ABSTRACT
This chapter analyzes the phenomenon of recruitment of new members within Values-Based Organizations (VBOs). Such organizations are particularly interested in attracting people who have the "vocation" to perform the specific kind of activity in which the organization's mission consists. The chapter outlines a brief introduction to the standard theory of personnel selection, as seen in economics. It considers an ordinary real-life situation when there is incomplete and asymmetric information between the individual applying for a job and the VBO which has to select him. Every VBO needs someone who teaches, who cures the ill or deals with the growth of the poor, driven by vocation and not only by wage. Vocation and intrinsic motivation are, in fact, two sides of the same coin. It concludes by making our own suggestion: to fill in some of the gaps of the present theory by proposing a non-conventional interpretation of the nature and role of vocation in VBOs.
