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Org. Management Staffing

Staffing is the process of filling and maintaining positions within an organization through various functions such as recruitment, selection, training, and development. It is a continuous and pervasive activity that aims to match the right people with the right jobs, ultimately contributing to organizational performance. The staffing process includes steps like manpower planning, recruitment, selection, placement, and performance evaluation, among others.

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Org. Management Staffing

Staffing is the process of filling and maintaining positions within an organization through various functions such as recruitment, selection, training, and development. It is a continuous and pervasive activity that aims to match the right people with the right jobs, ultimately contributing to organizational performance. The staffing process includes steps like manpower planning, recruitment, selection, placement, and performance evaluation, among others.

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STAFFING

Staffing is defined as the filling and keeping filled positions in the organizational structure. This
is done by identifying work-force requirements, inventorying the people available, recruiting,
selecting, placing, promoting, appraising, planning the careers, compensating, training,
developing existing staff or new recruits, so that they can accomplish their tasks effectively and
efficiently."

The definitions of the staffing function as given by the different


management experts are given below.

● "The managerial function of staffing involves operating the organizational structure


through proper and effective selection, appraisal and development of personnel to fill the
roles designed into the structure." - Koontz and O'Donnell

● "Staffing relates to the recruitment, selection, development, training, compensation of


subordinate managers." - Theo Haimann

● "Staffing is the function by which managers build an organization through the


recruitment, selection, and development of individuals as capable employees." -
McFarland

● "Staffing is the human resource function of identifying, attracting, hiring, and retaining
people with the necessary qualifications to fill the responsibilities of current and future
jobs in the organization." - Dyck and Neubert

● The staffing process involves hiring in identifying assessing, placing, evaluating - S.


Benjamin

● "Staffing is the function by which managers build an organization through the


recruitment, selection, and development of individuals as capable employees." -
McFarland.

NATURE OF STAFFING

The following points describe the nature of the staffing function. osay ie an mrction or an organ
fine in sion i their linetions of the management; planning, organizing, directing, coordinating, and
controlling epend upon the employees of the organization which are made available through the
staffing function.

● Staffing is a pervasive activity. It is carried out in every organization and at all the levels
of the management in the organization.
● Staffing is a continuous activity. This is due to the fact that the function of staffing
continues throughout the life of the organization.

● The basis of staffing function is the efficient management of personnel. The process
involved in the staffing function in the organization is efficiently managed by a system or
with well-tried procedures.

● The function of staffing helps in placing right men at the right job.

● It can be done effectively through proper recruitment procedures and then finally
selecting the most suitable candidate as per the job requirements.

● Staffing involves people. This emphasizes that people are considered a valuable
resource in any organization. It is concerned with all people in all levels of the
organization.

● Staffing requires application of human skills .Staffing function is concerned with training
and developing people. Every manager should use their human and interpersonal skill in
providing guidance and training to the subordinates.

CHARACTERISTICS OF STAFFING

From its definition and its nature as a management function, staffing has the following
characteristics:

● It is an essential element of management.


● It is goal-oriented
● It is performed within the enterprise by all the managers at all the times.
● It is intangible in nature.
● It is concerned with matching the people with the jobs.
● It is a process, not an isolated function.
● It is concerned with total management system.
● Its efficiency varies from one enterprise to another, and from one time period to another
even within an enterprise.

FUNCTIONS OF STAFFING

The ultimate aim of the staffing function is to stimulate organizational ormance by placing the
right people on the job. With this, staffing is said to have three main functions in any
organization.

1. Attracting a quality workforce. Staffing attract talented and skilled people into the
organization in an effort to find the best people suitable for the job
2. Developing quality workforce. Staffing focuses on making sure that employees
admitted to the organization know how to perform their duties properly.

3. Maintaining a quality workforce. Staffing should be able to encourage employees to


stay in the organization by providing them with opportunities to ake their work and work
setting convenient as well as opportunities to gro both on and outside of their jobs.

OBJECTIVES OF STAFFING

The staffing function in an organization pursues to achieve the following objectives:

● To help the organization meet its goals

● To make use of the skills and abilities of the organization's workforce effectively

● To provide the organization with employees who are fit for the job To give employees
with job satisfaction and self-actualization

● To enable employees to develop and maintain a quality work-life balance To


communicate an organization's human resource policies to employees

● To be ethically and socially responsive to the needs of the society through its
employees.

STEPS IN THE STAFFING PROCESS

The staffing processes as a managerial function consist of a series of logical and sequential
steps listed and briefly introduced as follows:

1. Manpower planning. It involves determining the quantitative and qualitative requirements


of manpower or labor in an organization

2. Recruitment. This is the process of searching for prospective employer d enticing them
to apply for various jobs and vositions in an organization

3. Selection. This process of selecting the persons who are most suitable for the jobs in an
organization

4. Placement. This means putting a particular person on the job for which he or she was
selected

5. Induction. This is where a new employee is provided the necessary information he or


she has to know about the company
6. Orientation. This is where a new employee is introduced to his/her immediate work
environment and co-employees.

7. Training This involves providing the employee with the necessary skills, abilities, and
competencies he or she needs to function properly with his or her current iobs

8. Development. This involves providing employees with opportunities for promotion to


future or higher jobs

9. Compensation or Remuneration. This involves providing a reasonable and equitable


monetary equivalent to an employee's nature of work.

10. Performance evaluation or appraisal. This involves determining how efficiently an


employee performs his or her job and knowing his or her aptitudes and other qualities
necessary for performing the jobs assigned to him or her from the company

11. Promotion. This is the process of upgrading an employee to a higher position involving
an increase in rank, prestige or status, and responsibilities.

12. Demotion. This is the process of moving down an employee to a lower position which
less pay and/or responsibility

13. Transfer. This involves movement of an employee from one job t nother with or without
any increase in pay, status, or responsibilities

14. Separation. This is when an employee is separated from the company

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