Management Articles

The candidate had a stellar track record at one of the industry’s largest and most highly respected companies. Impressed with his accomplishments, the Board of Directors of a promising start-up jumped at the chance to hire him as CEO. They believed his pedigree and high profile would give the company instant credibility, and his extensive contacts would open doors with potential clients and partners.

Often, chief executives and HR professionals have questions on how to recruit and motivate new board members. They are unsure of the appropriate: intervals for board meetings, compensation, and diversity of the board’s members. And, there is little research to help companies develop best practices for attracting, retaining, rewarding and drawing value from their entrepreneurial boards.

Miriam-Webster defines efficiency as “...productive without waste.” In business, waste means money. So being efficient has a direct impact on your company’s bottom line.

What is workforce planning? Why is it so critical? And how can workforce planning software help? These are the issues we address in this article.

Recording attendance details, and time worked, accurately are not as simple as they might seem. Traditional clock punching has certain drawbacks and can result in highly inaccurate records. For example, a worker's buddy might punch in instead of the worker himself, leading to a false record of a worker being present.

Even the smaller establishments need staff rostering systems if they employ more than a few staff, and the staff members have to work at different times. These establishments, say, a retail store, might do the scheduling using a spreadsheet. In the left column, staff names are listed in alphabetical order. The top row of other columns shows the days of the week. Against each staff person, each day's working time is entered.

The work environment today has the potential to be very different from what it was even a few years ago. What was just theory earlier has entered the realms of practicality with the advances in Information Technology and Web-based functionality. Concepts like self-rostering and work-at-home are practical possibilities now, and could even lead to greater productivity.

Nurses must be available 24 hours at health care organizations. This means that shift working is an absolute necessity. However, available nurses cannot be arbitrarily rostered to shifts.

NHS or National Health Service is a UK-wide agency that provides healthcare to UK residents. The agency needs a varied mix of skills to meet the large variety of healthcare demands placed upon its centers. At the same time, the individual centers of the agency cannot be expected to be staffed with all kinds of specialists to meet needs that might arise infrequently.

Electronic rostering or e-rostering is the process of using the computer's power to the task of rostering. Considering that rostering is a routine job of scheduling workers according to pre-determined rules, which can be many, computers can do it extremely fast compared to humans.