Staffing

Staffing

Staffing is the process by which an organization cerates a pool of applicants and makes a choice from that pool to provide the right person at the right place at the right time to increase the organizational effectiveness.

          The staffing function follows the planning and organizing function. It is a continuous process. This function includes recruitment, selection, training, development, transfer, promotion and compensation of personnel.

          According to Koontoz & O’Donnell, “ Managerial function of staffing involves managing the organization structure through proper and effective selection, appraisal and development of personnel to fill the roles designed into the structure.”

          The major elements of staffing are as follows –

i.                   Effective recruitment and selection.

ii.                 Proper classification of personnel and pay fixed for them.

iii.              Proper placement.

iv.              Adequate and appropriate training for development.

v.                 Satisfactory and fair transfer & promotion.

vi.              Sound relationship between management and workers.

vii.            Adequate provision for retirement.

Steps or Functions of Staffing –

1.     Manpower Planning – The very first step in staffing is to plan the manpower inventory required by a concern in order to match them with the job requirements and demands. Therefore, it involves forecasting and determining the future manpower needs of the concern.

2.     Requirement – Once the requirements are notified, the concern invites and solicits applications according to the invitations made to the desirable conditions.

3.     Selection – This is the screening step of staffing in which the solicited applications are screened out and suitable candidates are appointed as per the requirement.

4.     Training and Development – Training is a part of incentives given to the workers in order to develop and grow them within the concern. Training is generally given according to the nature of activities and scope of expansion in it. Along with it, the workers are developed by providing them extra benefits of their functional areas. Development also includes giving them key and important jobs as a test or examination in order to analysis their performances.

5.     Performance Evaluation – In order to keep a track or record of the behavior, attitudes as well as opinions of the workers towards their jobs. For this regular assessment is done to evaluate and surprise different work units in a concern. It is basically concerning to know the development cycle and growth patterns of the employees in a concern.