TITLE:
Labour Market Policies and Recruitment in Europe and Italy
AUTHORS:
Raimondo Ingrassia
KEYWORDS:
Human Resource Management, Labour Market Policy, Europe and Italy, Personnel Recruitment, Employers’ Search for Employees
JOURNAL NAME:
American Journal of Industrial and Business Management,
Vol.7 No.10,
October
24,
2017
ABSTRACT: Over the last few years,
most studies and labour market policies have focused on the competence of
people seeking employment. Few studies have tackled the issue from the point of
view of employers and how policy might affect the personnel recruitment. The aim of this article is to try to understand the impact of
labour policy on the processes involved in seeking personnel, with specific reference
to business organizations. After examining the strategic, organisational and
environmental variables that affect the personnel recruitment, the study focuses
on analysing active and passive labour policies in Europe and Italy. The
results that emerge highlight the fact that labour policy affects certain specific aspects
of the personnel recruitment: employee turnover, an individual’s employability, outplacement, efficiency of matching
between job supply and demand, competitiveness of candidates and their
productivity, efficient allocation of job offers, crowding-out effect, degree
of selectivity and contingency of search campaigns. The article ends with a few
observations regarding the limitations of the study and future research.