Q."Recruitment is a positive process, while selection is a negative process." Do you agree? Give reasons.

This statement captures the exact functional difference between the two stages of staffing that this chapter and the next one deal with separately. …

Yes, this statement is correct, and it captures a genuine functional difference between the two processes.

Recruitment is a positive process because its entire purpose is to attract — to search for prospective candidates and stimulate them to apply, so that the organisation ends up with as wide and suitable a pool of applicants as possible. Every step of recruitment (advertising, campus visits, employee referrals) is aimed at adding more good candidates to the pool, not at removing anyone.

Selection is a negative process because its purpose, by contrast, is to narrow down — starting from the pool of applicants recruitment has produced, selection works by progressively screening out (rejecting) candidates who do not meet the requirements of the job, at each stage of the selection procedure (application screening, tests, interviews), until only the most suitable candidate(s) remain to be offered the position. …

Disagreeing with the statement by arguing selection is "positive" because it results in a hire — this misses the point that "positive" and "negative" here describe the DIRECTION of the process (adding to the pool …