personnel development

Is demographic change a nightmare being completely at mercy as a business owner? Or is it rather offering opportunities? Demographic changes are only one factor for a successful business development. Along with other challenges to the company’s development, it can be used as an opportunity: Planning and taking measures in the medium and long term on individual, collective and organizational levels will result in a change of leadership.

Additional to the consideration of technological and organisational aspects as well personnel adjustments have to be considered in time during the introduction of new manufacturing technologies. Reasons for a systematic personnel development are technological changes, e.g. the introduction of new products and manufacturing processes or a modified manufacturing programme. Especially the number and the qualification of the employees who are affected by these changes have to be adjusted to the new requirements. The method of the personnel-oriented technology calendar which is presented in this article provides a systematic and targeted personnel development planning. The approach is demonstrated by means of an application example.

In the face of constantly changing market conditions and the associated product and technology changes the available personnel structures must be considered in particular during the further development of manufacturing sys-tems. Experiences from operational practice show that personnel development measures are usually reactive and are often carried out in an improvised, ad-hoc manner. In order to counteract such reactive measures, the technology calendar, with which a timely and targeted personnel development planning can be initiated, is presented.