Which activity best represents the staffing function after an employee is appointed?
Correct answer: B. Providing training for the employee's assigned role
- A. Setting the organisation's long-term mission
- B. Providing training for the employee's assigned role
- C. Comparing output with a performance standard
- D. Issuing instructions about daily work
Explanation
Staffing includes developing and maintaining the workforce, including training and placement. Mission setting belongs mainly to planning, comparison of results to standards belongs to controlling, and issuing work instructions belongs to directing.
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Management principles explain how organisations set objectives and coordinate people and resources to achieve them. Coverage includes planning, organising, staffing, directing, coordinating and controlling, along with authority, responsibility, delegation, span of control and the levels of management. These functions are related but not interchangeable, especially planning and controlling.
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