Question

Explain the following term/concept:

Staffing

Answer 1

• Staffing is the process of attracting, recruiting, selecting, placing, appraising, remunerating, developing and retaining the best workforce.
• Overall growth and success of every venture is based on appropriateness of staffing function.
• It is very challenging for organization to focus on best utilization of workforce by using their talents and skills, retaining them and arranging training and development programmes. The function emphasizes managing human and not material or financial resources.
• The need of staffing arises since the initial period of organization. Due to promotion, transfer, business expansion, retirement, resignation, accidents, death of employee etc. vacancies are created in organization.
• In this context, staffing function plays very important role in organization. The right person at right job with right pay is the basic principle of staffing.