As you know, for the effective development of the company it is important to have a close-knit team of competent specialists. A tool such as staff rotation provides an opportunity to grow experienced workers directly within the organization. In order to carry out this activity, it is necessary to obtain the written consent of the displaced employee.
Personnel rotation is the transfer of personnel to various positions within the same organization.
Types of rotation
There are several classifications of this tool.
According to the trajectory of rotation, rotation happens:
- ring, i.e. transfer from post to post in a certain time period, but at the end the employee returns to his original position;
- irrevocable, i.e. transfer to another position without returning to the original position;
- castling - the exchange of positions between two employees within the same horizontal level.
The frequency or speed of staff movement is annual, monthly, daily, hourly.
In terms of specialization, personnel rotation is carried out:
- in related specialty;
- in a completely different specialty;
- by a similar, but with a different nature of work;
- in the same specialty, but with minor changes in the nature of the work.
The rotation may be initiated by the administration of the organization, the personnel management service, the employee himself.
Event purpose
Personnel rotation is carried out in order to train employees in new related professions in order to make them universal specialists. This event allows staff to familiarize themselves with the largest number of tasks to be solved in the organization. The rotation of personnel checks the flexibility of employees, their ability to navigate in unusual situations, allows you to create a reserve of personnel, the management team of the enterprise.
Event Benefits
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.
- It helps to increase the interchangeability of employees, which is important in connection with vacations, illnesses, increasing the volume of tasks in any of the sites.
- Improves the communication of employees of the organization, there is a healthy competition.
- Reduces the cost of training employees, eliminates the need for costly training to master the necessary professional skills.
- Reduces the cost of finding specialists in the labor market.
- Reduces staff turnover.
Difficulties in staff rotation
This event has its own difficulties that can be minimized if you know about them in advance.
Sometimes, due to prolonged or prolonged adaptation of an employee to a new position , labor productivity decreases . Training costs for displaced people may occur. The rotation of personnel with improper organization of personnel causes conflicts between employees: sometimes people refuse to move from “good” positions to, in their opinion, “bad” ones. Rearrangement in such cases should be carried out correctly, and difficult and light positions should be equally distributed. At the same time, explanatory work among employees should be carried out, explaining what rotation of personnel is, indicating its goals, advantages for each employee, etc.
Often, managers and personnel managers ask themselves how to deal with people who have a highly specialized profession, i.e. accountants, programmers, lawyers, etc. It is believed that all employees of the enterprise should be in an equal position, that is, you need to move them too.
The personnel rotation system can be considered the key to a successful organization.
This is the most effective method of personnel development, each member of which may reveal itself from a completely unexpected side, which will have a positive effect both for him and for the whole organization.