Personnel
Administration
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Personnel Administration
The complex of specific activities
distinctly engaged in by the
employing agency ( school district
, other unit of government , or
business enterprise) to make a
pointed effort to secure the greatest
possible worker effectiveness
consistent with the agency’s
objectives.
Problems of
personnel
administration
are somewhat
proportionate
to the size and
complexity of
the
organization.
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Objectives of Personnel
Administration
Todo whatever is necessary to make
certain that all school employees have the
competencies needed for their
respective jobs , the will to use their
abilities in optimum fashion and the
working conditions under which each can
exercise and improve his competency in
such a way that the educational job of the
schools will be done with utmost
effectiveness.
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Principles of Personnel
Administration
1. Education is
the primary
purpose of
schools
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Principles of Personnel
Administration
2. The objectives of
the schools are
functionality
derived from the
people who have
created them as
institutions to meet
those needs that
they want fulfilled
through formal
education.
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Principles of Personnel
Administration
3. The people
who have
instituted the
schools and all
employees
within the
school system
have the same
basic interest.
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Principles of Personnel
Administration
4. Maximum
effectiveness of the
means for achieving
the people’s
mandates regarding
education requires
the best possible
selection and
coordination of all
elements comprising
those means.
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Principles of Personnel
Administration
5. School
employees
are not
commodities
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Principles of Personnel
Administration
6. Employees
have a private
life and a
right to the
privacy of
their own
affairs.
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Principles of Personnel
Administration
7. The human
factor is a
variable.
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Principles of Personnel
Administration
8. The most important
single factor in
getting the best that
a school employee
has to offer is how
he feels about his
work, his associates
on the job, and the
school system in
which he is
employed.
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Principles of Personnel
Administration
9. Esteem for
intelligence and
potential of the
employee group is a
basic necessity and
may be
demonstrated by
the employer group
through acts of
confidence.
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Principles of Personnel
Administration
10. Employee
problems
have to be
dealt with in
terms of the
situation or
the conditions
at hand.
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Principles of Personnel
Administration
11. All
participants
in an
enterprise
are entitled
to fair
dealing.
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Principles of Personnel
Administration
12. The
relationships
among
employees and
between them
and their
employers can
to a large extent
be summed up.
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The Problem of Personnel
Administration
To make and keep clear the
concept of personnel as
employees who make a
contribution to the carrying
out of policies through
which the educational
program is to be made
effective.
Insure
lines of communication which are open
upwards, downwards, and sideways , with
safeguards in case some channel becomes blocked.
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The Functions of School
Personnel Administration
Engender among employees a warranted
conviction that the lines of communication
are for their use , that use of them is urged
and welcome, and that their use carriers
with it no threat of penalty or prejudice.
Gather case data from which to ascertain the
kinds of problems there are, what their
causes seem to be and what solutions are
suggested in the way of preventive or
corrective measures.
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The Functions of School
Personnel Administration
Have the flexibility to devise and use
whatever means are called for to meet the
problem rather than to fall back on cliches
and pat formulas which may be gratifying to
the user while helping not all in solving the
problem at hand.
Take the necessary measures progressively
to establish fairness in all employment
relations and conditions , eliminating even
the appearance of injustice.
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The Functions of School
Personnel Administration
Regard and use the occurrence of each
vacancy as a golden opportunity to
reappraise the job in terms of its specifics
and its relationships within the organization
of the school system.
Develop an initially tentative written set of
personnel policies which will be modified
, deleted from , or added to in the light of
experience and as a cooperative personnel
and personnel administration project.
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Development of School Personnel
Administration
It has developed in various ways beginning with the exercise
of the hiring-firing activities , and all that went in between
, by the board of education itself.
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Scope or the Personnel
Administration Activity
Coordinating individuals , jobs , place of work , time of work
, and the equipment and supplies for working.
Democratic
Philosophy
Pragmatic
Philosophy
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Essentials in School Personnel
Administration
Do what is necessary to recruit manpower pool of competent
individuals from which to select needed employees.