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Human Resources Management & Staff Rosters

The Management of Human Resources is based upon Staff Rosters.
Your company will use staff rosters, they are, after all, the most efficient method of staffing any organisation, so that everyone knows constantly and immediately, who is where and what they are doing. Thereafter Human Resources Planning is simple and easy? Not quite!
Unfortunately, if this is done manually and without proper training, it takes a long time to produce a staff roster and the end result is rarely good enough to have the impact on efficiency you would expect.
Training in Staff Rostering is essential to produce efficient and effective rosters quickly. There is no other area of management which will produce greater productivity and efficiency savings.
Many organizations have staffing problems for which they can use our Consultancy service. Our methods are unique, the computer programs we use are unique and your solutions will be unique as well.
Consultancy - Staffing Resource - solving your staffing problems

First of all, information about one of our programs: Visual Rota.

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Visual Rota - Staff Rostering Software (NT, W95/98/3.x)


When it comes to staff rostering, there really is no substitute to using the computer.
Visual Rota is a computer program that anyone can use to create their staff roster, or schedule as it is sometimes called. Visual Rota will change your organizations' method of scheduling staff. If you have the responsibility for this task, you will be able to bring up on your computer every roster for everyone for the next year at a mouse click. The traditional paper and pencil method worked, but now you can go to the latest and best computer technology. It still looks traditional, it still looks like a sheet of paper, and you write in the shifts just as you do now, on paper. But, now the computer enhances your ability 10 fold. Now you become 10 times faster, in a task that becomes 10 times easier, and 100% accurate. No more scruffy copies covered in indecipherable hieroglyphics, either. You can produce pristine copies, faster than it takes for the snopake, or tipp-ex, to dry! Editing the roster for changes, requests, holidays, is now much simpler, change the roster and all the calculations change as well, keeping everyone informed of all the relevant information.
If you are having problems making your staff roster work, ie it never seems to work out the way you want, have a look at the articles below and feel free to contact Alec, freephone above, who has helped many people, whether they are running a shop with just a few employees, to multi-nationals employing 10's of thousands of staff.

Articles About Staff Rostering


Staff Scheduling. This is one of the most frustrating managerial tasks that has to be done. It can be made very easy.
Theory and creating the staffing schedule
I am often asked the question, how do I start a brand new staff schedule? It can be daunting to have the task of creating a brand new manning operation, budgeting for it, and presenting it to management.
creating new schedules with VR
All of us would like to think that there is a repeatable pattern of shifts that would only have to be done once.
shift pattern generator
How can you change over to using the computer, having done the staff roster by hand for years?
changing over to VR from your current method
Staffing costs are the major expenditure of all businesses. We can tell you how to include them in your business plan.
Business Plans
If you need to keep records, have the computer generate them for you. Why not use the computer to do any calculations and presentations you have to have.
Record Keeping using VR
Considering A Merger or Acquisition? Many mergers are financial failures because the people aspects have not been planned and managed properly.
Mergers & Acquisitions consultancy
Holiday pay falls into 2 distinct variants, Did you know that?
holiday entitlements - the most difficult calculations you ever need to do.
Many organizations have pay rates that do not coincide with shift times.
shifts overlapping pay rates make for difficult pay calculations
Hotel Staff and Staffing A Hotel . Housekeeping, reception, porters, cleaning, room service, restaurant, bar, the list of departments is long enough, but each department has several grades of staff.
hotels and staffing
Visual Rota gives you the opportunity to cost out the labour element of running your establishment to as exact a figure as you like.
See your staffing costs as you prepare the schedule
The EC Working Time Directive will have an effect on all Organisations. The Elements of the EC Working Time Directive That Will Affect You
EU - Working Time Directive. 48hr/wk, Night Workers, record keeping,etc
Frequently Asked Questions about creating a staff schedule on computer.
Frequently asked questions
Visual Rota compiles additional information to be used by the operations/financial manager to be linked into forecasting on the employment of staff and budget decisions.
Using Visual Rota Statistics to make decisions
Resistance to change is inevitable people will always question methods and evaluate what they are being asked to do.
Managing Change. How to introduce changes
All organisations need a manpower plan and the essential prerequisite for any manpower planning is a statement of demand for the products of the organisation.
How to use annual hours in planning schedules
Visual Rota enables you to perform 'What If..' analyses, such as; •What if - we decide on different hours per shift?
What is Whatif analysis?
This article concentrates on one very important aspect of quality, how staffing levels are seen to affect the quality from the recipients point of view.
How having too many staff can affect quality as well as too few staff
Short staffing is when the tasks to be completed on a shift are not completed because there is not enough staff available.
Continually short staffed-fact or is it a myth
Productivity increases can leave your organization over staffed, Visual Rota can reduce your staffing, painlessly.
How to reduce staff painlessly
Direct E-mail to Alec at CDT Please e-mail any questions you have about Visual Rota
please email us alec@visualrota.co.uk
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Organizations and Staff Scheduling The Basics Behind Efficient Organizations
Large organizations and using Visual Rota
What is it that people want, when they talk about staff records? It isn't what is available on the market at the moment.
Easy staff records without a database
CDT produce and use a set of Care Plans to look after patients and as documents to be examined by Health Authority Inspectors.
Easy patient records & care plans without a database
The one thing that the demo cannot show you, is how quickly you can create a staff schedule for all your staff for the next month. This is only possible using the full program.
Visual Rota Demo File
The next selection is for people already familar with scheduling staff and want to see how the program works user guides,help & video

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The topics of interest to you depends on who you are.

