The purpose of this study was to assess the effectiveness of the recruitment and selection practices and processes of services organizations. The need to attract and select a highly capabilities and skilled workforce in a tight and competitive market made the necessity adoption of best practices in recruitment and selection by services based organizations. The basic objective of this research is to investigate and analyze the effectiveness of recruitment & selection in public sector universities, keeping in view procedural fairness, Transparency, gender issues, Line Manager Role, HR Competency and organizational & state politics influence. Recruitment and selection had been a very key area of research among the researchers of human resource management field.

KEYWORDS: Organizational Politics, Line and HR Management, Manpower   Planning, Employment.