The process of staff recruitment and selection is becoming increasingly complex and its integration into organisational and Human Resource (HR) strategies means that the successful outcome of these processes is vital for job performance and organisational success. The intricacy of matching the right applicant to the right job is a perpetual activity for management and HR practitioners considering the organisation's economic, social and political contexts. This paper aims to identify the effect the environmental context …showed first 75 words of 2775 total…

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