It’s usually seen that employees have to manage a lot of pressure in their day to day working schedule. Generally,
due to the heavy load of work, the working environment might become stressful, due to which employee may not be able to work properly or we can say that he might not able to concentrate on his work properly. This might create many issues like the quality of the work may get effected or he might not able to get the work done in the allotted time. It may result in efficiency and accuracy of an employee in doing his work getting reduced. However, continous work may also affect the health of an employee, which will result in absenteeism and this will affect the productivity of an organization. Hence to avoid the loss of productivity and to give an employee a break from this stressful working environment, each and every organization has a vacation policy. We can also call it as leave policy for employee vacations. Employee Vacations period varies from organization to organization and from designation to designation. However, each and every employee does have a right to take a vacation. However, when it comes to managing employee vacations by a manager, it is really a tough job for him, as he always has to check that while giving or granting the vacation to an employee, the work is not affected. A manager can make the tough job simpler if he follows the following tips before and after granting employee vacations:1) Always ask your employees to plan their vacations in advance, so that there won’t be staffing problem for the particular day. 2) Most of the time it happens that more than one employee asks for vacation on the same day. This is the time when the manager needs to analyze the overall work load for the day and then take appropriate decisions. If not sure of the work load, he needs to analyze the reason for the vacation and the most valid one must be taken into consideration.3) Sometimes the manager can end up in a difficult situation where he will have to grant employee vacations to more than one employee (for example if one employee wants vacation for his marriage and the other employee asks for vacation as one of his family member has expired then in this case you have no option other than granting vacation to both of them) in such situations you must arrange for a back-up who can manage the work load for that day.4) Manager must always make sure that when a particular employee goes on vacation his work must be distributed amongst other employees so that when he comes back there should not be any work pending. The work must not be affected due to one or two persons on vacation and this is the duty of the manager to maintain a smooth flow of work even after absenteeism of few employees.
Employee Vacations – Let the Employees Feel that They are Cared For
