STAFFING AND

IT'S NATURE
 STAFFING
 Staffing is related to performing a
set of activities which aim at
inviting, selecting, placing and
retaining individuals at various jobs
to achieve the organisational goals.
 It involves determining the need
for people at various organisational
posts, appointing and retaining
them at those posts by training and
developing their abilities and skills.
This is done by performing a
number of functions like
manpower planning,
recruitment, selection, training
and development, performance
appraisal, compensation and
maintenance.
Nature of Staffing
 Management function

 Staffingis a management function

that appoints people at different
positions to run the organizations.
While organizing creates
departments and positions, staffing
ensures that people with desired
skills and abilities occupy these
positions to contribute to
organisational goals.
Pervasive function
 People are the most important asset
that convert inputs into outputs.
People are appointed at all levels
(top, middle, low) in all functional
areas (production, finance,
marketing, personnel).
 Staffingensures that right persons
are appointed at the right job so
that organisation can efficiently
achieve its objectives.
Part of human resource
management
 Staffing is an important part of human
resource management. Human resource
management ensures that competent
people perform organisational
activities.
 It deals with the set of organisational
activities that attract, develop and
maintain an effective workforce.
 The requirements of human resource
management are filled through staffing
as staffing appoints people at the
desired jobs.
 Deals with active resource:
 Staffingdeals with the most
important resource (people) that
converts inactive resources (raw
materials) into productive outputs. It
deals with the live resource (people)
without whom resources would
remain as resources only. They will
not be converted into outputs.
Attached with personnel
department
 Functions of staffing; recruitment, selection, training
and appraisal of subordinates of all departments
(production, marketing etc.) are performed by
managers at all levels as all departments need people
to function.
 In performing these functions, managers seek
assistance of the personnel department. Personnel
department is a service department that assists line
managers in performing the staffing function.
 Continuous function
 Staffing is a continuous managerial
function. People keep leaving and
joining the organisations.
Departments and organisations grow
and, therefore, need for people keeps
arising.
 Hiring,training and compensating
people (staffing) are, therefore,
continuously performed by managers.
 Need for Staffing

 Staffing
provides manpower to the
organisation. In the changing,
dynamic environment where
organisational size is increasing,
technology is developing and
human behaviour is becoming
complex, staffing function has
become important.
 Needfor staffing explains the
objectives of staffing.