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Researching & analysing issues affecting personal effectiveness

Researching & analysing issues affecting personal effectiveness. Managing programs that promote personal effectiveness. Introduction. In lesson 1 we examined a broad number of issues that impacted on performance

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Researching & analysing issues affecting personal effectiveness

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  1. Researching & analysing issues affecting personal effectiveness Managing programs that promote personal effectiveness

  2. Introduction • In lesson 1 we examined a broad number of issues that impacted on performance • As mentioned earlier employees have experienced increasing demands being made of them in the workplace • We will now look at ‘understanding issues that limit personal effectiveness’. • Health and wellbeing practices are built on the premise that employees will be more effective and productive, if they are healthier, fitter and better able to manage stress in work and in their private lives.

  3. Work-life balance programs and personal effectiveness • Activity: How has the Australian workforce change over the last decade? • More women in the workforce • The economic necessity for both husband/wife pertners to be engaged in work • More organisations required to provide services outside normal 9-5, Monday to Friday framework • An ageing workforce – loss of skills and knowledge • Rapidly changing technology – need to keep up-to-date • Increased workplace diversity e.g. different cultural backgrounds

  4. Defining BALANCE • Balance means different things to different people, finding the ‘right’ balance is the challenge for the individual to determine e.g. personal satisfaction • Self management frameworks state different dimensions • Sleep • Play • Work • Spirit • Activity: what would be the consequences of too much: • Sleep • Work • Play • Too much time devoted to spiritual pursuits

  5. Development of self knowledge and identity • What is it that motives them? • What they genuinely find enjoyable? • What they really regard as work? • Then developing ‘self-direction’ • Activity: make a log of things you do over a fortnightly period, 30 minute intervals over 24 hours, 14 days. Analyse the log in terms of the four dimensions – then express them as a %. Draw conclusions about balance in your life

  6. Review research findings & consider organisational implications • Developing health and well-being programs are part of the solution that HR can be involved in. • However both managers and employee need to take ownership • Research can done at: • Health, fitness and work-life related balance professionals • Management and HRM journals & texts • Internet searches • State and federal government publications • Trade union publications • Networking – word of mouth • Business organisations • Newspapers and magazines

  7. Developing personal effectiveness program options • Organisations need to evaluate and dapt personal effectiveness programs and strategies to meet heir specific needs. Program could include: • Stress reduction • Increased physical fitness • Reducing high blood pressure • Reducing cholesterol levels • Weight reduction • Nutrition • Reduction in tobacco, alcohol and drugs • Health risk appraisals • Cancer screening • Influenza vaccination • Mental health and suicide awareness

  8. List as five strategies: Part-time work Job sharing Flexitime Tele-commuting Compressed working weeks Leave without pay Parental leave Subsidised gym memberships Phased retirements Employee assistance programs EAP Purchased leave Rostered days off (RDO) Child care Carer’s leave Emergency services leave Annualised hours Financial planning and seminars Work-life balance strategies that have become popular over recent times

  9. Consider the personal effectiveness program just discussed, can you identify organisation that have them … discuss it in small groups Case study/reading Book Excerpt: The Seven-Day Weekend a Learning activities

  10. Obtaining management support & commitment to PEP • Management makes decisions on well developed business cases and estimated return on investment • PEP can be developed & implemented by: • Determining what employees need (want) … through surveys, group discussions and feedback from customers • Identifying business objectives e.g. reducing worker’s compensation claims, turnover statistics, absenteeism etc • Tailoring policies & programs to meet employee & business needs • Setting clear guidelines • Communicating the ‘what’ and ‘why’ • Tracking and evaluating regularly

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