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Chapter 01
Chapter 01
Chapter 1:
Staffing Models and Strategy
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The Big Picture
• Organizations are combinations of physical, financial, and
human capital
• Human capital
• Knowledge, skills and abilities of people
• Their motivation to do the job
• Marriott
• Social media to enhance discussions of employment brand
• Use of online games to build interest/awareness
• Enterprise Rent-A-Car
• Use a strong internal labor market
• Performance evaluation is used for placement
• Multiple jobs
• Flexibility concerns - Hiring people who could perform multiple jobs
• Future jobs
• Long-term matches during employment relationship
• HR strategy
• Involves key decisions about size and type of workforce to be acquired,
trained, managed, rewarded, and retained
• Flows from organizational strategy
• Directly influences 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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Components of Staffing Organizations Model 2
• Support activities
• Addressing the social and legal environment
• Diversity and Inclusion
• Planning
• Job analysis
• Serve as foundation for conduct of core staffing activities
• Hire or retain
• Hire: accept turnover rates and hire frequently
• Retain: extra efforts to increase employee retention
• National or global
• National: keeping all organizational functions in the home country
• Global: locating services and production in multiple areas
• Overstaff or understaff
• Overstaff: have slightly more staff than needed as a buffer
• Understaff: have slightly fewer staff than needed to save costs