What is Self Rostering?
There are some degrees of self-rostering. It can simply mean allowing staff to indicate their work shift preferences. It can also mean: creating a team that agrees amongst themselves how to allocate working time to team members.
For each shift, skill requirements should be identified and agreed upon. Then the roster has to be developed, allocating working times to members in order to meet demand and employee preferences.
Benefits of Self Rostering
- Greater productivity thanks to more flexibility
- Optimization in travel times (to non-traffic-peak times)
- Less idle time
- Greater sense of participation and decision making
- Workers can work longer hours when they can afford to, and then withdrawing the banked extra time when needed.
- Less planning time needed as less conflicts will arise.
- Higer worker retention: workers are less likely to leave for more inflexible and often more unfair manager-rostered work.
Application areas:
Industries: a.o. Health Care and Public & Professional Services
Solutions areas: Workforce Scheduling
ORTEC contribution:
ORTEC solutions like ORTEC Harmony and ORTEC Service Planning
ORTEC news:
ORTEC announces self rostering capabilities