DEFINITION

staffing is defined by Heneman and judge in STAFFING ORGANIZATION (5TH edition) as: it is a process of acquiring, deploying and

retaining a workforce of sufficient quality and quantity to create positive impact on organization's effectiveness.

DEFINITION EXPLAINED

• Acquisition or recruitment refers to finding and attracting capable elements for employment.

• Deployment involves decision about how these recruited candidates are allocated to the specific roles.

• Retaining means to decrease the turn over rate of organization.

STEPS INVOLVED

• RECRUITMENT

• SELECTION

• PLACEMENT AND ORIENTATION

• TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT

DEFINITION

• According to Edwin Flippo:

"it is a process of searching for perspective employees and stimulating them to apply for job in the organiztion".

RECRUITMENT PROCESS

• This process begin when new recruits are sought and ends when their applications are submitted.

• In this process maximum number of employees are motivated to apply for the job so that best employee can be selected

INTERNAL SOURCES OF RECRUITMENT

• Promotions

• Transfers

• Internal notification (Advertisement)

EXTERNAL SOURCES

• Campus interview

• Press advertisement

• Placement consultants

• Employment exchanges

• contractors

SELECTION

SELECTION

• Selection is a very important step in hiring procss.

• It refers to choosing most suitable candidate to fill the vacant job position.

• Steps involved are; analysing applications, conducting interviews, any necessory test, backgroung investigation, decision to hire or not.........

PLACEMENT AND ORIENTATION

• Placement refers to occupying post by a candidate for which he is selected after recieving appointment latter.

• Orientation refers to introducing new employee to the already existing employees. Large organizations arrange orientation programmes for this purpose.

Training

• It is a short term process utilizing a systemic and organized procedure by which non managerial personnel learn technical knowledge and skills for a definite purpose.

• In large organizations it is performed by separate Human Resource Deparment.

• it motivate employee.

• it increase the effeciency of organization.

DEVELOPMENT

• It is a long term educational process utilizing organized and systemic procedure by which managerial staff learn conceptual and theoritical knowledge for general purpose.