Milkround Professionalism in Personnel Recruitment: Myth or Reality?
- 1 January 1990
- journal article
- Published by Emerald Publishing in Personnel Review
- Vol. 19 (1), 28-37
- https://doi.org/10.1108/00483489010004711
Abstract
A “critical case” approach is used to examine whether the recruitment practices and procedures advocated by social scientists within the personnel field are realised in practice. The “critical case” selected is the graduate recruitment known as the “milkround”, where “scientific techniques” in theory stand the best chance of being used. In practice a major discrepancy between theory and practice was found, which is explained in terms of the preoccupation with material and symbolic security that conditions the actions of personnel managers in competitively co‐ordinated employment establishments.Keywords
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