Recruitment and Selection process, element of Organisational Social Capital Building: A study Of Nigeria Medium Enterprises Human Resources Practitioners

In today's business operating environment, every organisation focus on gaining fair share of the market; seek competitive advantage; wants increased productivity and performance from and through the staff employ by their human resource unit. Recruitment and selection process are amongst the functions of human resources unit, which takes a central spot of the activities of many organisations. Human resources practitioners are expected to, not just, recruit staffs; they are saddled with the responsibility of employing staffs that fits in with the overall objectives of their firm. While Organisational social capital has been established in numerous studies too have causal link with a variety of organisational outcomes and objectives produced through employees. However, the use of recruitment and selection function to build social capital for firms have not been studied in detail, it therefore deserves proper attention in a contextual manner. This study looks at medium enterprise's human resource practitioner's perspective by studying recruitment and selection function as it contributes to organisation social capital building. This paper use a quantitative approach to study human resources practitioners acceptance of need to use recruitment and selection function to build organisation social capital for their firms. 451 human resources practitioners were sampled; used a Likert-scale questionnaire and descriptive, bivariate and multiple regression analysis was used to analyse the findings. The study reveal that majority of Nigeria medium enterprise's human resources practitioners were either unsure or believe there is no need to look out for candidates’ potential for effective social interaction skills during recruitment and selection process. The paper suggests that to improve social capital building in small and medium-sized enterprises, recruitment and selection functions of human resource need to be integrated with the overall organisation strategy to enhancing organisational outcomes.