Strategic Staffing: A Comprehensive System for Effective Workforce Planning, Second Edition

Other Key Definitions

As you read through this book and begin to consider implementing some of the processes it describes, you will need to keep in mind my very specific definitions of some otherwise common terms. I am not suggesting that you need to use these terms this way, but you do need to understand how I am using them throughout this book. In some cases, my definitions are quite normal; in other cases, they may deviate significantly from your own definitions.

Staffing

I may have the broadest definition of staffing that you will ever hear. To me, staffing includes any action or movement that relates to getting people into, around, and/or out of an organization in a planned way—including retention. Staffing is not simply a process that ...