STAFFING

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Staffing is one of the most important function on management. To run an organization such as business organization, we need staff to assist the organization to achieve their goals. The staffs will work under a given supervisor and will be the act of holding a position at the organization or company.

What is Staffing?

Staffing is the function of employee recruitment, screening and selection performed within an organisation or business to fill job openings. It is a managerial function that will involves obtaining, retaining and utilizing competent and qualified candidates to fill all position of the organisation from top to operative echelon. In the other words, staffing is a placing the right person at the right job.

Other area need to be handled for staffing are orientation, training, retention and termination. These responsibilities usually will handled by staffing department or the other top management. This function also can be handled outside of an organization by using contractors at various levels of the staffing process. Small organizations may handle staffing on a case-by-case basis, while larger organizations may go through multiple staffing cycles during a single year. Organizations of any size may may use staffing to acquire temporary or permanent employees. Some related terms and departments include human resources, personnel management and hiring.

Importance of staffing

• It will assist in the finding out efficient and effective workforce. The variant post in the organisation will be filled.
• By appointing the right person at the right job, the organisation's performance and productivity will be improved.
• The staffing requirements of the organisation in future facilitated by it.
• The continuous survival and growth of the organisation, by way of succession planning for executives will be ensured
• Development of personal to take up top managerial positions of the organisation.
• Training and development of the people working of the organisation also will be ensured
• The organisation in making the optimum use of human resources will be assisted.
• It helps in job satisfaction improvements of employees.

Development of personal to take up 

top managerial positions of the organisation

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Function of Staffing

• To obtain qualified personnel for different jobs position in the organisation.
• It leads to maximum productivity and higher performance
• It helps in promoting the optimum utilization of human resource through various aspects.
• Job satisfaction and morale of the employees increases through the recruitment of the right person.
• To ensure better utilization of human resources.
• To ensures the continuity and growth of the organisation, through development managers.

Obtain qualified personnel for different jobs 

position in the organisation

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Process of Staffing

This process usually stresses on the equipping the organisation with an exact number of people, and that too at the right time and place. This is actually important to help the organisation to attain their objectives effectively. This process involves a series of steps as follows:

1. Manpower Planning. It popularly known as human resource planning. This process is the process of forecasting the firm's demand for and supply of competent workforce, in the adequate number in future.
2. Recruitment. It includes seeking, stimulating and obtaining, as many application as possible from the eligible and competent candidates.
3. Selection. This step is the decisive step of the staffing process. It involves differentiating between applicants, so as to identify and choose the candidate who best to fulfill the qualifications and requirements of the vacant position.
4. Placement. The allocation of rank and responsibility to selected candidate.
5. Orientation and Development. This is the step after the placement step. This step is to provide the new employee with the information they require for functioning comfortably and efficiently in the organisation they are joining. This step is the process of introducing the new joiners to the job and organisation as well.
6. Training and Development. In this step, the new joiners undergo training to acquire specific skills. The new joiners also will undergo a development in learning opportunities that designed by the organisation to ensure the growth of employees.
7. Performance Appraisal. This is a rational assessment and evaluation of employee's performance against clear-cut benchmarks.
8. Career Management. This is a process in which the individual understand and learns new skills and interests and use them for the betterment of the organisation and self.
9. Compensation. It refer to the consideration which an individual gains, in return for his or her contribution to the organisation.

Organisation need to produce advertisement 

in order to get new employees that they need

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