Staffing

Reported by:

Trina Ritchell R. Aquino
Staffing
– is defined as 
filling and 
keeping filled, 
positions in the 
organizational 
structure
When does Staffing begin?
Recall…

Planning & Decision Making
- Involves  selecting  goals  and 
objectives,  as  well  as  the 
actions to achieve them
Recall…

Organizing
- Involves establishing an intentional
structure of roles for people to fill
in an organization
When does Staffing begin?

After  planning  and  selection  of  the  organization 

structure, the next step in the management process 
is  to  fill  the  various  posts  provided  in  the 
organization.  This  is  termed  as  the  management 
of staffing function.
Staffing is a continuous process

The organization needs to update

and  retain  its  personnel  in  a 
never ending exercise
Work
Specialization
degree to which 
the work necessary 
to achieve 
organizational 
goals is broken 
down into various 
jobs.
 Work
Specialization
Also Called Division of Labor
Each employee is trained explicitly 
on how to best perform one small, 
specific task. 
Over time, that employee becomes 
extremely proficient and effective at 
performing that task.
This allows every employee in the 
organization to be an expert to some 
degree.
 Job Design
Specification of task activities 
associated with a particular job

Work arrangement aimed at reducing 
or overcoming job dissatisfaction and 
employee alienation arising from 
repetitive and mechanistic tasks
 Approaches to Job Design

JOB JOB
JOB ROTATION JOB ENRICHMENT
SIMPLIFICATION ENLARGEMENT
 Approaches to Job Design
The process of
designing jobs so that
jobholders have only a
small number of
JOB
SIMPLIFICATION
JOB
JOB ROTATION JOB ENLARGEMENT JOB ENRICHMENT

SIMPLIFICATION narrow activities to

perform
 Approaches to Job Design

JOB
SIMPLIFICATION
 Approaches to Job Design

JOB JOB
JOB ROTATION JOB ENRICHMENT
SIMPLIFICATION ENLARGEMENT
 Approaches to Job Design

Practice of periodically
shifting workers
through a set of jobs in
JOB
SIMPLIFICATION
JOB ROTATION
JOB ROTATION
JOB
ENLARGEMENT
JOB ENRICHMENT
a planned sequence.
 Approaches to Job Design
First Shift

Worker 1 Worker 2 Worker 3 

JOB
JOB
SIMPLIFICATION
ROTATION
 Approaches to Job Design

Worker 1

Worker 2 Worker 3 

JOB
JOB
SIMPLIFICATION
ROTATION
 Approaches to Job Design
Second Shift

Worker 2 Worker 3  Worker 1

JOB
JOB
SIMPLIFICATION
ROTATION
 Approaches to Job Design

Worker 2

Worker 3  Worker 1

JOB
JOB
SIMPLIFICATION
ROTATION
 Approaches to Job Design
Third Shift

Worker 3  Worker 1 Worker 2

JOB
JOB
SIMPLIFICATION
ROTATION
 Approaches to Job Design

Worker 3 

Worker 1 Worker 2

JOB
JOB
SIMPLIFICATION
ROTATION
 Approaches to Job Design
First Shift

Worker 1 Worker 2 Worker 3 

JOB
JOB
SIMPLIFICATION
ROTATION
 Approaches to Job Design

JOB JOB
JOB ROTATION JOB ENRICHMENT
SIMPLIFICATION ENLARGEMENT
 Approaches to Job Design
 The allocation of a
wider variety of
similar tasks to a job
in order to make it
JOB JOB
JOB
ENLARGEMENT
JOB ROTATION JOB ENRICHMENT

more challenging
SIMPLIFICATION ENLARGEMENT

 To add more duties,

and an increased
workload
 Approaches to Job Design

JOB
JOBJOB
ENLARGEMENT
SIMPLIFICATION
ROTATION
 Approaches to Job Design

JOB JOB
JOB ROTATION JOB ENRICHMENT
SIMPLIFICATION ENLARGEMENT
 Approaches to Job Design
 Process of
upgrading the job-
task mix in order to
increase significantly
JOB
JOB ROTATION
JOB
JOB
JOB ENRICHMENT

ENRICHMENT
ENLARGEMENT

the potential for

SIMPLIFICATION

growth,
achievement,
responsibility, and
recognition
 Approaches to Job Design

 Means
improvement, or an
increase with the
JOB
JOB ROTATION
JOB
JOB
JOB ENRICHMENT

ENRICHMENT
SIMPLIFICATION ENLARGEMENT

help of upgrading
and development
Approaches to Job Design
 Movement of Personnel 

