WORKSHEET ON STAFFING

Name of Student
Name of School
Subject
Unit
Date & Time of Completion
2012
Sl.No. Questions Marks

1. Give the meaning of ‘orientation’ as a step in the process of ‘Staffing’. 1

2. Manu, a Chief Manager in a company using highly sophisticated machines 4
and equipments, wants that every employee should be fully trained before
using the machines and equipments. Suggest and describe the best method
of training that Manu can use for training the employees.
2013
3. Define “Recruitment”. 1
4. Nishant, the director of a garments company, is planning to manufacture 5
bags for the utilization of waste material from one of his garment units. He
has decided that thismanufacturing unit will be set-up in a rural area of
Orissa where people have very few job-opportunities and labour is
available at very low rates. He has also thought of giving equal
opportunities to men and women. For this he wants four different heads
for Sales, Account, Purchase and Production. He gives an advertisement
and shortlists ten candidates per post after conducting different selection-
tests.
(i) Identify and state the next three steps for choosing the best candidate
out of the candidates short-listed.
(ii) Also identify two values which Nishant wants to communicate to the
society by setting up this manufacturing unit.
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5. Why employees become lethargic when the organisation uses internal 1
sources of recruitment? State.
6. “Recruitment’ is one of the specialized activity performed by human 1
resource management. Mention any two other specialized activities of
human resource management.
7. How is training of employees beneficial for the organisation? State by 4
giving any four reasons.
2015
8. Name and define the process that helps in finding possible candidates for 1
a job or a function..
9. Mr. Naresh recently completed his M.B.A. from one of the Indian 4
Institutes of Management in Human Resource Management. He has been
appointed as Human Resource Manager in a Truck Manufacturing
Company. The company has 1,500employees and has an expansion plan
in hand that may require additional 500 persons for various types of jobs.
Mr. Naresh has been given the complete charge of the company's Human
Resource Department.
List out the specialized activities that Mr. Naresh is supposed to perform
as the Human Resource Manager of the company.
2016
10. Vinod – The Human Resource Manager, Umesh – The Assistant manager 3
and Ashok – The Marketing Head of Hitashi Enterprises Ltd. decided to
leave the company. The Chief Executive Officer of the company called
the Human Resource Manager, Vinod and requested him to fill-up the
vacancies before leaving the organization. Vinod suggested that his
subordinate Rajesh is very competent and trustworthy. If he could be
moved up in the hierarehy, he would do the needful. The Chief Executive
Officer agreed for the same. Rajesh contacted ‘Zenith Recruiters’ who
 advertised for the post of marketing head for ‘Hitashi Enterprises Ltd.’.
They were able to recruit a suitable candidate for the company. Umesh’s
vacancy was filled-up by screening the database of unsolicited
applications lying in the office.
(a) Name the internal/external sources of recruitment used by ‘Hitashi
Enterprises Ltd.’ to fill-up the above stated vacancies.
(b) Also, state any one merit of each of the above identified source of
recruitment.
2017
11. Why is 'employment interview' conducted in the process of selection? 1
12. Explain briefly 'transfers' and 'promotions' as internal sources of 4
recruitment.
2018
13. After passing his secondary school examination, David left the school at 4
the age of 15 years and started getting training under his father. His father,
a renowned electrician, had worked for many companies. He everyday
started accompanying his father on work and watched him carefully while
working. David was a good learner and learnt the techniques of work
quickly. Now his father started passing on the tricks of the trade to David.
With the passage of time David acquired a high level skill and became a
well-known electrician at Indore. Big business-houses started calling him
for electrical -wiring .
(a)Name the method of training discussed in the above para.
(b) State any three benefits which David could get on being trained.
14. There were two vacancies for the post of Assistant Manager in Gyan 6
Electrics Private Ltd. Parth the Human Resources Manager identified one
suitable candidate Vishwas from within the organization and promoted
him to the post of Assistant Manager. For another post, the Manager Parth
took help of a placement agency and selected Saleem. After six months,
Parth observed that Vishwass performance was much better than Saleems
performance though Vishwas was less qualified than Saleem. Hence,
Parth decided that in future he will not make any appointment with the
help of an outside source.
Explain any four reasons on the basis of which Parth would have taken the
above decision.