STAFFING

STRATEGY

LECTURE 13
B Y: D R M A R R I A H A S S A N
STAFFING

• Staffing involvesd “finding right person for the right job at the right time with right
qualification”
IMPORTANCE OF STAFFING?

• Filling the vacant job

• Right combination
• Growth of enterprise
• Helps in competing
• Optimum utilization of resources
• Employee satisfaction
FEW OTHER FACTORS:
STAFFING PROCESS:

• It is the fucntion of an HR department independantly and interdepandantly working with rest of

the organization. HR looks for more efficient manangement and care giving to the employees
of an organization.
STEP 1: ESTIMATING MANPOWER

Estimating
Manpower

Workload Workforce Comparison

STEP 2: RECRUITMENT

• Attracting people to apply to your organization.

• Advertising your job ad to all possible attention graber points like newspaper, FB, portal on
webiste, on the walls
STEP 3: SELECTION

• It’s a negative process. As we might receive 100’s of application and we opt for not more than
20 people. Hence we are rejecting ore people that we are accepting.
STEP 3: SELECTION

• It’s a negative process. As we

might receive 100’s of
application and we opt for not
more than 20
people. Hence
hence, we are rejecting more people
Than we are accepting.
STEP 4: PLACEMENT AND
ORIENTATION

New employees meet

and visit existing
employees, get to
know work
procedures. Who is
boss? where is
photocopier? tea
coffe stalls?? etc.
STEP 5: TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT

• Regular training avoids

employee from getting old tact
man.
STEP 6: PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL

• Feedback
• ACRs
STEP 7: COMPENSATION
STEP 8: PROMOTION AND CAREER
PLANNING
STRATEGIC STAFFING DECISION

Staffing strategy requires making key decisions about the acquisition, deployment, and retention
of the organization’s workforce. Thirteen such decisions are identified.
 WHAT IT DOES?
• Thirteen decsion are categorized into 2 main groups including staffing level and staffing
quality

Staffing
Level

Strategic
Staffing

Staffing
Quality
STAFING LEVEL

Acquire or
Hire yourself External or
Develop
or outsource internal hiring
Talent

Core or
National or
flexible Hire or retain
Global
workforce

Overstaffing
Attract or Short or Long
or
Relocate term focus
Understaffing
NATIONAL OR GLOBAL

• Offshoring vs outsourcing? (Designed by Apple in California assembled in China).

https://www.cultofmac.com/734615/mac-pro-factory-in-texas-exposes-weakness-of-us-manufact
uring/
• Why organizations are engaged in both overseas outsourcing and Offshoring? What are the 3
forces encouraging this trend? (Hint: find answer on page 50 last para)
ATTRACT OR RELOCATE

• Either let employees reach us or relocate our operations to a place where labor is excessivly
available and cheap.
STAFFING QUALITY

Active or
Passive
Diversity

Exceptiona Person/Job

SQ
l or or
Acceptable Person/Or
Workforce ganization
Quality Match

Specific or
General
KSAOs