Staffing

Lesson

Part 1: what staffing is, its steps, why it matters, and recruitment with its sources.

In this lesson you will

Explain the steps in the staffing process and why staffing matters
Compare internal and external sources of recruitment with their merits and demerits

Part 1 at a glance

Concept

What is staffing?

Staffing is filling, and keeping filled, the positions in the organisation structure with suitable people.

Table of what staffing involves, with an imagined scientific-instruments firm's examples
Staffing means…	Imagined example: a scientific-instruments firm in Ambala
Finding how many people are needed	Ten lab technicians for a new line
Getting suitable people	Advertising, testing and interviewing
Placing and training them	Each technician trained on the firm's gauges
Keeping posts filled	Replacing those who retire or are promoted

Diagram

The staffing process.

Staffing follows eight steps.