Staffing method

The staffing method (also known as the capacity calculation) is a process used to determine a company's staffing needs. It includes work requirements, working hours, and task quantities.

procedure

The method can be found particularly in manufacturing areas of industry, since the production planning of individual pieces has already taken place there and data is available. The person capacity can also be quickly made tangible through the specified working hours. Three factors come into consideration when measuring staff :

Work requirements

The work requirements must first be determined. Depending on the level of detail, the following are possible:

• Work processes as the most precise structure
• Work tasks as a rough outline

working time

The working time can be determined for the individual work step or task with the help of:

• Actual time investigations
• Systems of a predetermined time
• simulation

Operation quantities

Orders, packages or invoices, for example, can be considered as transaction quantities.

requirement

The determination of the personnel requirement is divided into two stages, the calculation of the net and then the gross capacity requirement.

Net capacity requirements

The net capacity requirement can then be calculated by multiplying the necessary working times and the quantities of operations. The personnel requirement results:

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Gross capacity requirement

Times when employees are not productively available are then added to the net capacity requirement. These can be, for example:

• Average performance of the employees present (surcharge / discount)
• Distribution time requirement of the employees present
• Downtime for illness, vacation, training
• Special leave
• Works meeting , service meeting
• Necessary reduction in overtime

Experience has shown that this surcharge is approx. 10–20% plus the net capacity requirement.

See also

• Organization of care for people with disabilities

literature

• Harry Christ, Ilse Kiel, Gisela Anger, Hartmut Müller, human resource management, textbook . Bildungsverlag EINS, 2009, ISBN 3823716719
• Klaus Olfert, Human Resources . 14th edition Kiehl, 2010, ISBN 3470622728

Web links

• Reference values ​​personnel measurement method
• Human Resources (manuscript) (PDF file; 503 kB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Edumedia. PDF
2. ^ Olfert: Personnel Management. 2010, p. 79.
3. ^ Olfert: Personnel Management. 2010, p. 80.