Question

Heritage Corporation is engaging in its annual strategic planning meeting. Every year all department heads attend an off-site conference designed to develop strategic plans for the coming year. The senior HR officer at Heritage has asked you for input regarding the staffing needs for a new division being contemplated for the following fiscal year. Discuss in detail the staffing organization model and the staffing support activities that Heritage should use in the development of their personnel needs for the new facility. Discuss the three (3) core staffing activities – recruitment, selection, and employment

Answer 1

The staffing model that Heritage Corporation could use for its strategic planning and for the new division in HR:

HR and Staffing Strategies : There can be supporting activities and core staffing activities.

The supporting activities could be :

1. Legal compliance
2. Planning
3. Job analysis and rewards

Core Supporting Activities could be:

1. Recruitment: external and internal
2. Selection: measurement, external, and internal
3. Employment: decision making, final match

Legal compliance: when the organisation acquires people for working, then there is establishment of legal employment relationship. Employees who are being acquired by the organisation may be any individual who would be a contractor, a temporary employee. Laws are being created to define the right jobs for the right people. It is the job of the HR to set the right person to the job as per his skills and expertise. There are laws that create fairness and justice to people, like non discrimination, or disability.

Planning: is the process and the core activities that is done or undertaken to forecast the demand of labor and the internal labor supply. The calculations and projections will tell the employment gaps and hence the further activities would be carried. HR also has to develop action plans for the removal of gap.

Job analysis and rewards: after the staffing, its important to do the job analysis of each employee so that their performance could be measured. Rewards may be given after the evaluation of the job performance of the employees, if they have performed well then, they may get some incentives and rewards with could be in cash or kind.

Recruitment: is the process of finding and hiring the candidate for a particular job. When there are jo openings, then hiring of a person is done, he could be within the organisation, or outside the organisation. This is an internal as well as external process. People are attracted for the jobs, and then screening and selection takes place.

Selection: is picking the right candidate for the right job. It is done after the candidates have applied for a job profile, they are screened out and the best candidate is selected as per the required skills and expertise of the candidate. Its a lengthy process before making the final decision of hiring the candidate.

Employment: the candidates hired by the company becomes the employees of the company. Its the duty of the HR to make them comfortable in the organisation, interact with them. Employment includes all small activities like compensation, leaves, conflicts, training of the employee, etc.