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Personnel Management
Efficiency in personnel management
Personnel is simply the human resource of any organization. An organization is any cohesion between an employer and employee, with common goals. These may be profit making or nonprofit making goals. Management entails the general oversee of the functions of the organization and even the specific departments. Managers should have certain specific virtues and abilities, including maintaining right relations between the employer and employee, decision making, ensuring right procedures and implementation of the organization's constitution. Personnel managers are, therefore, in charge of the human resource department. (Pratt & Bennett, 1989, pg 123)
Ralph's duties and responsibilities as personnel manager
Ralph had responsibilities of a general manager but in his field of personnel. The duties of a manager include,
Planning- this entails the process of selecting missions, goals and objectives, then laying out strategies with which to attain them.
2. Organizing- this entails the creating of a strong workforce in an organization. There has to be a formal description of relationships among people. This will help in the accomplishment of the set rules.
3. Co-ordination- it is focused on the creation of formal relations of different departments. Different responsibilities are given to different people.
4. Staffing- it is the responsibility of specifically the human resource manager, who is also known as the personnel manager. The manager will ensure the organization has qualified employees all...
(This was Ralph's main task)
5. Directing- it is a process where the manager or director determines and influences the behavior of individuals.
6. Controlling- when the manager compares the theoretical performance against the standard performance that is the controlling task. Performance should, therefore, correlate evenly with the responsibilities of the individual employees. (Pratt & Bennett, 1989, pg 124)
Ralph's policies and procedures
It the context, there are major policies and procedures that Ralph involved himself in. There was the aspect of controlling, directing, decision making and also staffing that entailed person specification which entails the individual qualities needed for a chance in any organization. (Old Well is not an exception).
Ralph took control of the hiring process immediately when the administrator, through the nursing department manager, asked him to get people for the specified positions. The positions which involved nurse aides and a supervisor were quite crucial and required the right manager for good results. By Ralph going to his former place of work, he was just being keen to ensure he got the best, as he was familiar with most of the people he contacted for the job openings. Thanks to Ralph's control policy.
Being a good director, Ralph had the ability to get a group of individuals from a different organization to his current one. The fact that the individuals were not satisfied with the progress at their place of work does not categorize them as losers. In fact, Ralph, who…
References
Grossbauer, S (2001) Managing Foodservice Operations: A System Approach for Healthcare and Institutions: New York: Kendall Hunt.
Pratt, K.J. & Bennett, S. G (1989) Elements of Personnel Management: New York: Taylor and Francis.
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