ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT Module 9

LESSON 9: The Process of Recruiting, Selecting, the right people in the right jobs, it is also
and Training Employees referred to as talent management in the
contemporary studies of management in this
Most Essential Learning Competency: modern time.
Discuss the concept and nature of staffing. • Blue Collar Workers – those working on
machines or manual labor employees.
Objectives: • White Collar Workers - those who are
At the end of the lesson, students are expected to: clerical or professional employees.
• Gain an understanding on the definition and
Discussion:
nature of staffing,
For an organization to achieve its goals and ensure
• Determine the process steps, objectives, and
that its intended operations function properly and
functions of staffing to promote ultimate
effectively, an organization needs people with the right
organizational performance.
skills, competencies, knowledge, and abilities.
Pretest:
An organizational structure, together with its policies,
Direction: Read the following sentences. Write the
will only be functional and operational through the
letter of your best answer.
efforts of the people who compose the organization.
1. They are those who are called clerical or
In fact, people are considered to be an organization’s
professional employees.
A. Blue Collar Workers most important resource because people either create
B. Contractual Workers or undermine an organization’s reputation and how its
C. Free-lance Workers organizational goals are achieved. This is where the
D. White Collar Workers management function of staffing comes in.
2. An organization does not need people with the right
skills, competencies, knowledge, and abilities. DEFINITION OF STAFFING
A. True B. False Staffing is the management function that devotes
C. Maybe D. None of the above itself to acquiring, training, appraising, and
3. The following are characteristics of staffing, compensating the employees. It is conserned with the
except: proper placement, growth, and development of all
A. People-centered members who compose the organization so that the
B. Continuous function organization may be able to attain its goals effectively.
C. Involves people In addition, according to the literature, manning the
D. Maintaining quality workforce
organizational structure through effective and proper
4. The people in the organization is the most
selection, appraisal and development of personnel to
valuable resource.
A. True fill the roles designed into the organizational structure
B. False is the key to management function of staffing.
C. Maybe
D. None of the above NATURE OF STAFFING
5. Staffing is a separate function and does not follow The staffing function usually follows the planning and
with the other functions such as planning and organizing functions in a newly created or small
organizing. business. For an ongoing business, however, staffing
A. True is considered as a continuous process and involves
B. False various levels of management in the organization.
C. Maybe Furthermore, staffing is included as an integral part of
D. None of the above human resource management.

Introduction Characteristics of Staffing

“Give a person a job, you help them pay some bills;
teach them how to find a carrer and you provide them
with sustenance for life.” -Mark W. Boyer
Unlocking Difficulties:
• Staffing – a management function that
devotes itself to acquiring, training, appraising
and compensating employees.
• Human Resource Management
specialized field of management study that
facilitates the procurement and placement of
1. Staffing is people-centered. It is concerned
with all people in all levels of the organization.
It involves a broad classification of personnel
composed of blue collar workers, white collar
workers, managerial, nonmanagerial
personnel, and other professionals.
2. Staffing is a responsibility of every
manager. Every manager in the organization,
– regardless of managerial level, is
continuously engaged in the staffing function.
It is the duty of every manager to participate

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in the process of selection, training,
performance appraisal, and counseling of
employees and subordinates.
3. Staffing requires application of human
skills. Staffing is concerned primarily with
training and developing people. Therefore,
managers must be able to use their human
and interpersonal skills very well to properly
provide guidance and training to their
subordinates.
4. Staffing is a continuous function. It is not
an activity that is undertaken only temporarily.
Staffing must ensure that required manpower
is available in the organization at all times ti
avoid any problems.
5. Staffing is a logical process. It is a
managerial function that involves a series of
logical and sequential steps that are followed
to fill manpower the requirements of the
company.
6. Staffing deals with both present and future
manpower requirements. The staffing
function is concerned with both identifying
present-level manpower requirements as well
as determining future manpower
requirements as a result of employee
promotions as well as resignations or
terminations that will affect an organization’s
manpower requirements in its various
managerial operations.
7. Staffing involves people. This emphasizes
that people are considered a valuable
resource in any organization.
FUNCTIONS OF STAFFING
The ultimate goal of the staffing function is to promote
organizationsl performance by putting the right people
on the job. With this, staffing is considered to have
three major functions in any organization:
1. Attracting a quality workforce. Staffing
draws talented people into the organization in
an effort to find the best people suitable for the
job.
2. Developing a 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 make their work and work
setting convenient as well as opportunities to
grow both on and outside of their jobs.
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OBJECTIVES OF STAFFING
The staffing function in an organization seeks to
achieve the following objectives:
1. To help the organization reach its goals
2. To utilize the skills and abilities of the
organization’s workforce effectively
3. To provide the organization with employees
who are fit for the job
4. To provide employees with job satisfaction
and self-actualization
5. To enable employees to develop and maintain
a quality work-life-balance
6. To communicate an organization’s human
resource policies to employees
7. To be ethically and socially responcsive to the
needs of the society through its employees
STEPS IN THE STAFFING PROCESS
The staffing process as a managerial function consists
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 employees and enticing them
to apply for various jobs and positions in an
organization.
3. Selection. This is the 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 job.
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
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necessary for performing the job assigned to
him or her.
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 with
less pay and/or responsibility.
13. Transfer. This involves movement of an
employee from one job to another with or
without any increase in pay, status, or
responsibilities.
14. Separation. This is when an employee is
disassociated from the company.
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Posttest:
Direction: Below are some staffing concepts
previously discussed. Identify what is being described.
1. This means putting a particular person on the job
for which he or she was selected.
2. This refers to introducing a new employee to
his/her immediate work environment and co-
employees.
3. This is the process of searching for prospective
employees.
4. This involves determining how efficiently an
employee performs his or her job.
5. This is when an employee is disassociated from
the company.

Generalization:
An organization is primarily composed of people. That Reference:
being so, every organization needs to invest in a pool
of human capital that is qualified, talented, skilled, and Ng, Mark Francis G., “Organization and
competent to achieve its various goals. This is where Management: K-12”, (2019) Anvil Publishing, Inc.
the role of staffing comes in. This management
function looks into the various ways organizations
select, train, and appraise its employees who
compose its working force.

Employees are the wealth of an organization. If they

are placed in the jobs most appropriate for them, they
become most productive.

Exercise:
Instructions:
1. Take a look at the word cloud below. You will
notice that there are other words attached to
it related to the main terminology “TALENT
MANAGEMENT” (the two biggest words in
the cloud).
2. Get a piece of paper and draw a table with two
columns. In Column 1, write down as many
related words (not included in the cloud) to the
main terminology as you like. In Column 2,
write your personal reason why you think
each word you wrote in Column 1 is related to
the concept of the main terminology.