Library leadership column: Resource management: people: skills management Available to Purchase

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the part that managing skill sets plays in practicing the performance standard of managing people effectively.

The approach is to differentiate between organizing staff positions around job functions and organizing staff positions around the skills that individuals bring to the positions.

The findings are that individuals are more productive when they have the chance to use their unique skill sets rather than having to do tasks for which they have little or no skills simply because those tasks are part of a larger function.

The value is in learning how to advance organizational goals through effective use of employee skill sets.