Managing Staff.

Guide to Managing Staff…


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What is Managing Staff?

This guide outlines a process that will help you to manage what your staff do and how well they do it.

The process is called performance management. It involves setting clear results that you want your staff to achieve and regularly reviewing how well they are doing.

As well as knowing what your staff do it is equally important to know how they do their job. This can be done by comparing their performance against set behavioural standards.

This will ensure that the things an individual needs to do are done in a way that is acceptable to you and your organisation.

Why Should You Manage Staff?

Performance management is a way of getting better results from your organisation, teams and individuals.

Effective performance management will help your staff to understand your business strategy and how their job links to it. You will be able to identify key activities that your staff need to do and support them to do it in a way that helps your organisation in the longer term.

A business strategy is a plan that sets out where you want your organisation to be in terms of desired future performance. Performance management will ultimately help your organisation to achieve its strategy.

Performance management provides a well-structured and effective tool to help managers develop staff:

• Knowledge;

• Skills;

• Attitudes; and

• Relationships.

It will also help managers to identify areas for improvement and recognise the good work of their staff.

This will help you to develop a committed and motivated workforce who will be more effective at their jobs. In addition it will help you to develop your staff to be able to meet the future needs of your organisation.





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