Management Function: Staffing

Human resource management (HRM), or staffing, is the management function devoted to acquiring, training, appraising, and compensating employees. In effect, all managers are human resource managers, although human resource specialists may perform some of these activities in large organizations. Solid HRM practices can mold a company's workforce into a motivated and committed team capable of managing change effectively and achieving the organizational objectives.

Understanding the fundamentals of HRM can help any manager lead more effectively. Every manager should understand the following three principles:

• All managers are human resource managers.

• Employees are much more important assets than buildings or equipment; good employees give a company the competitive edge.

• Human resource management is a matching process; it must match the needs of the organization with the needs of the employee.

Main Objective of Staffing

1. To understand all function of in an organization

2. To understand manpower planning so that people are available at right time at a right place

3. To understand issues related to job analysis and to overcome the problem

Factors affecting staffing

1. Rivalry of human resources- ample supply of unskilled workers then qualified person

2. Legal factors- provisions are there relating to reservations for physically handicap person or legal provisions affects the staffing policy of an organization

3. Socio-cultural factors- employment of women for job involving physical exertion is usually avoided

4. External influences- employers have to face pressure from political parties

References

https://www.slideshare.net/sanchitgangar/staffing-management

https://www.cliffsnotes.com/study-guides/principles-of-management/staffing-and-human-resource-management/staffing-as-a-management-function