All About Staffing
I. Nature of Staffing
Staffing is an organization-wide function, comparable to other functions such as marketing, focused on solving problems and adding value with a company's human, social, and intellectual capital. Staffing includes attracting and hiring talented people, as well as developing, appraising, and rewarding them through performance management and training programs. Staffing has a heavy legal emphasis, since employment and labor laws significantly impact both employee and employer rights and responsibilities.
Staffing is the process of recruiting, selecting and training of personnel. It means putting the right men on the right jobs.
All business organizations should focus their attention and be concerned about the effectiveness and efficiency of their employees specially their managers. The function of staffing has to do with manning an organization structure so that it can completely operate in the present and in the future.
II. Recruitment
Recruitment is the process of encouraging, inducing or influencing applicants to apply for a certain vacant position. Whenever there are vacancies, it is necessary to find a person to fill those vacancies. Some organizations do not wait until the vacancy arises, but they anticipate such vacancies and new openings in the short and long run and thus plan for future needs.
Steps in Recruitment
1. Study the different jobs in the company and writing the job description and specification.
2. Requisition for new employee.
3. Recruiting qualified applicants.
4. Reception of applicants.
5. Application form.
6. Testing.
7. Checking the applicant's work experiences, school records and personal references.
8. Interview.
9. Matching the appli ...