Are you worried about managing the multiple types of leaves taken by numerous employees at various times? Do you want to manage the leaves of employees effectively? Do you want to make sure, that every minute of work done by your employees is recorded in the attendance management system and used for justifying the payment made to them?
Employee leaves and attendance are very critical aspects of any organization.
On the one hand, the Employees should be encouraged to take leaves because it leads to employee happiness and growth in productivity, but unplanned leaves can affect productivity negatively due to the shortage of staff.
So, managing the balance between leaves and the presence of the employees becomes a critical activity for the management. The responsibility of leave management comes to HR. Even when the employees are not on leave, it is important to track their attendance since it is directly linked to payroll. If an employee is marked present for a day, it is the responsibility of the organization to pay the employee for that day. Thus, employee attendance needs to be maintained with utmost care. This too comes under the ambit of the responsibilities of the HR department.
In this course, we would look at the activities that the HR department performs to manage the leaves and attendance of the employees. So, by the end of this course, you will be able to
Identify the significance and important concepts in leave and attendance management.
Describe the functions of HR in the process of leave and attendance management.
Draft a sample leave and attendance policy for an organization with 10-20 employees.
We will start our discussion with the function of leave management, performed by the HR department and will proceed further to the function of attendance management.
