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The HR department will help you post jobs and conduct inter-
views. It will also take care of routine payroll and payroll tax
responsibilities.
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If you have departmental control over HR resources, that means
that you are given a block budget for staff salaries and you
decide how it should be allocated. You can decide to have more
people and pay each person less or to have fewer people and
pay them more. However, you usually will not have the authori-
ty to transfer money between your staff budget and your
expense budget.
In some cases, you may even have some degree of control
over the total size of the department’s HR budget. You can pre-
pare a departmental staffing plan and budget, and then lobby to
get the money that you need to get the work done.
You may decide not to reorganize your department at all.
Perhaps you think that the current structure gets the job done
well. If so, then you simply need to prepare a HR budget with
the help of the HR department and accounting. If
Incentives That Work
Here are some pointers for defining incentives that actually
improve teamwork and results:
• Use half of the incentive money for incentives for the whole team
when it meets departmental goals and half for incentives for each
person.
• Develop clear, objective measurements of results and give incentives
for goals that are achieved.
• Sit down with each team member and help him or her understand
the key measure of productivity for the job.Then give an incentive
based on that key measurement.
• Make sure that the measures for incentives are clear, fair, attainable,
and understood by everyone.
• For incentives related to teamwork, let the team have some of the
say in deciding who gets rewarded.
• Remember that incentives are not only about money.A hearty, pub-
lic thank-you for work well done is greatly appreciated.