INTRODUCTION OF PLACEMENT

“Placement refers to the allocation of people to jobs. It includes initial

assignment of new employees, and promotion, transfer, or demotion of
present employees.”

After an employee has been hired and oriented, he or she must be placed in
his/her right job. Placement is understood as the allocation of people to jobs.
Assignment of a job apparently seems to be a simple task. The advertises
inviting application from candidates for a specified post. The advertisement
contains job description and job specification in detail. When a candidate
has been selected, it is logical that he or she is placed in the position that was
advertised earlier. But the task is not as simple as it looks. Times are
changing.
Changes in the work ethics reflecting the demand for meaningful work-
(1) Increased government pressure to hire and promote women and the
disadvantaged,
(2) Heightened awareness of the fact that firm have many jobs but each
individual has only one career.
Thus, the number of people and the number of jobs determine the placement
process in any company.
In simple words it is matching of requirement of the job vis-à-vis the
capabilities of newly recruited employees.
 JOB CLASSIFICATION

Placement of employees also depends on the nature of jobs. They are:-

1. Independent Jobs.
2. Sequential Jobs.
3. Pooled Jobs

 Independent Jobs

Here, non-overlapping routes or territories are allotted to each worker. In

such situation, the activities of one worker have little bearing on the
activities of other workers.
For example:- postal service and field sales.

 Sequential Jobs

Activities of one worker are dependent on the activities of a fellow worker.

For example:- Assembly lines.

 Pooled Jobs

There is high interdependence among activities. The final output is the result
of contribution of all the workers. It is the team work which matters.
For example: - Project teams, temporary task forces and assembly teams.