Developing an Effective Workforce

1. Identify vacancy

2. Advertise the vacancy

3. Recieve applications and shortlist applicants

4. Interview candidates

5. Pick the best suited

Filling a job vacancy from within the existing workforce by promotion or redeployment.

Advs:

• Quicker/cheaper
• More variety/promotion opportunities->increases motivation
• Avoids training costs
• Firm knows skills and attitudes
• Employee already familiar with rules and regs of the company

Disadvs:

• Existing workers may not posess the skills
• No news skills or ideas being brought to the company
• Tension between employees

Employing someone from outside of the business:

Advs:

• Wider range of candidates
• External candidates may possess the necessary skills
• New ideas and skills

Disadvs:

• Expensive
• Time consuming
• Demotivating for existing employees

• Media; newspapers, television, radio
• Job centres
• Commercial Recruitment
• Executive search consulants
• Website
• Signs in company premises

Contains:

• Expected qualifications
• Abilities required
• Personal qualties
• Title of position
• Main duties and tasks
• Responsibilities

Selecting  the best person:

• Interviews
• Assessment centres
• Testing/Profiling

The purpose of training is to help the employee develop skills or gain new ones.

Induction: Aims to make employees as productive as possible by familiarising them with key  aspects of the business.

• Important policies and procedures e.g. health and safety
• Tour of the organisations, introduction to colleagues
• Details of employment

Employees are not required to leave the workplace but recieve instructions while carrying out the job. Common methods are mentoring, coaching and job rotation.

Advs:

• Least expensive
• Employees still productive
• Given the opporunity to work alonside colleagues

Disadvs:

• Quality depends on skills of the trainer
• Bad habits can be passed
• Potential disruption to productivity

Involves employees leaving the workplace in order to recieve instructions. Usuall involves training facilities. Involves a short loss of production however it allows for the employee to concentrate fully and gives access to more experienced instructors.

Advs:

• Wider range of skills and qualifications can be obtained
• Can learn from specialists or experts
• Employees can become more confident

Disadvs:

• Expensive e.g. transport and accomodation
• New employees will still need induction training
• Skills might not be directly realted to employees job description