Staffing Test - 5

Selection is the process of identifying and choosing the best person out of a number of prospective candidates for a job. In selection process, the rejection is generally more than the selected candidates. Therefore it is called a negative process.

Recruitment refers to the overall process of attracting, selecting and appointing suitable candidates for jobs within an organization.

Training is act of increasing the knowledge and skills of an employee for doing a particular job. So its time perspective is short term.

Induction is the process of welcoming new employee when he joins the company and giving him all necessary information about the organisation so he can start his work happily and quickly.

Objective of selection is to eliminate the unsuitable or less suitable candidates and find out the suitable candidates. It is a negative activity.

Through lecturers/conferences trainees learn processes, procedures etc. So its the method of development of trainee.

Estimating manpower requirement means finding out number and type of employees. Type here means qualification and educational background of people to be recruited.

Recruitment is the process of searching for prospective employees and stimulating them to apply for jobs in an organisation.

The main objective of recruitment is to provide sufficiently large group of qualified candidates.

Through interview employer ask questions from the applicant to test his professional knowledge and applicant  clarify their queries regarding salary posting etc. 

Job Rotation is a management approach in which employees are shifted between two or more assignments or jobs in a planned manner. This is done at regular intervals of time. The objective behind this is to expose them to all verticals of an organization.

It refers to the process of finding possible candidates for a job or a function. It is a positive process. It can be defined as the process of searching for prospective employees and stimulating them to apply for jobs in an organisation.

HRM involves determining the organisation's need of human resources, recruitment and selection of best emloyees, training and development, compensation and reward to the employees. It also deals with liasoning with government and trade unions etc.

Workforce analysis means analysing existing employees already occupying the job positions and how many of them are overburdened or underburdened. After comparing workload analysis and workforce analysis, the business enterprise can know about the understaff or overstaff in organisation.

Staffing ensures higher performance by placing right person on the right job by proper recruitment and selection.

This test is conducted to find out how quickly the candidate can learn new skills and new methods.

Human Resource Management (HRM) is the function within an organization that focuses on the recruitment of, management of, and providing direction for the people who work in an organization.

The very first step in staffing is to plan the manpower inventory required by a concern in order to match them with the job requirements and demands. Therefore, it involves forecasting and determining the future manpower needs of the concern.

Staffing is both line as well as staff activity. Every manager has to perform as line activity like any other function of management. It is a staff activity because it an area of management like marketing management, financial management etc. Thus HRM has wider scope.

Workload analysis means to find out number and type of employees required to perform various jobs designed in organisational structure. The manpower requirement can find out by equating workload analysis to workforce analysis.

Recruitment is the process of identifying the sources for prospective candidates to stimulate them to apply for the jobs in the organisation and there is no rejection in this process.

selection is the process of screening and selecting the suitable candidate. selections always starts where recruitment ends.

Development includes not only the activities of improvement in job performance but all those which improves over all personality of individual. An individual can realise his abilities. It focuses on conceptual and human ideas. Thus development is concerned with personality as well as maturation.

Labour contractors usually keep in touch with the labour in rural areas and villages and whenever vacancy or requirement for labour arises, they arrange the labour at very short notice and charge commission for their services. Thus it is an external source of recruitment.

The performance appraisal is the process of assessing employee performance by way of comparing present performance with already established standards.

Staffing function is the most important mangerial act along with planning, organizing, directing and controlling. The operations of these four functions depend upon the manpower which is available through staffing function.

In small companies, the top management generally performs this function. In medium and small scale enterprise, it is performed especially by the personnel department of that concern.

It is the process of increasing the knowledge, skills and abilities of employees for doing a particular job. It aims to enable the employee to do the job better.

 Publicity is the movement of information to the general public from the media. 

It refers to choosing the most suitable candidate to fill the vacant job position. The selection is done through different tests, interviews etc.

The basic purpose of development is to enable the overall growth of the employees. The duration of development is long. It creates better human beings. Thus we can say it is an ongoing process and includes training.