On staffing, school administrators are overtly and or covertly responsible for quantity and quality of
staff and students in their school. School personnel resources management (SPRM) revolves around
the school heads in determining the capacity required for their schools. School capacity depends on the
ability of the head to plan and organize for the personnel required for their school. Staffing here
involves teaching and non teaching staff and students. The Ministry of education is amply responsible
for the control of staff through recruitment exercise and admission of students through entrance
examinations for public schools. The school administrators also admit students changing from their
previous schools or from those whose parents have changed locations. The administrator has a great
role to play in the staffing process of the school. The importance of staffing in organization cannot be
overstressed because it is what that makes an organization a social system. On one hand it deals with
the human resource aspect of the organization that concerns itself with propelling the system for
realizing set out objectives and goals. On the other hand, public school heads are not empowered to
hire and fire directly but can recommend for such recruitment to be made through the Schools or
District Education board or the ministry of education. Without staffing function the process of
recruitment, deployment, retaining and retraining of staff for professional development as to pass
appropriately the intellectual work to the young learners.