Staffing
Staffing is a critical organizational function which
consists of the process of acquiring, deploying, and retaining a workforce of
sufficient quantity and quality to create positive impacts on the effectiveness
of the organization.
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A good example to look at in terms of a manager hiring the right man or woman for the right job is the Justin Trudeau's (Canada's Prime Minister) Liberal cabinet. Justin Trudeau is winning high marks for appointing a
federal cabinet that includes Canadians from many walks of life. They include a millionaire businessman, a geoscientist, a
Paralympian and a refugee who fled the Taliban. Half of them are women.
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His finance minister has Master’s degrees in economics and
business administration, has a long and successful Bay Street career as founder
of a company that now employs more than 3,000, and in which his holdings are
reportedly valued at $30 million. He founded a special school for Somali and
Sudanese youth in an African refugee camp in his spare time.
Health Minister Jane Philpott spent a decade practicing
medicine in Africa, raised $4 million towards AIDS treatment and helped found
Ethiopia’s first training program for family medicine. Justice Minister Jody
Wilson-Raybould served as a Crown prosecutor in one of Vancouver’s worst
neighbourhoods, headed a commission overseeing treaty negotiations with First
Nations and has a long and impressive resume of contributions to First Nations
governance. Marc Garneau was the first Canadian astronaut to fly in space.
Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan spent 11 years as a Vancouver cop before serving
with the Canadian Forces in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Afghanistan.
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- Staffing helps in discovering and obtaining competent personnel for various jobs.
- It helps in the optimum utilization of the human resources.
- It helps in developing professionals in every field of organizational activity.
- It helps to improve the quantity and quality of the output by putting the right person on the right job.
- It helps in developing competencies in the organization to face the challenges.
- It helps to improve job satisfaction of the employees and hence their morale.
- It facilitates higher productive performance of the organization by appointing right man for right job.
- It reduces the cost of manpower by eliminating the wastage of the human resources.
- It facilitates growth and diversification activities in the organization.
- It provides for the development of the employees and through them it ensures continuous survival and growth of the organization.
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