Management Function

What Do You Already Know?

Write TRUE if the statement is correct and
FALSE if not.
1. Staffing is just determing the number of
people required in the organization.
2. Determining the size and categories of
personnel required is called human
resource planning.
3. Staffing is a one-time process as people
have to be appointed only once.
4. Staffing includes human resources
management.
5. The management function which helps in
getting the right persons for the
organization and ensuring that they stick
to the organization is called staffing.

UNLOCKING DIFFICULTIES

Man power
planning

Job Analysis

-estimating the
manpower
requirement
-determining the
qualifications,
skills and
experience
required for
various categories
of employees

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Recruitment

Selection

Placement

-finding and
attracting suitable
applicants
-choosing the most
suitable applicants

Induction

-making the selected

candidates to join
the specific job
position

-acquainting new
employee

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Training and
development

Performance
Appraisal

-assessing the quality

of performance

Compensation

Promotion

Transfer

-determining the
salary and incentives
-advancemet to higher
level or position
-assigning different job
with the same rank
and pay

-improving the
knowledge and skills

Meaning of Staffing
The term
Staffing relates
to the
recruitment,
selection,
development,
training and
compensation of
the managerial
personnel

Meaning of Staffing

It refers to the managerial

function of employing and
developing human resources for
carrying out various managerial
and non- managerial activities in
an organization.

It involves determining the

manpower requirement and the
methods of recruiting, selecting,
training and developing the
people for various positions
created in the organization.
It comes as a third step next to
planning and organizing in a
newly created enterprise, but in
an ongoing enterprise staffing
process is continuous.

NATURE OF STAFFING

Staffing function is an integral

part of human resource
management, and its wider sense,
it includes the activities of
determining the remuneration of
workers, appraising their
performance, and deciding on
their promotion, transfers, etc.

NATURE OF STAFFING

1. People Centered

2. Responsibility
of Every Manager

3.Human Skills

4. Continuous
Function

NATURE OF STAFFING

a)
b)
c)

1. People centered.
Classification of personnel
Blue collar workers
Managerial and non magerial
personnel
Professionals

NATURE OF STAFFING

2. Responsibility of Every Manager

Every manager is continuously engaged in
performing the staffing function.
It is performed by the managers at all levels,
but it does not mean that the managers at
different levels are relieved of the
responsibility concerned with staffing.
The personnel Department is established to
provide assistance to the managers in
performing the staffing function. Thus every
manager has to share the responsibility.

NATURE OF STAFFING

3. Human Skills
Every manager should use
human relation skill in providing
guidance and training to the
subordinates. Human Relation
Skills are also required in
performance appraisal, transfer
and promotion of subordinates.

NATURE OF STAFFING

4. Continuous
Function

IMPORTANCE
OF STAFFING

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1. Helps getting right people for the
right job at the right time.

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2.Contributes to improved organizational
productivity.
*Through proper selection the organization gets quality
workers, and through proper training the performances level
of workers can be improved.

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3. Provides job satisfaction to the
employees keeping their morale high.
*With proper training and development
programmes their efficiency improves and they feel
assured of their career advancement

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4. Maintains harmony in the organization
*Individuals are not just recruited and selected but
their performance is regulary appraised and
promotions made on merit, thus fosters harmony
and peace in the organization.

How Do You Apply What

You Have Learned?

Do the activitiy
on page 227,
Make me a
cheeze.
Organizing your
ideas on staffing
function through
the use of a
graphic
organizer.

How much have you

learned?
Directions: Write brief answers to the following
questions

1.
2.
3.
4.

Explain the meaning of the term

Staffing?
State the nature of staffing.
Explain the importance of staffing.
List down the various steps involved in
the staffing process.

Thank you very much for an

attentive and active
participation!

Ma. Christina Encinas