Working capacity (business administration)
In business administration, work capacity (or personnel capacity ) is the maximum possible output of the production factor work in a certain period of time.
General
Like so many business terms, it also comes from agriculture , where it must be clear how many people are available to bring in the harvest , especially during the harvest, as a personnel and time bottleneck situation. The result was that with a minimal income, the work capacity is low because the food acquired - with the labor income - was purchasedonly serve to maintain the basic physical functions and therefore the work performance must be performed by a weakened body. Conversely, further increases in income increase work capacity. Too little leisure time - with excessive working hours - can also be an influencing factor on work capacity. It was therefore necessary to ask what influencing factors have an overall effect on work capacity.
species
A general distinction is made between qualitative and quantitative work or personnel capacity. The quantitative work capacity relates to the number of employed and operational employees, measured in employee hours. The qualitative component of the work capacity consists of the level of training and operational experience of the employees.
Measurement
Factors of the work capacity are the available, fully employable workforce and the working hours . The maximum possible work volume (work output) results from the equation
If the working hours are shortened, the working capacity is reduced and vice versa. Working capacity is therefore the total number of hours worked per year, reduced by the statutory / collectively agreed break and vacation regulations as well as absenteeism . If the number of workers changes, this also affects the work capacity. Workers are subject to subjective and objective working conditions . The subjective include physical and mental abilities and skills, the level of training, personal motivation , experience and work motivation . The working conditions , the work technique , the workplace and the break regulations are objective . These working conditions also have an impact on work capacity. If, for example, the workers only have poor, unsafe working technology available, the work volume will be less than with functionally reliable technology and vice versa.
The demand for jobs (job requirements) results from comparing the work volume with the work capacity.
meaning
In addition to the technical machine capacity, the work or personnel capacity is one of the central control variables in the company. It provides decision-making bases for the deployment of personnel in other areas ( Springer ), flexibility through better qualification of employees, temporary use of overtime , changes in shift models , temporary work, etc. a.
Individual evidence
- ^ Anton Brandenberger, outbreak from the "Malthusian trap" , 2004, p. 68
- ↑ Jörg Rösner, Service , 1998, p. 41 f.
- ↑ Andrea Gourmelon / Michael Mroß / Sabine Seidel, Management in the Public Sector , 2011, p. 129
- ↑ Wolfgang Schweizer, Wertstrom Engineering: Production rich in types and variants , 2013, p. 53 f.