Highlighting Tensions in Recruitment and Selection Research and Practice

Abstract

In this article we highlight five tensions that exist in recruitment and selection (R&S) research and practice today and that are centered around the ‘efficiency press’ and so called ‘research–practice’ gap. Identified tensions are desires for (1) innovation and efficiency, (2) customization and consistency, (3) transparency and effectiveness, (4) wide‐reach and coherence, and (5) diversity and standardization. Each tension is illustrated with findings from the five studies of this Special Issue that were presented at the third meeting of the European Network of Selection Researchers (August 2014), and supplemented with empirical data on the research–practice gap in R&S (period 2009–2013). We consider how we might move forward in addressing the ‘efficiency press’ in research as well as managing these tensions in practice.

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