| Organising | Staffing |
| 1. Meaning | Organising refers to the process of putting together various resources and activities of the organisation into a system. | Staffing is a process of recruitment through which competent employees are selected, properly trained, effectively developed and suitably rewarded |
| 2. Objective | The main objective of organising is to identify and bring together all the resources. | The main objective of the staffing is to obtain the most competent and efficient staff to improve the overall performance. |
| 3. Area of function | Organising involves identifying the activities and grouping of relative activities of the organisation. | Staffing involves selection, recruitment, training, developing, promotion, transfer, etc. of employees. |
| 4. Factors | In organising function, internal as well as external factors are considered to make arrangement of resources. | In staffing function, mostly internal factors such as human factor, finance, work load, etc. are considered. |
| 5. Resources | Organising is related with all the available resources as they need to be properly arranged. | Staffing is related with human resources only. |
| 6. Levels of management | Usually, the function of organising is undertaken by the top level management and middle level management. | Usually, the function of staffing is undertaken by the middle level management. |