides a comprehensive one-year training comprising theoritical
inputs as well as on-the-job training, the new recruits are also attached with senior
executives under a systematic and formal “Mentoring System” of the company to
integrate them into the work cultue of the company.
NTPC has been ranked fifth among the top ten “Best companies to work for in
India” by Mercer HR Consulting –Business Today Survey 2006. This is the third
consctive year that NTPC has appeared in this prestigious list. NTPC is also the only
PSU among the top ten companies. The survey was conducted on the basis of four attributes such as HR Matrics, HR Processes and policy, Internaly Employee Perception
& Stake holder Perception & Stake holder Perception on a weighted scale to arrive at a
total score for each company surveyed.
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In this information age, the importance of human capital and human assets cannot be
ignored; rather it is that line of business that could lead any organization to attain
hieghts. This is the factor that makes diffierence between one organization and another.
Getting the right person at the right place and retaining him is the main area of concern
in today’s corporate world. Hence, that the emphasis is being laid to device policies and
programmes in such a manner that it leads to retention of the desired manpower and
thus contributes towards organizational development.
Each organization is now thriving to attain the best person i.e. the knowledgeable
worker and leverage their wisdom towards the achievement of the organizational
objective. Certain great leaders who have made their mark in corporate world by their actions say that every organiztion can acquire the same machinery, the same
infrastructure etc. but what makes the difference in one organization to another is the
manpower it posses which cannot be copied down.
Considering the aspect of sourcing, no organization should ever think that once it has
acquired the best talent and created favourable conditions to retain them, they would
not require going in for sourcing activities. Hence this should be kept in mind that
sourcing is a continuous process, an outgoing one and will have its existance till the
organization functions.
The talent that we have acquired and retained its sourcing only. Unless and until a
person is sourced from outside, how will the organzation get the best. To have the best
it is essential to aquire it from outside. There has been tremendous change in the
technology and for the organization to survive in this changing scenario; it has become
very essential that it should keep up with the pace with the changes.
After having determined the number and kind identification of sources of recruitment
and finding suitable candidates for employment. Both internal and external sources of
manpower are used depending upon the types of personnel needed.
Every company has to rcruit sufficient number of employees in order to maintain its
manpower recruitments. The responsibility of appointing the staff lies with the Personnel
Manager or Recruiting Officer or Selection Committee.
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Recruitment & Selection is one of the basic functions of the Personnel Department.
Recruitment process involves the following steps: -
Human Resource Planning
Developing Sources Of Potential Employees
Deciding Source Of Recruitment
Selection And Placement
SOURCES OF RECRUITMENT
Before an organization activity begins of recruiting applicants, it should consider the
most likely source of the type of employee it needs. Some companies try to developnew sources they have. These sources, accordingly, may be termed as internal and
external.
Recruitment process
Developing sources of potentioal employees
Internal sources External Sources
Promotion Recruitment at factory gate
Transfer Media advertisement
Recommendations Employment agencies
Educational institutes
Contractors
E-Recruitment
Unsolicited applications
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In all Divisions and Projects of the company, before the end of August everyyear, each Department will review the adequacy or otherwise of the available
manpower with the reference to its needs which depends largely on the skills,
abilities and commitment of the employees who constitute the most to the tasks
and targets and determine the additional requirements of manpower in qualitative
and quantitative terms for the immediately following financing year.
Based on the recruitments of additional manpower of the individual departments;
the detailed manpower plan for the financial year will be prepared jointly by the
planning and the personnel Departments for the Division as a whole givingspecific details of each new posts and justification therefore and this manpower
than containing details of expenditure involved will form a part of the overall
Manpower Budget of the Division.
The requirements of casual and other contingent staff will not form a part of the
Manpower Budget as the same will be shown only in terms of estimate of
expenditure to be incurred in respect thereof as a part of the Works Budget.
Annual manpower plans including the additional manpower requirements along
with all relevant details and estimated cost involved for all the divisions/projects
will be consolidated into an integrated company manpower plan which will form a
part of the annual budget to be submitted for approval of the board of directors.
JOB TITAL, JOB SPECIFICATIONS, ROLE OUTLINE AND PAY SCALES
Job specifications indicating the eligibility requirements in terms of minimum
educations, length, nature of quality of experience, upper age limit etc. and a
general outline of the role and the responsibilities will be laid down in respect of
each job title along with the pay scale or consolidated daily / monthly wage ratein which the posts in the category will be operated.
To ensure uniformity and consistency, job titles, job specifications and role
outlines together with the pay scale applicable in respect of all categories of
posts will be issued by the corporate center from time with the approval of the
Chairman and Managing Director.
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HR Department will issue the offer of appointment in the prescribed form in duplicate
and the contract of appointment will be completed on receipt of the letter of acceptance
along with the copy of offer duly signed by the candidate.
Based on the length of notice period, for release from the present employment as
indicated in the application form or during interview and depending on the urgency of
filling the vacant post, the offer of appointment will state the last date has been deemed
to have been withdrawn unless an extension of the last date has been granted by the
appointing authority prior to the expiry of the joining time as indicated in the offer
appointment.
JOINING FORMALITIES
Employees on the first appointment to the Company’s service will furnish to the HR
Department copies of documents and other details and particulars.
