Hrm: Selection Process
UNIVERSITY OF SAN AGUSTIN
GRADUATE SCHOOL
MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
SELECTION PROCESS: SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST
IN PARTIAL FULLFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS ON THE HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
SUBMITTED BY: MAY O. TOLENTINO
SUBMITTED TO: DR. CARMEN N. HERNANDEZ
Selection Process: Survival of the Fittest
Introduction
Charles Darwin first pondered this concept in his work On the Origin of Species during the 19th century in the context of the survival and extinction of biological species. Later did Herbert Spencer coin the phrase to draw comparable idea on his economic theories. Survival of the fittest according to Darwin’s theory means that only the ones most suited to a particular environment will survive. Those who can’t adapt will surely perish, while those who can adapt will stick around, and maybe even become suited to new environments. We might ask did they discover anything that might be applicable to business in the 21st Century? Or its relevance could be also applied in human resource management more specifically in selection process? Let us think of nature and ecological systems as a vast "free market" of perfect competition, where all living organisms are competing with each other for limited resources (sunlight, water, minerals, etc.)? Synonymous as to the many job applicants competing with each other in a struggle for survival or in plain employment term- to be hired. To be chosen as the best fitted candidate among the crowd of applicants for the one coveted position is indeed collectively tend to operate in ways analogous to natural eco-systems. Is it possible that success and survival in the wild might be analogous to success and survival in the employment race?
Selection can be conceptualized in terms of either choosing the fit candidates or rejecting the unfit candidates, or a combination of both. Selection process assumes that there are more candidates than the number of candidates actually selected, made possible through
GRADUATE SCHOOL
MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
SELECTION PROCESS: SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST
IN PARTIAL FULLFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS ON THE HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
SUBMITTED BY: MAY O. TOLENTINO
SUBMITTED TO: DR. CARMEN N. HERNANDEZ
Selection Process: Survival of the Fittest
Introduction
Charles Darwin first pondered this concept in his work On the Origin of Species during the 19th century in the context of the survival and extinction of biological species. Later did Herbert Spencer coin the phrase to draw comparable idea on his economic theories. Survival of the fittest according to Darwin’s theory means that only the ones most suited to a particular environment will survive. Those who can’t adapt will surely perish, while those who can adapt will stick around, and maybe even become suited to new environments. We might ask did they discover anything that might be applicable to business in the 21st Century? Or its relevance could be also applied in human resource management more specifically in selection process? Let us think of nature and ecological systems as a vast "free market" of perfect competition, where all living organisms are competing with each other for limited resources (sunlight, water, minerals, etc.)? Synonymous as to the many job applicants competing with each other in a struggle for survival or in plain employment term- to be hired. To be chosen as the best fitted candidate among the crowd of applicants for the one coveted position is indeed collectively tend to operate in ways analogous to natural eco-systems. Is it possible that success and survival in the wild might be analogous to success and survival in the employment race?
Selection can be conceptualized in terms of either choosing the fit candidates or rejecting the unfit candidates, or a combination of both. Selection process assumes that there are more candidates than the number of candidates actually selected, made possible through
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