Critical Success Factor in Lateral Recruitment of Defence Officers

Abstract

A Recruitment and Selection is of prime importance for effective Human Resource Management in an Organization. Improved organizational outcomes can be obtained by efficient Recruitment and selection strategies. The main objective of this paper is to find out the Critical Success Factor in Lateral Recruitment of Defence Officers. The study focuses on, what is Lateral Recruitment and how Lateral Recruitment offers a better opportunity to any organization to select the best talents available across different organization. The study would help the recruiter to take into account these focus areas towards the successful Recruitment of trained and experienced manpower. To get an empirical answer to the research question, data was collected through a structured questionnaire which was validated through experts. Both primary and secondary sources were used in data, and the sample size was 149. Both quantitative and qualitative means has been used for data analysis.

Selecting the best human in meeting the requirements of the jobs has implications on organizational goals. Employee properly recruited would not only contribute to the proficient running of the organization but offer significantly to the organizational performance. Dynamic recruitment and selection strategy needs to be chosen to let the organization prosper. The major aim of this research paper is to help the HR managers and academia in finding the tools for better recruitment process of Defence Officers in particular through Lateral Recruitment process.