Question

Explain why staffing is considered as the most important part of 'Human Resource Management.'

Answer 1

Staffing is the most important part of Human Resource Management as it develops and manages the human elements of the enterprise considering their knowledge, skill, creativity, talents and potentials for contributing towards organisational objectives. It functions within the scope of human resource department.

Human Resource Management involves determining the organisation’s need of human resources, recruiting and selecting the best employees, developing, providing compensation and rewarding the employees. It also includes activities related to liaison with government, trade unions, etc. Staffing is the inherent part of Human Resource Management which can be made more clear by analysing this example, when the above stated functions are carried out at small scale in small organisations by every manager, we call it as staffing function and when these functions are performed at large scale in a big organisation, there is a need to create a separate department called human resource department.