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MONDAY, AUGUST 28, 2017
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Opinion
The right person for the right job
Our organasations need to start relying on effective staffing in order to succeed
Placement matters
In order to implement a successful business strategy, organisations, large
and small, must ensure that they have the right people in the right places
• Tahsin Kabir
Bangladesh is known as
a developing country
throughout the world.
Our population is
increasing at an outrageous rate,
and the unemployment situation
is nothing short of a crisis.
About 160 million people live in
this country but most of them live
under the poverty line.
“Population is our valuable
asset” is a canned line that no one
from top level management of any
organisation would disagree with
-- we cannot even think of running
a company without ensuring
human resource management.
If we look at it from a
Bangladeshi perspective, most
multi-national companies, banks,
and government-run institutions
have recently gone all-out to
ensure effective staffing practices
to improve worker productivity.
However, in the private sector,
most organisations -- including
joint ventures, off-shoring, and
buying houses -- are still not
involved in effective staffing
practices due to a lack of
knowledge, lack of professionals,
lack of planning, the list goes on.
Effective staffing is the practice
of putting the right person in the
right place. It is an important
part of every manager’s
responsibilities. In Bangladesh,
most multi-national organisations
find it necessary to establish a
specialist division. The degree of
change that organisations are now
facing has never been greater.
In order to implement a
successful business strategy,
organisations, large and small,
must ensure that they have the
right people in the right places.
Inefficient staffing is holding
our industries and businesses
back. One of the common issues
people face in the job market in
Bangladesh is the lack of clarity
in job roles and duties when
companies put out vacancies.
Do you know your KSA?
Another common issue is how
recruiters take interviews for a
specific position.
Even after confirming candidates
for a position, they hire others
internally without informing the
ones already hired. It is a total
waste of time and money not only
for the organisation but definitely
for the candidates.
Such practices are common
because of the recruiter’s lack
of knowledge about their own
organisation’s objectives, what
responsibilities one has to perform
for a position, and what kind of
knowledge, skill, and attitude
(KSA) are required for that
position.
In Bangladesh, most people
are, unfortunately, not in the
right place within their respective
organisations. Questions need
to be raised about such blatant
misuse of human resources.
A simple solution would be
to improve recruiters’ ability to
match job seekers’ KSA with a job
position.
Make smart moves
These issues can be resolved with
strategic staffing plans. But, before
we go for the solutions, there
should be some sort of training for
HR employees to communicate
essential information about their
organisation’s objectives and
strategies.
If we fail to attract and bring the
right people on-board due to a lack
of effective staffing practices and
plans, employers will eventually
move to outsourcing to fill up the
skill gap. In fact, outsourcing has
already become a matter of some
concern, but HR professionals in
our country have somehow failed
to realise this matter.
HR’s responsibilities are not
only to act as a service department
but also to add value in making
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strategic decisions which can lead
the organisation to success.
We need to address these
issues collectively and objectively,
something our foreign competitors
have been doing for ages. •
Tahsin Kabir is a freelance contributor.