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Effective Employment...
Planning what kind of staff you want and how you will recruit them is one of the most important decisions that a business owner can face. Once they have joined your business, you also need to think about how you will motivate and retain their services.
- This is because:
- A full-time employee represents a significant business investment.
- Recruiting and selecting an employee can take considerable time and effort.
- Once chosen, a staff member becomes an integral part of your business. Therefore hiring the right person for the job is critical. If you select the wrong person, rectifying the mistake can be time consuming and expensive.
A. The Recruiting Stage
"What sort of staff do I want and how do I get them?"
Human Resource Inventory
If you already have staff you'll find it useful to compile an inventory of what human resources your business has. This will ensure that you don't duplicate skills. More importantly, it enables you to highlight areas where your business is lacking in skills.
Planning Process
This stage involves deciding what human resources your business needs and what sort of staff you want.
B. The Motivating Stage
Your ability to manage and lead your staff will dictate the success of your personnel plan. Following the previous steps will help you to hire able, qualified and motivated staff, but the process doesn't stop there. It's also your role to ensure in your business that a high level of motivation and enthusiasm is maintained so that staff perform at the highest level.
C. The Retaining Stage
The loss of a key staff member can have a dramatic effect on your business. It's difficult for a small business to retain staff because it's not always possible to offer someone a career path. Simply increasing some-one's salary does not always mean you will retain the services of that person. Simple things such as giving employees more control over their own work can have an enormous impact.
Summary
Employing staff is often the most satisfying part of being in business.
Giving people meaningful employment and seeing people achieve their true potential is one of the best aspects of operating a business. Staff are important assets and should be treated as such. They are the means through which you will achieve success.