Free, Fair and Efficient. Open Internal Job Advertising

摘要

A quiet revolution has been taking place in large employing organizations. Theinternal deployment of staff by management decision has been gradually replaced by an open internal job market. In such an open system, vacancies occurring within the organization are openly advertised to existing staff who then can choose to apply for them. Someone within the organization, most often the manager 'owning' the vacancy, then selects the person who will fill it. The project examined the operation of such open internal job markets to find out whether they were perceived as working effectively by both managers and staff applying for jobs. Evidenced was collected from about twenty major employing organizations. In four detailed case studies, line mangers and employees were interviewed as well as corporate and local HR managers.