Staffing and Directing

What is Staffing

Hiring new people with new skills. Firing or declining people with inappropriate or unneeded skills. Training your employees to learn new and useful skills for your

benefit.

Solving integration issues

Loosing excess employees due to a merger. Loosing skillful employees. A successful integration manager:1. A deep knowledge of the acquiring company.2. Flexible management style.3. Ability to work cross – functional project teams.4. Willingness to work independently.5. Sufficient emotional and cultural intelligence to work with people

of all sorts of backgrounds.

Staffing follows Strategy

*promotions should be based not only on current job performance but also on whether a person has the skills and abilities to do what is needed to implement the new strategy.

Training and Development:• Higher productivity.• Fishing out the procrastinators.• Declining lazy workers.• Overall cost savings. Matching Manager to Strategy:• Turnaround specialist• Professional liquidator• Dynamic industry expert• Analytical portfolio manager• Cautions profit plannersh

Selection and Management Development

Identifying Abilities and Potential:• Performance appraisal system• Assessment centers• Job rotation

Problems in Retrenchment

Downsizing:• Eliminate unnecessary work• Contract out work for cost savings• Plan for long – run efficiencies• Communicate reasons for actions• Invest in remaining employees• Develop value – added jobs

What is Leading?

Coaching people to use their abilities and skills to their full potential and effectively to achieve organizational objectives.

Without direction, people tend to do their work according to their personal view of what tasks should be done, how, and in what order.

Assessing Strategy – Culture Compatibility

Managing Corporate Culture:• Compatible with current culture?• Cultural flexibility • Organizational change possible • Commitment to strategy implementation

Objectives of management

Establish objectives Setting individual objectives Create an action plan Periodic performance review

Managing Diverse Culture

Integration Assimilation Separation

Total Quality Management (TQM)

Intense focus on customer satisfaction Internal and external customers Accurate measurement leads to continuous improvement Trust and teamwork

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