Staffing
Staffing
1. Staffing means obtaining utilising and maintaining satisfactory and satisfied workforce
2. Importance of staffing
• It helps in obtaining competent personal for various jobs
• It ensures higher performance by putting the right person on the right job.
• It ensures continuous survival and growth of business through succession planning
• It ensures optimum utilisation of human resource by indicating the surplus and shortage of personal
• It improves job satisfaction and moral of employee through training and promotion
3. Steps of staffing
• Estimation of manpower requirement It can be done by workload analysis(Number of personal required to do the job) and workforce analysis(Number of
personal available)
• Recruitment- It means Searching for qualified people and stimulating dam to apply for the jobs in the organisation
• Selection – it means choosing the best candidate for the job among the candidates developed at the stage of recruitment
• Placement and orientation- Placement means that employee occupies the position for which he has been selected, while orientation means introducing the
selected employee to other employees and familiarising him with the rules and policies of the organisation
• Training and development- training means improving scale and knowledge of employees to do the current job While development means acquiring scales and
competence for handling higher job in the future
• Performance appraisal- It means evaluating an employee’s performance as against the predetermined standards
• Career planning and promotion- It includes all activities associated with promotion of employee
• Compensation – it refers to all form of pay or reward to employees
4. Recruitment
• Transfer- It means shifting of employee from one job to another at the same level of authority and responsibility
• Promotion refers to shifting of employees from one job position to another with higher level of authority
- Merits of internal recruitment The merits of internal
Employees are motivated due to promotion in the organisation All vacancies can be felt through internal source
Simplify the process of selection as candidate are already known Spirit of competition, is hampered as employee expert automatic promotion
by seniority
No need of induction training, as employees are already familiar It reduced scope of fresh talent
Adjustment of surplus staff in the department, where there is a shortage of there is limited choice of candidates
staff
Economical as compared to external source of recruitment