Chapter 1 - Staffing Models and Strategy
Chapter 1 - Staffing Models and Strategy
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Learning Objectives:
1. Characteristics of staffing
2. Staffing models
3. Staffing strategy
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What staffing is?
“Staffing is the process of acquiring, deploying, and
retaining a workforce of sufficient quantity and quality
to create positive impacts on the organization’s
effectiveness.”
– Implications of definition
– Acquire, deploy, retain
– Staffing as a process or system
– Quantity and quality issues
– Organization effectiveness
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Staffing Models
Staffing Quantity: Levels
Staffing Organizations
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Staffing Quantity: Levels
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Staffing Quality: Person/Job Match
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Staffing Quality: Person/Organization Match
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Staffing System Components
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Staffing Organizations
• Organizational strategy
– Mission and vision
– Goals and objectives
• HR strategy
– Involves key decisions about size and type of workforce to be
acquired / trained / managed / rewarded / retained
– May flow from organizational strategy and may also directly
influence formulation of organization strategy
• Staffing strategy
– An outgrowth of the interplay between organization and HR
strategy
– Involves key decisions regarding acquisition, deployment,
and retention of organization’s workforce
– Guide development of recruitment, selection, and
employment programs
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• Support activities
– Serve as foundation for conduct of core staffing activities
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What is Staffing Strategy?
– Requires making key decisions about acquisition,
deployment, and retention of a company’s workforce
• Involves making 13 key decisions
• Decisions focus on two areas:
a. Staffing levels
b. Staffing quality
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Strategic Staffing Decisions
Staffing Levels Staffing Quality
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