Emphasis on Leadership Competencies and Professional Ethics for Human Resource Professionals: Analysing the Recruitment Advertisements
| Author | Jayant Gaurav |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/00195561221109151 |
| Published date | 01 December 2022 |
| Date | 01 December 2022 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
Emphasis on Leadership
Competencies and
Professional Ethics
for Human Resource
Professionals: Analysing
the Recruitment
Advertisements
Jayant Gaurav1
Abstract
Human Resource (HR) as a functional domain is largely concerned with managing
the human capital of an organisation, and it aims to achieve maximum output by
realising the full potential of workforce. This article attempts to analyse the empha-
sis put by organisations on three important competencies, namely, leadership traits,
social intelligence and ethics. The extent of emphasis put on these three competen-
cies was determined through a qualitative analysis of around 450 job advertisements
(job ads) posted by organisations for the purpose of recruiting HR managers at
various levels in their organisations. The results obtained after manual coding and
analysis of these job advertisements suggest that although traits of leadership, social
intelligence and ethics are important competencies for HR professionals, organisa-
tions put weak emphasis on communicating this at the time of recruitment. If we
compare among leadership, social intelligence and ethics, Leadership is the most
emphasised upon at the time of recruitment for HR managers. Overall, it was found
that, organisations neither communicated their ethics and values as part of their
job advertisements and nor put specific insistence for these qualities in candidates
applying for the HR positions therein. At this point, it is difficult to say whether or
not these competencies are assessed by interviewers before finally selecting them,
and the resultant validity and reliability of the process is questionable.
Keywords
Social intelligence skills, recruitment advertisements analysis, HR competency,
organisational priorities, job advertisement communications
Article
Indian Journal of Public
Administration
68(4) 679–690, 2022
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1 Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
Corresponding author:
Jayant Gaurav, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, 2WV6+VXH, VN Purav Marg, Deonar, Chembur,
Mumbai, Maharashtra 400088, India.
E-mail: jayantgauravindia@gmail.com
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