9. Staffing

Question 1

personnel or staff

Answer 1

people

• who have signed an employment contract
• who worked for an agreed working time
• who have followed directions or instructions given by the employer

Question 2

personnel planning

Answer 2

to achieve the corporate objective by coordinating:

• personnel requirement (PR)
• personnel equipment
• personnel assignment

Question 3

personnel requirement

Answer 3

type and number of employees who are necessary to perform all tasks in company at a particular point / period in time

number and type of required employees depend on:

• working hours (legalisation, model of working hours)
• productivity per man-hour worked
• production program / plan

Question 4

personnel requirement basic equation

Answer 4

working time per period workers have to provide = working time per period necessary to fulfill all tasks

Question 5

personnel equipments

Answer 5

• type and number of employees who are available at a particular point or period of time
• availability of staff:
  • influencing factors (absenteeism, fluctuation, early retirement)
  • company’s possibilities of intervention (recruiting, dismissal, promotion,
  transfer / labor missing)

Question 6

personnel assignment

Answer 6

• allocation of available employees to particular organizational units or tasks
• there usually exist
  • several options for employee assignments
  • restrictions for employee assignments

Question 7

methods of personnel assignments

Answer 7

• days-on scheduling
  → assignment of days off and days on to employees
• shift scheduling
  → implies that anoter set of employees follows the regular employees in the same workplace
• tour scheduling
  → employees have different starting and ending time