The Stairway is designed as a tool to support managers in their manpower planning. If you do not have a fully developed HR system in your company then The Stairway can help. Clicking on the relevant steps on The Stairway will reveal, a very brief outline Job Description for the role concerned.
If that role is relevant to the organisation, then the list of tasks involved in the role can be used to produce a more formal job description or even a job advert. When the relevant tasks have been selected from the list, the job description can be further developed by selecting from the list of competency statements that apply to each job. A total of 470 competency statements are contained within the 12 steps of The Stairway so you will not be limited for choice!
Once a job description has been established for each role, you have something against which to recruit staff and something on which to base their induction period. The competences and tasks outlined in the job description can then also be used to develop objectives and can form the basis of an appraisal system.
The Stairway is also a useful device to plan development of the workforce to fill vacancies from within rather than the relatively more expensive option of recruitment.