If you are just starting to schedule staff, you should look at Creating new schedules for a beginners guide. No one ever starts with a blank sheet of paper, except in the literal sense.

New to Staff Rostering? try; Creating new schedules,Staffing Theory

Established User? try;Transferring to a Computer, Generating Shift Patterns

Established User/Manager? try; Calculating Holiday Entitlement, Shifts Overlapping Payrates Staff Record keeping, Short Staffed, Over Staffed

Senior Managers & Above? try; Consultancy, EU Working Time Directive Staffing a Hotel, Large Organizations, Using Visual Rota Statistics to make decisions

Staff Scheduling and Staff Rostering Software

Visual Rota (Win NT, W95/98, W3.1)

Whether you employ 10 staff in a care home or 10,000 staff in a company,
Visual Rota will do the work for you
Hospitals, Care Homes, Hotels, Factories, Offices, Banks, Transport, Tourism, Security

Index
health & Shiftwork
E-mail alec@visualrota.co.uk
Management Savings
Self rostering
Delegate rostering
tasks performed by Visual Rota
FAQs
EC Working Time Directive
Managing Information
Care Plans
Example & Picture
Homepage
Management Fact Sheets
Staffing and Workload
Cash & Cash Budgets
Daily Task Scheduling
Total capacity flexibility
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The Visual Rota website is more than just about a Staff Rostering Computer Program. Within this site, you will find information about how to create the most efficient staffing structures. We show how simple it is to create staff rosters from scratch, we cover how to manage when you think you are short of staff, or have too many staff. We cover holidays, how to calculate holiday entitlements and how to assign holidays to ensure that you are never short of staff. We show you how to use Visual Rota to meet budgets, monthly or yearly, both staffing budgets and cash budgets. We show you how to use Annual Hours to equalize staffing versus workload variations. We show you how staffing affects quality and how the staff can help with the roster.

We provide a consultancy service so that you can have
expert guidance to help with your staff problems.

After you have reduced the time taken, and the effort expended, to a tenth of what it used to be, we will show you how to use your new found time profitably, increasing the quality of the service you provide, increasing the profitability of your company, and forming new strategies to become the best in your field.
Before Visual Rota, preparing Staff Schedules and Rosters involves an incredible amount of manual work. Formulating the staffing schedule is one of the most frustrating managerial tasks that has to be done, and the first over riding parameter is to minimise the work involved and maximise the efficiency. To be productive with the minimum waste of effort, to be competent, capable and produce the desired result.
Record Keeping. We all have to keep staff records. Manual record keeping requires considerable manpower. to convert the staffing schedule into hours, payroll data, holiday entitlement and management data. Visual Rota creates these records simultaneously.

With Visual Rota Staff scheduling becomes a simple task, the schedule is prepared months ahead and takes into account holidays, staff requests, work load variations, staff turnover and recruitment.
Staff are able to change their shifts without any loss of effectiveness to the organisation. It will even be possible for staff to view the schedule at home and arrange for replacements before they phone in sick .
Managers will have their cash and staff hours budgets calculated months ahead. They will have been able to optimise staffing using 'What If' analyses. Managers requests for staffing will now be based on the best information and they will be motivated to make decisions that produce quantifiable results. They can try out scenarios, based on actual limits of time and money and produce the best results.

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Tel: +44 1 636 707655 Fax: +44 1 636 612355 E-mail alec@visualrota.co.uk

Contact: Alec Jezewski CDT (C-Desk Technology) http://www.visualrota.co.uk

The Old Rectory, Church Lane, Averham, Newark, Nottinghamshire, Great Britain, NG23 5RB

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Don't waste time

doing your staffing with pencil and paper, counting staffing numbers, converting shifts to payroll hours, making a fair copy of your work, wondering how much your staff cost, producing budget reports, Visual Rota does it for you.

More information about Visual Rota

user guides,help & video

record keeping using VR

calculating holiday entitlements

shifts overlapping pay rates

creating new schedules with VR

shift pattern generator

changing over to VR

hotels and staffing

See your staffing costs as you prepare the schedule

EC Worktime Directive

Frequently asked questions

Using Visual Rota Statistics to make decisions

Managing Change. How to introduce changes

use annual hours in planning schedules

What is Whatif analysis?

too many staff can affect quality

Continually short staffed-fact or myth

How to reduce staff painlessly

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Theory and creating the staffing schedule

Staffing resource consultancy

Large organizations staff records Careplans

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