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RECRUITMENT

The Recruitment or selection process is a series of specific steps used to decide which recruits should be hired. The process begins when recruits apply for employment and ends with the hiring decision. Though the final hiring decision is made by the immediate supervisor or manager in many cases the HRM department evaluates applicants in regard to their potential suitability through the use of valid procedures. The process may be seen as consisting of eight discrete steps, namely: 1. Preliminary reception of applications This is the step that brings together the organization with the applicant. The applicant has the chance to learn about the organization and the organization has the chance to provide all the necessary information about the job. Often a preliminary interview may be granted as courtesy, which helps the organization to screen out obvious misfits. 2. Employment tests  These tests are devices that assess the match between applicant

Antisocial Personality Disorder

The discussion of antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) allows a sobering look at the field of clinical psychiatry in general, and its research endeavours in particular. An extremely important aspect in the overall perception of this disorderis the cultural dimension. The very term ‘‘antisocial’’ reflects the inherence of environmental factors. Cultural relativism plays an important role, particularly in the light of the media and the general public’s tendency to easily introduce clinical terms into everyday jargon [1]. Antisocial is a very broad term; antisocial behaviour can be a coping mechanism to deal with an adverse milieu in large cities and small towns alike, in modern Western world metropolis, and in tiny villages in the Sahara desert, the Australian jungles, or Andean communities in Latin American countries [2]. Furthermore, there are the ‘‘charming’’ or ‘‘acceptable’’ psychopaths, many of them living not precisely in the darkness of jails or in the fringes of a society that