Staffing the Engineering Organization a.

Regression models
b. Econometric models a system of
What is Staffing?
regression equations estimated from past
The Engineer manager must be concerned with time-series data and used to show the
putting the right persons in various positions within effect of various independent variables on
his area of concern. various dependent variable
c. Leading indicators refers to time series
Staffing may be defined as The management that anticipate business cycle turn
functions that determines human resources needs, 3. Monitoring methods are those that
recruits, selects, trains, and develops human provide early warning signals of significant
resources for job created by an organization. changes in established patterns and
relationship so that the engineer manager
The Staffing Procedure
can assess the likely impact and plan
1. Human resource planning responses if required.
2. Recruitment
3. Selection Recruitment
4. Induction and orientation When the different positions have been
5. Training and development identifies to be necessary and the decision
6. Performance appraisal to fill them up has been made, the next
7. Employment decisions (monetary rewards, logical step is recruitment.
transfers, promotion and demotions) Recruitment refers to attracting qualifies
8. Separations persons to apply for vacant positions in the
company so that those who are best suited
Human Resources Planning to serve the company may be selected.
Human resource planning may involve three
activities: Source of Applicants
1. The organizations current employees.
1. Forecasting which is an assessment of Some of the organizations current
future human resource needs in relation to employees may be qualified to occupy
the current capabilities of the organization positions higher than the ones they are
2. Programming Which means translating occupying.
the forecasted human resource needs to 2. Newspaper advertising. There are at
personnel objectives and goals. least three major daily newspaper
3. Evaluation and Control which refers to distributed throughout the Philippines.
monitoring human resource action plans Readership is higher during Sundays.
and evaluating their success. 3. Schools. There are good sources of
applicants. Representatives of
Method of Forecasting
companies may interviews applicants
1. Time series method which use historical inside campuses.
date to develop forecasts of the future 4. Referrals from employees. Current
2. Explanatory, or casual methods which are employees sometimes recommend
attempts to identify the major variables relatives and friends who may be
that are related to or have caused particular qualified.
past conditions and then use current 5. Recruitment firms. Some companies
measures of these variables to predict are specifically formed to assist client
future conditions firms in recruiting qualified persons.
6. Competitors. There are useful sources
Three major types of explanatory models of qualified but underutilized
personnel.