effective ways to organize your work

effective ways to organize your work

1. multitask appropriately: doing two or more things at once - can be helpful when dealing with 'things', not people.

2. use technology wisely: technology can waste time for you or save time - must be wise!

3. give yourself thinking time: close your door if possible and spend an hour each day working without interruptions.

4. establish priorities: have get to notice between 'urgent' and 'important'.

(source: s. covey and r. merrill, "news ways to get organized at work," usa weekend, february 6, 1998, p. 18)

skills for managing human resources

skills for managing human resources

1. congruency skills: need to ensure that human resource programs and practices are attuned to changes in the and the enviroment.

2. hiring skills: need to hire the right person at the right time.

3. training skills: need to prepare employees for job and career changes.

4. performance appraisal skills: to provide constructive performance feedback to help employees capitalize on their strenght and improve their job performance.

5. pay allocation skills: compensation is the payment employees receive in exchange for their labor - powerful tools to keep your best employees; and likely to affect their behavior.

effective time management practices

the following practices help managers eliminate or reduce time-wasting behavior and allow them to be more proactive:

1. plan list of things that need to be done today.
2. plan weekly, monthly, and annually schedules of activities.
3. schedule difficult and challenging activities when you are at your highest level of energy and alertness.
4. set deadlines.
5. answer phone messages and e-mail in batches during a lull in your work schedule.
6. have place to work uninterrupted.
7. do something productive during nonproductive activities.

(source: d.a. whetten and k.s. cameron, developing management skills, 4th ed., upper saddle river, nj: prentice hall, 1998.)

avoiding pitfalls in the decision-making process

these pitfalls can result in low-quality decisions or poor implementation of the decision making in the correct sequence, managers can avoid many of them.

1. solution focus
2. premature evaluation
3. the "if it isn't broke, don't fix it" syndrome
4. bias toward objective data
5. overlooking important constituencies

skills for managing: time management & delegation

skills for managing: time management & delegation

time management skills: to make good decisions, managers need time to understand the problem and develop creative solutions. they need to be proactive by planning activities and priorities so that enough time is budgeted for the important decisions to be made, and also to become aware of activities that waste time.

knowing each of team members (knowledge, skills and attitude) may increase the efficiency of delegating tasks

delegation skills: managers who know how to delegate are able to accomplish more than those who feel the need to be involved in every decision, no matter how trivial. many managers mistakenly believe that subordinates are not able to make effective decisions. managers ubalbe to delegate find themselves with too many tasks and decisions and too little time to do everything well.