• Deciding the number and mix of staff required for health facilities and services
• Long-term health workforce planning
• Hiring and firing staff
• Setting staff salaries and allowances
• Deployment of staff to clinical, outreach and public health services and activities
• Development of health staff job descriptions
• Performance assessment of health staff
• Training needs assessment for health staff
• In-service education for health staff
• Career planning for health staff
• Setting and awarding health staff incentives - financial
• Setting and awarding health staff incentives - non-financial