If a shop selects extra salespersons for a festival and trains them, which function is most prominent?

Correct answer: Staffing

Staffing is the governing function because it ensures that the organisation obtains and develops suitable employees. Selecting extra salespersons is a recruitment and selection activity, and training them is a development activity within staffing. The festival creates an increased manpower requirement, so the manager must arrange capable people before the busy period begins. Planning may have identified the need, organising may define duties, and controlling may later review results, but none of those is the central action described. The dominant evidence is the combination of employee selection and training. Therefore option C is correct: staffing places the right people in the right jobs and improves their ability to perform.