MEANING OF STAFFING
Staffing is a systematic approach to the problem of selecting, training, motivating and retaining professional and nonprofessional personnel in any organization. It involves manpower planning to have the right person in the right place and avoid ‘square peg in round hole”.
Staffing is a logical operation that consists of several interdependent actions as given below.
1. Identify the type and amount of services needed by agency client
2. Determining the personal categories that have the knowledge and the skills to perform needed service measures.
3. Predicting the number of personnel in each job category that will be needed to meet and anticipated service demands.
4. Obtaining, budgeted positions for the number in each job category needed to service for the expected types and number of client.
5. Recruiting personnel to fill available positions.
6. Selecting and appointing personnel from suitable applicants.
7. Combining personal into desired configurations by unit and shift.
8. Orienting personnel to fulfill assigned responsibilities.
9. Assigning responsibilities for client services to available personnel.
MANPOWER PLANNING
Manpower planning may be defined as a strategy for the accusation, utilization, improvement and preservation of the human resources of