Principles of Management

Unit 4: STAFFING
STAFFING
STAFFING
• Staffing refers to the process of finding the right employee with
appropriate qualifications or experience and recruiting them to
fill a position/ role/ job/organizational vacancies.
• Staffing is an important function as it ensures efficient
performance of all other management functions.
• All other management functions are performed by skilled and
experienced human resources.
• Staffing involves recruitment and deployment of quality
personnel in various positions across an organization.
Meaning of Staffing in Management

• Staffing is an operation of recruiting the employees by

evaluating their skills, knowledge and then offering them
specific job roles accordingly.

• Definition: Staffing can be defined as one of the most important

functions of management. It involves the process of filling the
vacant position of the right personnel at the right job, at right
time. Hence, everything will occur in the right manner.
 Purpose of Staffing
• Staffing is an HR function, involves Human Resource Planning,
Recruitment, Screening, Selection and identifying the right person for the
job.

• Purpose of staffing is to simultaneously help a job seeker to find a job,

and find a qualified candidate for the organization to achieve its goals.

• It is very important that each and every person who seek job should get
right position in the organization so as to get the right job, according to
their ability, talent, aptitude, and specializations.
Functions of Staffing
1. To obtain qualified personnel for different jobs position in the
organization.
2. The right person is recruited for the right jobs, therefore it leads to
maximum productivity and higher performance.
3. Helps in promoting the optimum utilization of human resource
through various aspects.
4. Job satisfaction and morale of the workers increases through the
recruitment of the right person.
5. Staffing helps to ensure better utilization of human resources.
6. It ensures continuity and growth of the organization, through
developing the managers.
Importance of Staffing
• Efficient performance of other functions of management.
• Efficient use of Technology and other Resources
• Optimum utilization of Human Resources
• Development of Human Capital
• Motivation of Human Resources
• Building Higher Morale of employees

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Components / Elements of Staffing
1. Estimating Manpower Requirements
2. Job Analysis
3. Recruitment
4. Selection
5. Placement and Orientation
6. Training and Development
7. Performance Appraisal
8. Promotion
9. Compensation
10. Separation
Manpower Planning

• Manpower Planning [Human Resource Planning] consists of

putting the right number of people, right kind of people at the
right place, right time, doing the right things for which they are
suited for the achievement of goals of the organization.
 Recruitment
• Recruitment is a positive process of searching for
prospective employees and stimulating them to apply for
the jobs in the organization.
• When more persons apply for jobs then there will be a
scope for recruiting better persons.
• According to Edwin B. Flippo, “It is a process of searching
for prospective employees and stimulating and
encouraging them to apply for jobs in an organization.”
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Selection

• Selection is the process of picking or choosing the right

candidate, who is most suitable for a vacant job position in an
organization. ...

• Selection is a process of identifying and hiring the applicants

for filling the vacancies in an organization.
Selection Process
Placement

• Placement is the act of offering the job to a finally selected

candidate.

• It is the act of finally assigning the rank and responsibility to an

employee, identifying him/her with a particular job.
Induction Training & Orientation

• Induction training is a form of introduction for new employees

in order to enable them to do their work in a new profession or
job role within an organization.

• Training can be systematic or unsystematic training. Induction

training is systematic training.
Training and Development

• According to Edwin Flippo, ‘training is the act of increasing the

skills of an employee for doing a particular job’.

• Training and development refers to educational activities

within a company created to enhance the knowledge and skills
of employees while providing information and instruction on how
to better perform specific tasks.
Remuneration
Someone's remuneration is the amount of money that they are
paid for the work that they do.

• Salary
• Wages
• Incentives
• Over time Incentives / Pay
• Bonus
 Performance Appraisal

• Performance appraisal, also referred to as a performance review,

performance evaluation, development discussion, or employee
appraisal is a method by which the job performance of an
employee is documented and evaluated.
Techniques of Performance Appraisal

1. Management by Objectives (MBO) ...

2. 360-Degree Feedback ...

3. Assessment Centre Method ...

4. Behaviorally Anchored Rating Scale (BARS) ...

5. Psychological Appraisals. ...

6. Human-Resource (Cost) Accounting Method.