HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT:STAFFING AND SELECTION

Staffing and selecting are two important parts of Human Resource Management cycle. At the same time, staffing and selecting are elements of the recruiting process, which plays the primary role in finding the appropriate personnel. Staffing is the process of moving employees into, through, and out of the organization, to produce the desired quantity and types of employee assignments. This process, in turn, comprises of two minor phases; namely external staffing, and internal staffing. External staffing focuses basically on moving employees into the organization from outside and on the pattern of employee separations from the organization. On the other hand, internal staffing deals with moving employees between positions within the organization. So generally, staffing consists in managing the employee movement inside and outside the organization, which makes it an influential human resource management activity. The organizations’ jobs, reward systems, and over-all structure cannot function appropriately unless the right members and types of employees join, get assigned to the right positions, and stay within the organization working properly. 
Selecting is a part of external staffing process. Selecting stands at the very end of the recruiting process, so-called the final stage. When all the preceding stages of the recruiting process have been completed, which means that at each stage the majority of applicants was rejected, the employers pick the best of the best to fill in the vacant position in the organization. In general, external selecting gathers and uses information about externally recruited applicants to choose which of them receive employment offers. This stage is often preceded by screening, which in turn comprises of many other minor steps; it identifies obviously unqualified applicants before gathering additional selection information and rejects those applicants.   

Annotated References 
1.	Smith, K. G. and Grimm C.M. (1991). Environmental Change and Management Staffing.  Journal of Management, 17. 

The article provided relevant information about the basic features of the staffing procedure. Even though it mostly addressed management staffing, the techniques human resource managers used were the same. 
  
2.	Heneman, R.L. (1996). Personnel Staffing, Recruiting, and Selection. Staffing Organizations, 2.
  
Assessment of personnel and hiring is presented as key determinants of effective organization performance. Covers the fundamentals of staffing process, as well as its elements, like manpower planning, new employee introduction, etc.

3.	Campbell, J.P. and McCloy, R. A. (1993). Personnel Selection in Organizations. Theory of Performance. 

Various validation (selection) techniques combined with other relevant human resource management issues like staffing and recruiting. Brief and straightforward, and easy to understand.