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Notes 3. Staffing is a continuous activity : This is because staffing function continues throughout the
life of an organization due to the transfers and promotions that take place.
4. The basis of staffing function is efficient management of personnels : Human resources can
be efficiently managed by a system or proper procedure, that is, recruitment, selection, placement
training and development, providing remuneration, etc.
5. Staffing helps in placing right men at the right job : It can be done effectively through proper
recruitment procedures and then finally selecting the most suitable candidate as per the job
requirements.
6. Staffing is performed by an managers : depending upon the nature of business, size of the
company, qualifications and skills of managers, etc. In small companies, the top management
generally performs this function. In medium and small scale enterprise, it is performed especially
by the personnel department of that concern.

9.6 Process of Staffing

1. Manpower requirements : The very first step in staffing is to plan the manpower inventory
required by a concern in order to match them with the job requirements and demands. Therefore,
it involves forecasting and determining the future manpower needs of the concern.
2. Recruitment : Once the requirements are notified, the concern invites and solicits applications
according to the invitations made to the desirable candidates.
3. Selection : This is the screening step of staffing in which the solicited applications are screened
out and suitable candidates are appointed as per the requirements.
4. Orientation and Placement : Once screening takes place, the appointed candidates are made
familiar to the work units and work environment through the orientation programmes. placement
takes place by putting right man on the right job.
5. Training and Development : Training is a part of incentives given to the workers in order to
develop and grow then within the concern. Training is generally given according to the nature
of activities and scope of expansion in it. Along with it, the workers are developed by providing
them extra benefits of indepth knowledge of their functional areas. Development also includes
giving them key and important jobsas a test or examination in order to analyse their
performances.
6. Remuneration : It is a kind of compensation provided monetarily to the employees for their
work performances. This is given according to the nature of job skilled or unskilled, physical or
mental, etc. Remuneration forms an important monetary incentive for the employees.
7. Performance Evaluation : In order to keep a track or record of the behaviour, attitudes as well
as opinions of the workers towards their jobs. For this regular assessment is done to evaluate
and supervise different work units in a concern. It is basically concerning to know the
development cycle and growth patterns of the employees in a concern.
8. Promotion and transfer : Promotion is said to be a non-monetary incentive in which the worker
is shifted from a higher job demanding bigger responsibilities as well shifting the workers and
transferring them to different work units and branches of the same organization.

The managerial function of staffing involves manning the organization structure through
proper and effective selection, appraisal and development of the personnels to fill the
roles assigned to the employers/workforce.

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