Employee Attributes

Employee Attributes

 

An attribute is a quality or feature regarded as a characteristic or part of someone or something. People applying to work at the rainbow charity will need a certain set of job specific skills. They will also need to know how to create talking books and put them on to CDs, this is a job specific skill.

Specific Attributes

Job-related attributes are very specific to a particular organization or role. The need for these attributes may change depending on the functional department and your position. The need for technical knowledge is very personal and job specific.

A job specific attribute would be IT & software skills. The company can’t hire people that aren’t capable of doing the work. For example the applicants need to be able to create audiobooks and instruction booklets on how to use them so if they can’t do that then they aren’t of much use to the company.

Software skills

Applicants to the job may need to have skills in Microsoft Word or PowerPoint to make the blog look good, this is important for getting the blog to perfect for the target audience. Applicants will need to have database making skills.

 General Attributes Skills

Planning skills

Organisational skills

Time management

Team working

Verbal skills

Written communication skills

Numeracy

Creativity

Attitudes

People applying to Rainbow would need to be dependable so the manager can trust them  to get work done. The manager needs to know that their employees are trustworthy and can be left to do work. If they aren’t dependable then the manager wont be confident in them which may result in the employee losing their job.

People who are hired to work on blogs will need to be confident in what they are talking about so that they can consistently update the blog with useful important information.

They need to be motivated and their work rate needs to be consistent. If they are not motivated and consistent then the standard of the work produced by the company would slip.

Rainbow Volunteers need to have self motivation as there are no wages to motivate them to work. Volunteers need to have suficient time and resources to help them in their role.

Communication Skills

Verbal

Verbal communication consists of speaking clearly, keeping calm and being able to talk effectively with your co-workers. If the employees can remain calm and polite it will benifit the the process of the company. You will use verbal communication when consulting customers or when you are recording your voice for the talking books. If you are speaking in a talking book you need to have a loud, clear, friendly voice which is easy to listen to. This is to keep the customers happy, if they didn’t like listening to the voice in the talking books then they would not want to keep buying the books.

Non-Verbal

Non verbal communicationare things like gestures, body languages or just other ways to generally communicate with someone or something without using your voice. This would be used in the job a lot as you would be required to send a lot of emails or talk to customers via letters etc.