A thoroughly revised edition providing a comprehensive treatment of staffing procedures, policies, techniques, and problems for human resource professionals and students.
This volume provides a comprehensive treatment of the staffing function--defined by the authors as an integrated system of planning for, obtaining, using, and developing organizational human resources. Written as an on the job reference source for personnel professionals, the book emphasizes a practical rather than a theoretical approach to the subject of staffing. All three authors are university professors with considerable research, publication, and consulting experience on human resource issues. thus, their book is well researched and informative, with a field-based, applied focus. Beginning with an overview of the organizational role played by staffing, the authors move through the legal aspects of staffing to job analysis, human resource planning, and the recruiting process and employee selection, including interviewing. Concluding chapters cover organizational career development, human resource administration, and program evaluation. Although none of the topics is covered in depth, this book provides a well-integrated overview of a wide range of activities associated with organizational staffing. Must reading for the human resources professional, and a useful addition to upper-division and graduate collections.