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Scenario 10-1 For Four Months You Have Been Employed as the Part-Time

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Scenario 10-1
For four months you have been employed as the part-time HRM for TS Inc., a small Canadian aviation company. In the past, recruitment and selection rested on the shoulders of the president and, like most small companies, TS Inc. used employee referrals and an informal interview processes in selecting employees. Since you have been hired, you have guided management through several stages of the recruitment and selection process to hire an aircraft maintenance engineer. TS Inc. has used proper selection methods such as screening, testing, and structured interviews but is not sure about how to integrate the data from these various sources. In the past, the president relied on his gut feeling about applicants and made poor hiring decisions.
-Refer to Scenario 10-1. TS Inc. has made costly selection errors in the past when the company underestimated the potential of an aircraft maintenance engineer, resulting in a no-hire decision. The applicant accepted a position with a competing aviation company and the quality of his work led to an industry safety award, resulting in increased contracts for the competing company. What is this error called?

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The part of the nervous system responsible for control of the bodily functions not consciously directed, such as breathing, the heartbeat, and digestive processes.

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