Determine staffing needs at your workplace

Think about your current position or a position you have held at a previous workplace.

• Obtain the formal position description (or write one if one does not exist).
• Analyse the position description.
• Prepare an anlysis of the reasons the position exists. Highlight the roles, relationships and responsibilities of the position and outline the organisational needs that determines these.

Identify a staffing gap in your workplace and describe why the gap exists. (Outline the organisational needs that determine the gap.)

Develop a list of staffing requirements for closing the gap. Your list should consider:

• how many new staff are needed
• existing staff who could be utilised, explaining how.