In case of recruitment to executive and supervisory posts, prescribed application blanks
will include a column for the candidates to give names of two references to whom, in the
event of selection of candidate, reference will be made in the prescribed form for
eliciting their view and opinions on the suitability of the candidate for employment in the
company.
On appointment of a person in the company, the District authority concerned will berequested to verify and report on the antecedents of the person in the prescribed
attestation form, in term of directives issued by the government from time to time in this
regard.
Provided, however, that such verification of antecedents may not be insisted upon in the
case of persons employed in the government /Semi- Govt. Organizations and public
Sector undertakings, immediately prior to the appointment in NTPC, Subject to the
condition that in the case of persons coming from Semi-Government Organizations and
Public Sector Undertakings, satisfactory evidence is made available in support of the
fact that due verification of antecedents was made at he time of their appointment to theSemi – Government Organization or Public Sector Undertaking.
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The recruitment cycle at NTPC begins with the release of advertisement in various
newspapers and n the Internet at NTPC, recruitment takes place both internally and
externally.
STEP 2- Inviting candidates
Internal recruitment takes place when selection is done amongst the employees of the
Organization. At NTPC, ex-employees i.e. people who have resigned can also apply.
The company also goes for campus and further (Executive Trainee) recruitment.
STEPS 3- Receiving applications from candidates
Once the advertisement has been released, the next step is the released; the next step
is the receipt of application from prospective candidates.
STEP 4 -Screening of applications by HR department
Screening of application form vis vis eligibility by HR Department follows this At this
stage, the documents, along with other details of the candidates are verified.
Candidates who do not fall within the eligibility criteria are disqualified.
STEP5-Screening of applications by respective department
Once the HR Department has done the screening of application forms the application
forms the applications are sent to the concerned department for further scrutiny.
STEP 6 -Interview Stage
If the ratio of post and suitable candidate is less than 1:5, then the candidates directly
enter the interview stage, but if the ratio is greater than 1:5, then the candidates appear
for a written test prior to interviews. This helps in further short – listing the candidates,the results of the written test are declared in 2-3weeks and depending on the number of
candidates, the interviews last between 1-3 days.
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Once the interview stage is over, the selection panel is made where in candidates who
have been finally selected are ranked according to the mark scored by them in the
interview, candidates are judged on various parameters on a scale on 10 points , the
candidates who scores the maximum is ranked the highest.
STEP 8- Sending the offer
Once the selection panel has been made, the offer letters are dispatched to the
candidates. They are given about a week’s time to send in their acceptance or rejection
of the offer to the company. If the candidate fails to do so, a reminder is sent to himasking him to submit the same falling, which the offer would be passed on to the next
candidate in the panel.
STEP 9 – Post offer queries and negotiations
Once the candidate has accepts the offer, the next stage deals with handling the
queries of the candidates and negotiating with him about the place of posting, grade,
pay scale etc.
STEP 10 –Medical Examination
After the queries have been dealt with and the candidate has finally decided to join the
organization, he/she undergoes a medical examination, which is compulsory for all the
candidates who join the organization. If the medical examination is found to be OK, and
the candidate joins the Organization, then he/she is sent for induction program then
sent either for training or direct on job. In case the medical examination shows the
candidate not OK then offer is made to the next candidate in the selection panel.
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Sampling is the process of selecting a sufficient number of elements from the population
so that a study of the sample and the understanding of its properties or characteristicswould make it possible for us to generalize such properties or characteristics to the
population element. In a sample survey, only part of the total population is approached
for data.
Characteristic for selection of the sample group
Employees from each department such as HR, FINACE, COMMERCIAL, IT,
CORPRATE PLANNING etc were selected for the survey.
Sample size
Samples were randomly selected and each of them responded. Sample consisted of
employees who are presently working in the company and associated with the company
for long period.
Research Tool and Questionnaire
The questionnaire used is a structured for the purpose of collecting primary data
in a survey. It is a series of written or verbal questions that are related to the
study of the objective for which the respondent provides answers.
Most of the questions asked were close ended, as they are quick to answer; the
respondents were employees who have very little time to spare from.
Most of the questions asked by the employees were at 4- point scale or
Dichotomous in nature.
It is said that a good questionnaire ends with a comment section that allows the
respondent to record any other issues not covered in the questionnaire. This is
one way of avoiding any frustration on the part of the repondent, as well as
allowing them to express any thoughts, questions or concerns they might have.
And so the questionnaire consisted of two opened questions.
The confidentiality was mantained at all levels as the employees details were not
asked.
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Most of the candidates got information about the vacancies through newspapers.
Around 50% of them referred to Employment News and 33% referred to The
Hindustan Times.
Most of the candidates found that downloading and filling up the forms was an
easy task, through some of them did face some problems and suggested that the
submission of form should be an online procedure.
Around 70% of the candidates said that the time gap between the release of
advertisement and submission of application form was adequate.
Newspapers and magazine were the topmost resources the provided informationto the candidate regarding the company while few of them surfed the internet for
the same.
Work profile stood out as the top most reason as to why people wanted to shift
over to NTPC, the offer being job security and growth prospects.
The general inference that can be drawn about pre interview arrangements is
that overall most of the candidates were quite satisfied, only some faced some
problems.
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