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Unit 5: Library Staffing

Can hurt employee morale and loyalty Notes
May have to pay more for the job
Current organization members may fight new ideas

Self Assessment

Fill in the blanks:
12. ………………… is the activity that links the employers and the job seekers.

13. ……………. needs are those movements in personnel, which an organization can predict
by studying trends in internal and external environment.
14. An ………… recruitment strategy is one which a human resources department will
systematically search the employee pool outside its own employees to fill positions.
15. ………………….. is also known as employee leasing activity.

5.5 Problems of Staffing

Due to the fact that people are dynamic in nature, therefore they have to be handled tactfully.
Staffing involves administering a social system which is very complex. Over the years staffing
function has become more and more complex. It is time consuming, frustrating and often
complicated, due to some of the reasons given below:
1. Increasing Government Regulations Regarding Employment Practices (Recruitment,
Resignation, Dismissal, Retirement, etc.) has made the staffing pattern very complex.
2. Increasing Staff Concern for Working Conditions and Benefits may be a result of continuous
pressure by the union or bargaining with the unions for these.
3. Insufficient Budget might disturb the staffing pattern as it can lead to vacancies for a
particular position and retrenchments also.

4. Rampant downsizing of Organization (Restructuring) by having few newer appointments
and faster redundancies takes place due to restructuring of the parent body including that
of a library.
5. Increasing complexity of organization due to rapid advancement in information technology,
Global competition, etc. has made it difficult for the mangers to manage the organization.

Notes A company restructures its operations or structure by cutting costs, such as payroll,
or reducing its size through the sale of assets. This is often seen as necessary when the
current situation at a company is one that may lead to its collapse.

Self Assessment

Fill in the blanks:

16. …………………. might disturb the staffing pattern as it can lead to vacancies for a particular
position and retrenchments also.
17. …………………. involves administering a social system which is very complex.

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