Abstract
Nowadays, most companies use the terms retention and recruitment together yet these functions involve entirely different activities. The merging of these functions in companies has been met with equal measures of support and rejection. This paper looks at the development of recruitment and retention in the history of human resource with emphasis on the period when the usage of the two terms became common. It examines the reasons why companies always lump retention and recruitment together. The reasons why we should avoid lumping recruitment and retention together are then discussed with emphasis on the implications of lumping these two Continue reading...