Hi Sangeeta, Restructuring and exciting designations! I am not so sure of these going hand in hand. Last time we attempted this exercise, everyone had an opinion on the actions and many felt that their idea was better than that of our Executive Director. I wish you the best in this exercise and may you find that excitement which we had missed.
By the way you wanted information on how to group personnel.
What many institutions like us do is divide the entire population in cadres. So we have cadres like Technical staff, Administrative Staff, Support Staff and others.
Having got the cadres in place the cadre itself is further spilt into grades. These grades could be A I AII A III A IV or whatever way one wants to pile them into a hierarchy.
Having got the cadre and grades in place, we also have designations. These could be like what Namita is suggesting or you could have the ones that we have. They are Project,Team Coordinator, Group Coordinator, Program Coordinator. We also have function specific designations like Web Master, System Administrator, HRD Executive, Finance Officer, Registrar, Director and Executive Director.
Having got so much in place, you can go about making career paths across cadres. Like when a person can shift from support staff cadre to administrative Staff cadre and so on and so forth.
I feel that so many levels and variations provide us with sufficient flexibility to manoeuvre according to the needs of the situation.
I am also aware that some institutions have channels within cadres like advisors and Executives. At a specific stage in my career I will get an option as to whether I want would like only the technical work sans any business of administrative loads. Say I want to be Advisor in Database related activities or say and Expert in Networking. Then in that case I will get to do only Technical work related to projects and Business functions, Resource Management, Project Monitoring etc. will not be my botheration. However if I relish these functions and I do not wish to devote time to be after the technical knowledge then I will take managerial channel and continue on that path.
I hope I have given sufficient food for thought and not confused you with clutter. Ultimately you can decide what suits you best! Regards, Jayesh |
