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Staffing Strategy

Staffing strategy is the way a company can handle staff in organization that is, related to

employees hiring, recruitment, and retention of employees in other words, it is the process of

identifying and addressing the staffing implications of change. Different type of organization opt

for different type of staffing strategy. Apparently, staffing decisions are among the most

important decisions that nonprofit organizations like a church based soup kitchen make. It is the

type of organization that their employers interact with the volunteers most of the time. As it is in

the case of companies or business entities depend on their personnel to carry out their strategies

and advance their goals, so does nonprofit groups.

Additionally, nonprofit organizations should emulate the same idea like the profitseeking

companies do when they try to do away with challenges of maintaining a solid work force. !o

accomplish all that, a churchbased soup kitchen staffed with volunteers ought to address si"

personnel issues. !o start with, personnel needs should be assessed. Screening of personnel,

selection and hiring of personnel should then follow and lastly orientation of the employees to

the work and activities at #An effective nonprofit manager must try to get more out of the

people he or she has,# wrote $eter %. Drucker in &anaging the 'on$rofit (rganization. At the

end of the day, a churchbased soup kitchen needs employees with social values and loyalty as

the primary goal.

$rofessional baseball team is a public organization that has to cope up with

competition .!hey in most cases prefer team staffing simply because they want the best players.

!hey even go a notch higher by hiring e"pert person .)owever, in this type of organization, the


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employees are not so loyal to the organization. !he professional baseball team due to the fact that

they want to be the best opt to introduce work diversity. !his brings in new employees and

employers. In the current century it if important to capitalize the talents of employees from

diverse backgrounds since their #differences enrich us, e"pand us, and provides us the

competitive edge# *&akower, +-, p. -+.

Small internet startup do re/uire strategic staffing in order to get employees who are up to

task and know what they are supposed to do. !his type of organization normally opt for

academic staffing, in order to get employees who are highly capable and by doing so, the

organization will end up developing and training in house, at the end of it all, they organization

can retain their employees longer.

A lot of organizations do understand the benefits that a longer term approach to staff

planning and strategy can bring. In fact, many actually attempt to develop staffing strategies. 0ig

organizations such as $ublisher of a large daily newspaper in a ma1or city select their staff

carefully since their profession relates to the general public. !herefore, employees who are loyal

and can maintain social image are highly considered. &any at times, the output from the

recruitment is too high and generic. &ore so when they have been rolled to create the wider

perspective.

A police Department is the type of organization that normally out puts academic Staffing

and in order for a person to /ualify for this field, he or she should prove the eligibility through a

competitive e"am. !his means that they employ people basis on eligibility and e"am

performance.


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In a four hundred room 2u"ury )otel, staffing is done based on different /ualities, for

instance, if one has to be hired, he or she should be a person who is capable to relate well will the

public. !hat is to say employees working in such an organization ought to be the ones who have

social ability.

)owever, not all 1obs need to be addressed from a strategic point of view. %or instance, it

is not important to come up with long term staffing plan for a 1ob which can be filled relatively

/uickly from internal sources. %urthermore, coming up with an effective staffing strategies

re/uires a lot of work and resources, hence it is not normally realistic to include it in every level.

!herefore, staffing strategies may be needed in positions that the organization is re/uired to be

proactive and at most responsive.

3hile developing staffing strategies, the organizations should try to keep the plans

separate and distinct. !his is practical since some plans are created to address some specific

issues only. Subse/uently, for strategic staffing to be effective, human resource processes must

be integrated. !he benefit of staffing strategy at the end of it all if that, it helps to improve

organization4s ability to develop and deploy talents that are re/uired to meet future demands.

Also, it ensures that the staff is ad1usted to meet the current business needs, improvement of staff

utilization and finally redeploy employees as organizational needs change. At the end of it all, the

organization4s human resource needs will have been integrated and harmonized.


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3ork 5ited

Jefrey A. Mello; Strategic Human Resource Management 4Edition,

South-estern, !engage "earning


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