STAFFING — Definition, Nature & Importance | MYMCQHUB
DEFINITION OF STAFFING
Human resource is a very broad term with which an organisation, or other human system describes the combination of traditionally administrative personnel functions with acquisition and application of skills, knowledge and experience, employee relations and resource planning at various levels.
Human Resource Management (HRM) is the strategic and coherent approach to the management of an organisation’s most valued assets — the people working there who individually and collectively contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the business. Human resource management’s objective, on the other hand, is to maximize the return on investment from the organisation’s human capital and minimize financial risk. It is the responsibility of human resource managers in a corporate context to conduct these activities in an effective, legal, fair, and consistent manner.
In an organisation, different people come together to work for a single organisational goal. Needless to say, coming from varied backgrounds, the mindsets, values, ethics, skills, behavioral patterns, etc., of these people are bound to be different. Due to this, one of the biggest challenges and responsibilities for a manger becomes top handle such a group of varied people. Taking them all as just human resources also, the “human” concept is still there.
Different people in the same teams have different thinking and working pattern. The difference increases more when it comes to different departments and their heads. The challenge increases manifold if the interaction has to be between the members of varied teams. Here comes the roleof coordination.
Need and Importance of Staffing
1. Obtaining Competent Personnel: Proper staffing helps in discovering and obtaining competent personnel for various jobs.
2. High Performance: Proper staffing ensures higher performance by putting right person on the right job.
3. Continuous Growth: Proper staffing ensures continuous survival and growth of the enterprise through succession planning for managers.
4. Optimum Utilization of Human Resources: It prevents underutilizationof personnel and high labour costs by avoiding over-staffing. It also avoids disruption of work by indicating in advance the shortages of personnel.
5. Improves Job Satisfaction: It improves job satisfaction and morale of employee through objective assessment and fair reward of their contribution.
Functions of Staffing
The functions of staffing are:
• manpower planning
• development
• fixing the employment standards
• sources
• selection and placement
• training
Other functions like co-ordination, promotion, transfer, record maintenance of employees, rating of employees, motivation etc.
Process of Staffing
The process of staffing involves following steps:
• Planning: It includes the estimation of the number of staff members required in the company depending upon its size and policies.
• Recruitment and selection: It deals with the selection of the qualified applicants to fill the jobs in the organisation.
A standard procedure is followed while selecting the staff members.
• Training and development: It is concerned with providing training to new staff members as well as the existing staff members to increase the work efficiency.
• Performance operation: It is about the assessment of the work performed by the staff members in an organisation, a standard should be fixed in order to evaluate their efficiency.
