Case

SELECTION AT DESCON

Nasir Afghan

INDUSTRY :ENGINEERING

AREA :HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT/ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR

ORGANIZATION :-

LENGTH :21

LUMS No :05-699-2004-1

PUBLICATION YEAR : 2004

ABSTRACT:

(NOTE: Incomplete Case) Altaf Baig, Head of the Projects Division, needed a site manager for a prestigious pipeline project in southern Pakistan. The Head of the Human Resource Department, Sabeeh Faruqi and Shahid Luqman, Deputy, HR Department, identified several competent engineers for the position with the help of the DESCON Human Resource Information Systems (HRIS). On March 1, 2002 Altaf Baig was looking at several CVs in his office, trying to decide how to proceed further in order to select the best candidate for the job well before the March 15, 2002 deadline.