ABFM CAIIB notes – Unit 4

UNIT 4 – Staffing

Meaning of Staffing

Staffing refers to the continuous process of finding, selecting, evaluating, and developing a working relationship with current or future employees. The main goal of staffing is to fill the various roles within the company with suitable candidates.

Functions of Staffing

1. Obtaining qualified individuals for various job positions.
2. The process of staffing ensures that the most qualified candidates are selected for open positions, which results in greater levels of both productivity and performance.
3. It contributes to the promotion of the most effective and efficient usage of human resources in a variety of ways.
4. The successful recruitment of the right person raises the level of job satisfaction and morale experienced by workers.
5. The process of staffing serves to guarantee that human resources are used more effectively.
6. It secures the organization’s continued existence as well as its continued expansion using development managers.
7. Proper people can be placed in the right jobs with the help of staffing services.

Objectives of Staffing

1. To get the appropriate employees for the appropriate positions.
2. To educate and cultivate the available human resources.
3. To design policies for personnel matters, such as transfer, promotion.
4. To effectively shape the available human resources and to motivate those resources toward better levels of performance.
5. To create a positive and productive working connection between employers and employees as well as between different groups of employees.
6. To ensure that the demands of the workers are met to the workers’ satisfaction so that they will become dedicated and loyal to the organisation.
7. To keep positive human interactions in place in order to foster strong morale among the workforces.

Nature of Staffing