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Discussion 1: Discuss Staffing Models and Strategies

 

Instructions

Initial Post

For your initial post, discuss one of the Staffing Models and Strategies and their application to the workplace. Your initial post should be a fully developed essay with formal definitions of each term used, as well as proper APA citations. Cite the textbook using proper APA 7 citations.

Notes and Suggestions:

· Support your posts with citations to the textbook. Personal experiences that are relevant and on-point can be made in follow-up posts after your initial post.

· Use classmates' names and note the discussion topic in your posts when responding. 

· Respond early in the week to generate a collaborative experience.

· See the rubric below for grading threaded discussions:

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Staffing Organizations

Chapter 1:

Staffing Models and Strategy

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Staffing Models and Strategy 1

The Nature of Staffing

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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

Scope of human capital

An average organization’s employee cost (wages or salaries and benefits) is over 22% of its total revenue

Organizations that capitalize on human capital have a strategic advantage over their competitors

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The Nature of Staffing

Definition

“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

Organizational effectiveness

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Staffing Models and Strategy 2

Staffing Models

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Exhibit 1.2: Staffing Quantity

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Exhibit 1.3: Person-Job Match

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Concepts: Person-Job Match Model

Jobs are characterized by their requirements and rewards

Individuals are characterized via qualifications (KSAOS) and motivation

These concepts are not new or faddish, this is an enduring model of staffing

Matching process involves dual match

KSAOs to requirements

Motivation to rewards

Job requirements expressed in terms of

Tasks involved

KSAOs necessary for performance of tasks

Job requirements often extend beyond task and KSAO requirements

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Exhibit 1.4: Person-Organization Match

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Concepts: Person-Organization Match Model

Organizational culture and values

Norms of desirable attitudes and behaviors for employees

New job duties

Tasks that may be added to target job over time

“And other duties as assigned . . . “

Multiple jobs

Flexibility concerns - Hiring people who could perform multiple jobs

Future jobs

Long-term matches during employment relationship

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Exhibit 1.5: Staffing System Components

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Components of Staffing Organizations Model 1

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, 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

Core staffing activities

Recruitment

Selection

Employment

Staffing and retention system management

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Staffing Models and Strategy 3

Staffing Strategy

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Strategic Staffing Decisions: Staffing Levels 1

Acquire or develop talent

Acquire: employees who are ready to “hit the ground running”

Develop: employees who need development to perform their jobs

Hire yourself or outsource:

Hire yourself: Use in-house staffing function

Outsource: Hire an external vendor for hiring

External or internal hiring

External hiring: Focus on using an external labor market for job openings

Internal hiring: Promotion and transfer from within

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Strategic Staffing Decisions: Staffing Levels 2

Core or flexible workforce

Core workforce: regular workers attached to the company for long periods

Flexible workforce: temporary employees or independent contractors

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

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Strategic Staffing Decisions: Staffing Levels 3

Attract or relocate

Attract: transfer or relocate employees to existing locations

Relocate: locate facilities where potential applicants are

Overstaff or understaff

Overstaff: have slightly more staff than needed as a buffer

Understaff: have slightly fewer staff than needed to save costs

Short- or long-term focus

Short-term: address and focus on immediate needs

Long-term: focus on future needs

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Strategic Staffing Decisions: Staffing Quality

Person/Job or Person/Organization match

Person-job: selection focused on one job’s task requirements

Person-organization: focus on broader competencies and values

Specific or general KSAOs

Specific: fine-tuned KSAOs that address task-oriented skills

General: broad KSAOs that relate to many broad skills

Exceptional or acceptable workforce quality

Exceptional: hire the best possible candidates at high cost

Acceptable: reduce costs with willingness to hire less qualified candidates

Active or passive diversity

Active: policies go beyond eliminating discrimination, and include specialized recruiting, training, and development to address diversity

Passive: eliminate discrimination, and then let diversity happen naturally

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Staffing Models and Strategy 4

Ethical Issues

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Exhibit 1.8: Suggestions for Ethical Staffing Practice

Represent the organization’s interests.

Beware of conflicts of interest.

Remember the job applicant.

Follow staffing policies and procedures.

Know and follow the law.

Consult professional codes of conduct.

Shape effective practice with research results.

Seek ethics advice.

Be aware of an organization’s ethical climate/culture

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Ethical Issues in Staffing

Issue 1

As a staffing professional in the human resources department or as the hiring manager of a work unit, explain why it is so important to represent the organization’s interests, and what are some possible consequences of not doing so?

Issue 2

One of the strategic staffing choices is whether to pursue workforce diversity actively or passively. First suggest some ethical reasons for the active pursuit of diversity, and then suggest some ethical reasons for a more passive approach.

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