What do you mean by staffing? Explain its elements.

Staffing means appointing competent persons according to the importance of the post in the organisation. In other words, all the activities undertaken to establish coordination between the post and the individual come under staffing.
Elements: In the modem form of staffing, following three elements are included:

(i) Recruitment: Recruitment means the process under which different sources for future employees are searched for, and they are motivated to apply by sending application-forms for their selection in the organisation. In this process, effort is made to receive maximum number of application-forms. That is why it is known as a positive process.

(ii) Selection: Selection means to select pre-determined number of able applicants from the pool of applicants with the help of various tests. Its nature is negative because in this, effort is made to reduce the number of applications.

(iii) Training: Training is a process through which effort is made to increase efficiency in the employees for a particular job, so that their knowledge and skill both are increased.