AIM
To develop management strategies for human resources in a recreation or fitness service, or facility.
CONTENTS
Lessons are structured as follows:
- Work Schedules
- Work Teams
- Workplace Efficiency
- Recruitment
- Staff Performance
- Workplace Communications
- Staff Grievances
- Developing a Staff Manual
LEARNING OUTCOMES
- To manage work schedules.
- Manage a work team
- Develop work team performance, to improve productivity and efficiency
- Manage the recruitment of new staff.
- Manage performance of individual members of staff.
- Maintain good communication with staff.
- Deal with staff grievances.
- Produce a staff manual for a workplace.
EXAMPLES OF WHAT YOU MAY DO IN THIS COURSE
- Prepare a work schedule, in accordance with a given job specification.
- List items of information which legally must be maintained in staff records.
- Explain different methods of maintaining work records.
- Calculate pay for a specified case study, including deductions for taxation and superannuation.
- Write a procedure for the maintenance of essential work records, in a specified recreation workplace, and in accordance with Quality Assurance Standard 9002.
- Explain different delegation techniques appropriate to a specified recreation workplace.
- Develop procedures to ensure different work tasks in a recreation workplace are performed in accordance with employer policy.
- Plan work programs, for different situations, including
- delivery of a specified activity program
- maintenance of a specified recreation facility.
- Develop a procedure to monitor work performance which satisfies the Quality Assurance Standard 9002.
- Develop criteria for evaluating team performance in different situations.
- Evaluate performance of a team, using criteria developed in 3.1.
- Analyse evaluation made of the performance of a work team.
- Develop recommendations for improvement of work team performance evaluation.
- Develop a summary for a work team training program, in response to specified recommendations which have been developed.
- Analyse staff needs in different recreation workplaces you visit, to determine areas where adjustments may be desirable for allocated manpower hours.
- Explain the purpose of job specifications, including control of work tasks.
- Develop strategies to locate potential employees, for different specified situations in the recreation industry, detailing those strategies.
- Write copy for specified job advertisements, including
- a classified of thirty five words
- a small display advertisement.
- List criteria for staff selection, in a specified situation.
- Plan a standard job interview, in accordance with a given job specification, to run for twenty minutes.
- Explain initiation procedures for a new member of staff, in accordance with a given job specification and specified situation.
- Define quot;probation period quot; in a specific workplace.
- Compare the legal implications of recruiting new staff in accordance with different specified procedures.
- Explain differences in staff recruitment processes in different large organisations.
- Explain different methods of assessing work productivity.
- Design an Employee Performance Appraisal Form for a specified situation in the recreation industry.
- List difficulties in using employee appraisal forms.
- Evaluate the performance of different employees, in different recreation workplaces, using staff appraisal forms.
- Develop a list of procedures to review changes, in the skills of an employee.
- Explain career advancement opportunities for staff in different recreation workplaces you investigate.
- Explain career paths for different different specified recreation industry jobs using illustrations.
- Explain the purpose of staff meetings in a specified recreation organisation.
- Explain the effectiveness of communication systems between staff and management in different, specific, recreation organisations.
- Write an organisational procedure, to provide management with feedback from employees on any work related issues.
- Explain different techniques of conflict resolution, appropriate to a specified problem in the workplace.
- List guidelines for maintaining morale in a workplace.
- Explain different types of grievance, in a specific workplace.
- Explain the role of an employee or union representative in dealing with a grievance.
- Explain the role of a supervisor in dealing with a grievance in a specific case study.
- List guidelines to follow when dealing with a grievance.
- Develop a formal procedure for dealing with grievances in a specified workplace situation.