Recruiting, Selecting and Motivating the Best Staff
To get and keep the best people takes thought and planning. You need careful selection techniques, well designed positions, comptetitive salary policies, well thought out benefits and a motivating culture. These sites help you succeed.
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In order to hire, develop or appraise people you need to have clear, up-to-date job descriptions. Though this resource is written for small businesses, they have much in common with small nonprofits so the comments here are relevant.Ohio State University -
For a complete overview of the main ways to select the best people for your organization and their pros and cons, see HR Guide, an amazing website for HR professionals in all types of organizationsHR Guide -
Interviewing potential candidates for a job in your organization requires organization and skill. Carter McNamara covers this from the nonprofit organization perspective in Basics of Interviewing Job Candidates.Authenticity Consulting -
Doing reference checks and criminal records checks on potential staff who will work with vulnerable populations (children, people with disabilities and frail adults) are must-do's. On the other hand, privacy concerns create limits on how much one can get from them. See this source for how to get the most out of them.All Biz.com -
If you have to hire high level people like Executive Directors or other professionals and arenâNonprofit Professionals Advisory Group -
Finding and choosing the best staff is one thing but keeping them and getting their best work is something else. See this source for many tips on performance management.HR Council for the Voluntary and Nonprofit Sector -
An introduction and guide to performance management for staff and executive directors.HR Council for the Non Profit Sector -
These days there seem to be growing differences between the generations. What motivates an agine boomer can be quite differt from what motivates people in their 20s and 30s. This article helps you to rethink your HR policies in the light of these differences.Human Resources Council -
The invaluable HR Council has provided revised and extended guidelines for how to handle performance appraisals so they have a positive impact on motivation rather than the opposite.The Human Resources Council -
Compensation includes salaries, benefits and perquisites. Compensation policies affect your ability to recruit the best person for the job and can influence job satisfaction. This is a great introduction to compensation management.National Council of Volunteer Organizations, U.K. -
It's not always easy to decide how much to pay in salaries for various kinds of positions. The usual practice is to start locally by checking to see if there are relevant community based salary surveys. Sometimes associations of nonprofits in the same 'business' also do such surveys. To get an idea of the kinds of salaries paid for nonprofit positions elsewhere, check out this site. It refers to the U.S but still give you a ballpark estimate for salaries in Canada.Abbott Langer Association Surveys -
Many nonprofits have difficulty deciding what benefit plans, if any, they should put in place.The government of Canada provides this site which contains links to other sites dealing with all aspects of employee benefit plans in CanadaGovernment of Canada