Human resource management

1. Skills Inventory

2. Meaning
• The major tool to asses the current supply of
employee is skills inventory
• Listing of abilities, capacities, qualifications,
and career goals of the employees to identify
suitable candidates for internal
recruitment or promotions

3. Skill Inventory Format
It consist of list of:
• names
• characteristics
• Skills
It provides a way to acquire these data and
makes them available wherever needed

5. Contents of skill inventories
• Once the decision has been made hr manager
decides what information should be contained
in the system
Components:
1.Data summarizing the employee’s past
2.Data summarizing the status of the present
skills
3.Data that focus on the future

6. Data summarizing of the employee’s
past
• A. Titles and brief job description highlights
from positions held in the last 2 to 5 years.
• B. Critical skills needed or developed while in
these positions
• C. Educational achievements
• D. Significant special projects accomplished
during the last 3 years

7. Data summarization of the present
skills
• A. Skill related highlights: last 3 performance
appraisals
• B. Employee’s perception of what is done well
on present job.
• C. Some data from employee’s supervisor

8. Data that focus on future
• A. Personal career goals
• B. Views of the individual’s superior
• C. Specific training and development efforts
the individual is motivated to undertake.