Workforce Productivity - Best Practices

IT Job Descriptions

Steps to improve IT workforce productivity include:

Workforce Productivity - Best Practices

  • Develop a strong team orientation - Effective teams and the effective planning and execution provide the structure necessary to get the best from all team members.  Well written job descriptions are a first step in that process.

  • Align roles and performance objectives - Change causes by today's business environment causes misalignments of roles and focus of a significant number of the workforce.  Job descriptions that are results and metric driven are an essential tool in the management process.

  • Set performance goals and manage workforce with that as the focus - A majority of the workforce performs better if they have specific goals they must achieve.  Good job description include measurable goals.

  • Evaluate workforce based on defined objectives and goals  - Review job performance based on job content and metrics to see how they can be modified to improved organizational productivity and minimize organizational dysfunction. 

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