THE IMPACT OF RECRUITMENT AND SELECTION PRACTICES ON EMPLOYEES PERFORMANCE: CASE SMEs IN POLLOG REGION - REPUBLIC OF NORTH MACEDONIA

The Republic of North Macedonia is facing with global trends and integrating processes toward to the European Union. Enterprises operates in the environment with the constantly changing and very unsecure circumstances. Managing of human resources has important attention in enterprises in developing countries such as our country. The main objectives of Human Resource Management(HRM) are to find right people for the right job and to achieve effectiveness of employees. To achieve effectivity and to take competitive advantages enterprises must have better recruitment and selection strategies. Employees are the main sources ideas and innovations, they build and keep relationships with the clients, they have crucial role for the enterprise to be sustained and to be competitive in the trade. The main objective of this paper is to identify and analyse practices that enterprises in Pollog region use to recruit and select employees and how these practices affects the employees’ performance. The research methodology is statistical, analysis, synthesis and comparative methods. The primary data is collected from the responses of structured questionnaire dedicated to enterprises in Pollog region and how they applied the practices of recruitment and selection processes. Different recruitment challenges using internal and external sources are finding in this research paper. The study revealed that the use of mediums, portals enables enterprises to recruit committed and productive employees. It is also determined that the selection should be appropriate and in this way to reduce the enterprise costs.