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How To Manage Your Shift Pattern Holidays and Absences The aim of this 234 page book is to provide you with the tools and techniques to make a shift pattern run smoothly. The main objective of any shift pattern is to ensure you have the right people with the correct skills when and where you want them. The major issues, which are going to prevent you from achieving this objective, are staff holidays and absences. Therefore the two key topics of this book are how to organise staff holidays and staff absences so that they do not effect the operation. In this eye-opening book CDT shows us how to effectively manage holidays, absences and create a shift pattern that actually manages itself. Key topics covered in this book include: · Calculating How Many Staff You Need · Different Types of Shift Patterns · Holiday Management · Holidays Included Shift Patterns · Holidays Excluded Shift Patterns · Shift Cover Arrangements · Banked Hours · Fatigue and Shift Work · Incorporate Training into your Shift Pattern · Terms and Conditions of Employment · Implementing a New Shift Pattern

Training Seminar CDT02: How To Manage Your Shift Pattern The seminar covers everything you need to know to manage holidays and absences. The aim of this seminar is to provide you with the tools and techniques to make a shift pattern run smoothly. The main objective of any shift pattern is to ensure you have the right people, with the correct skills, when and where you want them. The main issues, which are going to prevent you from achieving this objective, are staff holidays and absences. It is applicable to anyone who manages shifts and would like to improve their methods for dealing with the day-to-day problems associated with managing shifts. Detailed seminar agenda - click here

“How To Manage Your Shift Pattern” is a new and exciting book from CDT. An essential management reference book that no manager should be without. It is unique in its analysis of the problems facing shift pattern managers today. This book outlines the main problems in running a shift pattern and offers a set of solutions to encompass all circumstances. Complete with summary pages, worked examples and example shift patterns this book will help any manager run their shift pattern perfectly and effortlessly.

The main problem facing all shift pattern managers is how to accommodate all of the holidays within the year and not have it effect the operation. The answer is of course to plan for the holidays in advance. With the correct shift pattern with the proper holiday management planning in place a shift pattern manager can manage the holidays of over a 100 people on less than ˝ hour per day. This book contains a range of solutions for holiday management along with examples and detailed explanations of how to implement them within your organisation.

Once the holidays are sorted the next problem facing shift pattern managers will be absences. Absences have always caused problems because often they are at short notice and whatever cover arrangements are in place there is always that chance that they will still break down at the vital moment. In “How To Manage Your Shift Pattern” the different types of absences are discussed, including what an absence rate actually means in practice. A wide range of solutions is discussed along with examples of how to incorporate the cover arrangements into the shift pattern.

Along with holidays and absences a host of other interconnected issues are also covered in this book including:
· Banked hours (or Reserved hours)
· Training
· Skills mix
· Fatigue
· Terms and conditions of employment
· Annualised hours
· How to implement a new shift pattern

However what makes this book truly unique is that it answers the age-old question “How many staff do I need?” This book takes you through the calculations with several worked examples so that you can ascertain quickly and easily if you are under or over staffed.

Once you know how many staff you need, the next step is to choose a shift pattern. This book discusses the advantages and disadvantages of the main categories of shift patterns available to you and has 31 example shift patterns set out for a whole year.

In this one volume, the main problems of running a shift pattern are discussed, a variety of solutions are offered to fit any circumstance and then the implementation of a new shift pattern is also covered. In short this book contains everything a shift manager needs to run the perfect shift pattern for them.

This book is ideal for anyone running a shift pattern, creating a new shift pattern, negotiating a shift pattern, up to the human resources department writing the terms of employment. No matter what size or type of organisation you are in, “How To Manage Your Shift Pattern” is essential for you.

CDT is a management consultancy company specialising in shift pattern design. We help companies to organise and run their shift patterns effectively and efficiently. We assist companies from conception of the design through to negotiations and migration planning. Currently we are in the process of publishing a complete collection of reference books to assist managers in creating, moving and running a new shift pattern that is perfect for them. “How To Manage Your Shift Pattern” is the first book in this series.

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