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What is Staffing?

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For a very good working of an organization, the steps are needed to be taken right from the starting. Great emphasis should be given on the structure of an organization, while carrying out the designing process of an organization. The process that involves the manning of an organization is referred to as the staffing. There is no life to the activities of an organization but then also the organization is manned with the help of the humans.

The real and exact meaning of the word staffing refers to the fitting of the people to the various jobs or the positions and vice versa. In this process, first a man is approved, followed by the approval of the job. One very important point that is very important to be remembered here for the process of the staffing is that the main focus is not on to how to find a suitable person for a certain job but the major point on which great emphasis is given involves how to fit a person into a certain job.

Staffing generally includes the filling of the various work positions and the maintenance of these positions that are generally required overtime and fully manned by the competent people. In this process, the various people are invited, then choices are made and then the selected one’s are fixed with the responsibility of the work and doing this again and again whenever required in a well maintained manner also forms a very critical and an essential part of the process of the staffing.

Staffing sometimes has to be done in the nature of the owners, the promoters etc. and that too much ahead of the structure of the organization and the main reason behind carrying out the process of the staffing here is that the formation of the business and the structure of the building is a human activity.

Basic features of the Human Resource
1. Not at all a standardized resource.
2. Involves some degree of the expectations and the expected results.
3. Presence of the uncertainty factor.
4. Humans involve the rationality and the various perspectives of the thinking and doing things.
5. Emotions form a very major part.
6. Involves the use of the mental equipment intelligence.
7. Ability to react differently at different times depending on the situations or the conditions that arise during an activity.
8. Possess the properties that are very essential for leading any team etc.
9. Supported by a nature that likes to live with the companions.
10. The team spirit is lacking.
11. Availability of the knowledge, the skills, the values, the experience etc.

This article has been written by KJ Singh a MBA Graduate from a prestigious Business School In India
Article Published:July 7, 2011

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