Personnel Plan

You will create a personnel plan for two new employee positions.

Your personnel plans should include a tentative work schedule and payroll cost worksheet. You will need to create work schedules that include the hours for these positions; this work schedule can be revised in later classes. If your place of business does not have a steady work schedule you will need to base the schedules on a busy time in order to estimate how many hours per year that person(s) will actually work. Use the Work Schedule Template for this.

In order to budget for two new employees, you will need to create a payroll cost worksheet to include the employees’ pay, payroll taxes, any benefits you would like to offer (medical benefits, 401K, etc.), and the total cost.  You may need to research average salaries for the positions you will fill. Use the Payroll Cost Sheet as an example, and click on the links below to access information on Michigan Taxes and other important resources for creating your Personnel Plan.

http://www.michigan.gov/taxes/0,1607,7-238-43531-155476--,00.html

www.ssa.gov

www.michigan.gov

www.irs.gov

Your next step will be to create a job description. 

Define who you are, what you need, who you need. List your core values. What is the mission of your business? Based on your answer to “who you need,” you will prepare a job description for two new employee positions for your business. If you are a sole proprietor, make one for yourself and one additional position.  You may not be able to hire employees right away, but your goal is to grow your business. As you grow, you may be able to hire an employee(s).

Your job descriptions should include:

• Job title
• FLSA Status
• Prepared date
• Job Summary
• Essential duties and responsibilities
• Supervisory responsibilities (if applicable)
• Qualifications which includes:
• • Education and/or experience
  • Language skills
  •  Mathematical skills
  • Reasoning ability
  • Certificates, licenses, registrations
• Physical demands
• Work environment
• How to apply for this job and how/where the information should be sent