STAFFING

STAFFING ????
 The term staffing may be defined as the managerial function of
hiring and developing the required personnel to fill in various
positions in an organization. This function involves the
determination of the size and categories of staff requirement.

 It is also concerned with employing the right type of people and

developing their skills through training. The staffing function
focuses on maintaining and improving the manpower in an
organization.
MANPOWER PLANNING
 According to Geisler, manpower planning including forecasting,
developing and controlling- is the process by which a firm ensures
that it has the right number of people and right kind of people at the
right time, doing work for which they are economically most useful.

 From this definition it is clear that manpower is a vital tool in the

hands of management to control labour cost by avoiding both
shortages and surpluses of personnel in an organization.

 Man power planning can be either short-term or long-term.

 SHORT TERM MANPOWER PLANNING….
 This planning is done to find a temporary match between the existing
individuals and the existing jobs. It aims at quick removal of anomalies in
posting and placement..following are the steps involved in this….
 The first step is to identify the weak and strong incumbents. Weak
incumbents are those whose skills falls short of their job requirements. Strong
incumbents are those whose skills far exceed their job requirements.
 The second step is to set above anomalies. In case of weak incumbents this
can be done by-
 assigning difficult parts of their jobs to others,
 improving them through short term training and
 replacing them by individuals.
In case of strong incumbents the anomaly may be set right by giving them more
skilled and difficult jobs.
 The final step is to think of persons who can be given additional
charge of post falling unexpected vacant due to sudden death,
resignation or transfer of the original incumbent.
 LONG TERM MANPOWER PLANNING
 This planning is done to find a proper match between the future jobs and
their future incumbents. The steps that are involved in this planning are as
follow.
1. The first step is to determine the requirements of manpower for the
particular period. This is done by making forecasts.

 For forecasting the number of rank and file workers, it is better first to
make a forecast of sales. On the basis of the sales forecast, we know the
schedule of production for various products and the total quantity required to
be produced during the particular period. When the output of various
department is ascertained, the requirements of manpower to enable the
various departments to attain the required output can be very easily
estimated.
2. The second step is to ascertain the exciting number of rank and file
workers in each section, department and to unit and to compare
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