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Employment Relations in India<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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1.0 Introduction\nof India<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Republic of India (Bh\u0101rat Ga\u1e47ar\u0101jya), also known as India is located in southern Asia, with seacoast line of 5566 kilometers. India has more than 100 different nationals\u2019 groups, the majorities are Hindustanis with more than 30% of its national population. India was one of the four ancient civilizations country. India was under the British colonial rule for 193 years since 1757, India declared its independence and confederation in Jan 26, 1950 as well at the mean time India becomes a member of the British Commonwealth Countries. India has an enormous population, according to Worldometers.com India\u2019s population in 2019 is currently 1.366 billion [1]<\/a>, it has the world\u2019s second largest population in India. India is also a member of the BRIC’s, its economy is diversified in agriculture, handicrafts, textiles and services. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

2.0 Overview\nof the Country <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two- thirds of India\u2019s population still earns their living directly or indirectly from agriculture. India\u2019s services have grown rapidly in recent years to become the world\u2019s most important exporter of services like software and finance.  However, although it\u2019s rapid growth on GDP India is still a developing country with extremely unbalanced distribution of social wealth. Gathering information\u2019s from BusinessToday.com India\u2019s wealth gap gets worse, the top 1% bag 73% of the country\u2019s wealth [2]<\/a>. Thus, it is vital to investigate the formal sector of India\u2019s recruitment practices, selection practices and the situations that\u2019s occurring in India\u2019s employment relation problems. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

3.0 Recruitment\nPractices <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the world\u2019s second largest population and a booming economy growth, many people would like to seek for a stable formal job in India, so the recruitment process and practice plays a vital role in the business field, because the objective of the recruitment process is to arrange the most desirable candidate in a suitable job position. Thus, with a vast population like India, recruitment practices will be a more comprehensive process in the formal sector jobs (excluding the casual and informal sectors). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

3.1 Social Media Recruitment<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It is interesting to know that almost 94% of HR recruiters uses social media to post a position, specifically on LinkedIn[3]<\/a> as Artificial Intelligence and Big Data becomes more popular and enforced, HR departments in India has well intergraded these elements into their recruitment practices. Thus, it is the future trend for people in India seek for jobs and apply online. Although social media is the major platform for job seekers to find their opportunity, however the core steps of the recruitment process is still very traditional and formal. Such as setting up a formal document listing Job Specifications, Job Requirements and Job Descriptions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

3.2 Campus Recruitment<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Companies in India would also invest in education institutions for research funds, not only to build up their reputation and awareness. Companies would also provide intern opportunities during campus recruitment periods in every winter season and fall [4]<\/a>. With the investment into labs, campus education, the companies not only can attract potential talented employees they can also build up a brand loyalty into the student\u2019s perspective during their recruitment process. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Then, the above recruitment practices will forward into arranging interviews with the appropriate candidates. Referring to Placement India.com the essential steps of the further recruitment process are mainly categorized into three Application Short Listing, Preliminary Assessment and Final Interview [5]<\/a>. India also contains a strict requirement for candidates to be qualified to the job, implementations such as a written test, written paper, or any forms of examination are needed in the recruitment practices [5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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4.0 Selection Practices<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The selection practices in India has to go through series of examinations first, such as traditional interviews, written test reference checks [4]<\/a>. The purpose of an written exams were to testify whether the candidate understand the knowledge for the job, and an traditional interviews are to have a formal individual face-to-face conversation , so the company can understand the candidate\u2019s personality in a super short period of time, therefore every detail counts during the interview [6]<\/a>. During the selection process, appliance\u2019s resume also plays a vital role [5]<\/a>, because managers can reflect a lot of information\u2019s from the resume, such as its neatness, attitudes, and other surfaced information\u2019s. It is in India\u2019s tradition for managers not to use one tool only to select its candidate in the formal sector, because more techniques will help to find the most suitable person for the job [6]<\/a>. Most companies have their own forms of process, but most processes have somewhat in degree reference to a written test and a structural interview. There are four key factors companies in India will construct its selection process on, those are practically, sensitivity, reliability and validity [7]<\/a>. The objective of the selection practices in India was to \u201cMatching people with Jobs\u201d[4]<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

5.0 Miscellaneous Information<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There are trends of emerging IT (Information Technology) sectors in India because of variety of reasons. It contributed as much as 7.7 percent and expecting to be 10% in 2025\u00a0[8]<\/a>.\u00a0The IT sector plays a major role in India\u2019s export growth too, overcoming BPM and software products. Therefore, IT sector should now begin to invest a perfect recruitment and selection process particularly for this sector because of its size and potential in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5.1 Unions<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In India, most middle size and public sector are considered as formal jobs, and the employment relations does not come to a consensus easily, so managers in India has to deal with Unions workers and Union disputes. Formal sector companies have no control over employees joining unions because it is written in the constitutional law that any individual have the right to join a union. Unions in India is very easily formed in the past, however due to the over controlled numbers of unions exist, it was regulated for some requirements to join a union. None the less, laws are sometimes more favorable on the workers side because Union and politics are very closely aligned in India. The six major unions currently exist in India are [9]<\/a>    <\/p>\n\n\n\n