Rotation of staff

As is known, for effective development of the company it is important to have a cohesive team of competent specialists. Such a tool as the rotation of personnel provides an opportunity to raise experienced workers directly within the organization. In order to implement this activity, it is necessary to obtain the written consent of the relocated employee.

Staff rotation is the transfer of personnel to various positions within the same organization.

Types of rotation

There are several classifications of this tool.

On the trajectory of movement, rotation occurs:

• Circular, i.e. Transfer from office to position in a certain time period, but at the end the employee returns to the starting position;
• Irrevocable, i.e. Transfer to another position without returning to the original one;
• Castling - the exchange of posts between two employees within the same horizontal level.

The frequency or speed of movement of personnel can be annual, monthly, daily, hourly.

By the level of specialization, staff rotation is carried out:

• On related specialty;
• For a completely different specialty;
• On a similar, but with a different nature of work;
• For the same specialty, but with minor changes in the nature of the work.

The initiator of the rotation can be the administration of the organization, the service for personnel management, the employee himself.

Purpose of the event

Staff rotation is carried out with the purpose of training employees in new related professions, in order to make them universal specialists. This event allows to familiarize the personnel with the greatest number of problems solved in the organization. The rotation of the staff checks the flexibility of employees, their ability to navigate in an unusual situation, allows the formation of a personnel reserve, the management of the enterprise.

Advantages

Properly designed and conducted personnel rotation provides the organization with such advantages:

• Allows you to update the staff, without increasing the number of staff units.
• Promotes increased interchangeability of employees, which is relevant in connection with the holidays, illnesses, increasing the volume of tasks at any of the sites.
• Improves the communication of workers in the organization, there is a healthy competition.
• Reduces the cost of training employees, eliminates the need for expensive training to learn the necessary skills.
• Reduces the cost of finding specialists in the labor market.
• Reduces staff turnover.

Difficulties in Rotating Staff

This event has its own difficulties, which can be minimized if you know about them in advance.

Sometimes due to prolonged or long-term adaptation of an employee to a new position , labor productivity is reduced . There may be costs for the process of training displaced people. Rotation of staff with improper organization of staff causes conflicts between employees: sometimes people refuse to move from "good" positions to, in their opinion, "bad" ones. Permutation in such cases should be carried out correctly, and difficult and easy posts should be distributed equally. At the same time, it is necessary to conduct explanatory work among employees, explaining what constitutes rotation of personnel, to indicate its goals, advantages for each employee, etc.

Often, managers and personnel managers are wondering how to deal with people who have a highly specialized profession, that is, Accountants, programmers, lawyers, etc. It is believed that all employees of the enterprise should be in the same position, that is, they need to move them too.

The system of staff rotation can be considered the key to a successful organization.

This is the most effective method of personnel development, each member of which can be revealed from a completely unexpected side, which will have a positive effect for him and for the organization as a whole.