Lay-Of
Discharge
Performance
Appraisal Training

Selection

Recruitment Outplacement
Retirement

Transfer

Resignation
Promotion
 Movement of Personnel 

is the process of encouraging,

Recruitment inducing, or influencing applicants

Recruitment
to apply for a certain vacant
position
Performance
Appraisal

Resignation Lay-
Of

Training

Selection

Outplacement

Transfer
Retirement

Promotio
n Discharge
 Movement of Personnel 
Recruitment
Recruitment

Is the process of getting the

Performance
Appraisal

Resignation Lay-
Of

Training
Selection
Selection most qualified applicant from
among different job seekers.
Selection

Outplacement

Transfer
Retirement

Promotio
n Discharge
 Movement of Personnel 
Recruitmen
Recruitmen
tt
Selection
Selection

Is the systematic development of the

Training
Training
attitude/knowledge/behaviour patterns for the
adequate performance of a given job or task.

Performance
Appraisal

Resignation Lay-
Of

Training

Selection

Outplacement

Transfer
Retirement

Promotio
n Discharge
 Movement of Personnel 
Recruitmen
Recruitmen
tt
Selection
Selection
Training
Training
Refers to the shifting of an employee

Transfer
Transfer
from one position to another without
increasing his duties, responsibilities,
or pay.

Performance
Appraisal

Resignation Lay-
Of

Training

Selection

Outplacement

Transfer
Retirement

Promotio
n Discharge
 Movement of Personnel 
Recruitment
Recruitment

Selection
Selection
Training
Training
Transfer
Transfer
Refers to the shifting of an employee to a new position

Promotion to which both his status and responsibilities are

Promotion increased.

Performance
Appraisal

Resignation Lay-
Of

Training

Selection

Outplacement

Transfer
Retirement

Promotio
n Discharge
 Movement of Personnel 
Recruitment
Recruitment

Selection
Selection
Training
Training
Transfer
Transfer
Promotion
Promotion

Performance
is the process of helping people who have been
Appraisal

dismissed from the company to regain

Outplacement
Resignation Lay-
Of

Training Outplacement employment elsewhere.

Selection

Outplacement

Transfer
Retirement

Promotio
n Discharge
 Movement of Personnel 
Recruitment
Recruitment

Selection
Selection
Training
Training
Transfer
Transfer

Lay-Of
Promotion
Promotion

Lay-Of
Outplacement
Outplacement

Is a type of separation, temporary and

involuntary, usually traceable to a
negative business condition
Performance
Appraisal

Resignation Lay-
Of

Training

Selection

Outplacement

Transfer
Retirement

Promotio
n Discharge
 Movement of Personnel 
Recruitment
Recruitment

Selection
Selection
Training
Training
Transfer
Transfer
Promotion
Promotion Is a permanent
Outplacement
Outplacement
Lay-Of
Lay-Of
separation of an
employee, at the will of
Discharge
Discharge an employer, if a person
is not competent in his
job, guilty of breaking
Performance
Appraisal
rules like delinquency
Resignation Lay-
Of
and insubordination, and
Training

other violations
Selection

Outplacement

Transfer
Retirement

Promotio
n Discharge
 Movement of Personnel 
Recruitment
Recruitment

Selection
Selection
Training
Training
Transfer
Transfer
Promotion
Promotion
Outplacement
Outplacement
Lay-Of
Lay-Of
Discharge
Discharge

Resignation
Resignation

Performance
Appraisal

Resignation Lay-
Of
Is voluntary and permanent separation of an
Training

employee due to due to low morale, low

Selection

Outplacement
salary, etc.
Transfer
Retirement

Promotio
n Discharge
 Movement of Personnel 
Recruitment
Recruitment

Selection
Selection
Training
Training
Transfer
Transfer
Promotion
Promotion
It can either be voluntary
Outplacement
Outplacement
Lay-Of
Lay-Of
Discharge
Discharge
Resignation
Resignation or involuntary; if an

Retirement
Retirement
employee retires upon
reaching the number of
years of services in a
company as provided for
Performance
Appraisal
by its policies or upon
Resignation Lay-
Of
reaching the age of 65.
Training

Selection

Outplacement

Transfer
Retirement

Promotio
n Discharge
 Movement of Personnel 
Recruitment
Recruitment

Selection
Selection
Training
Training
Transfer
Transfer
Promotion
Promotion
Outplacement
Outplacement
Lay-Of
Lay-Of
Discharge
Discharge
Resignation
Resignation
Retirement
Retirement

Is the process of defining, measuring,

Performance
Performance
Appraisal

Resignation Lay- Performance evaluating, and recording expectations from

Of

Training
Appraisal
Appraisal
Selection
employee performance.
Outplacement

Transfer
Retirement

Promotio
n Discharge