Personnel development is a key issue for small businesses, particularly companies which employ less than one hundred people. While marketing and finance and accounting are given precedence in small businesses, owners typically deal with personnel development themselves, rather than take on or employ educated and trained personnel developers. Why is this the case and are small business owners denying themselves an opportunity which would help to grow their business? Research has shown that large businesses, due to the number of employees involved and the complications which can ensue from hiring so many people, are very likely to employ personnel specialists, but that small business owners tend to handle this task on their own and believe that they are capable of this task. In an article by Jeffrey S. Hornsby and Donald F. Kuratko, they describe how the majority of small businesses lack any sort of comparable or logical compensation plan for their employees, lack a standard format of personnel treatment which can be compared with major company and industry standards, and lack the appropriate and qualified personnel managers who would be responsible for some of the specialized tasks which company owners tend to take upon themselves. In this scenario, drug and alcohol testing is one of the greatest ways for personnel managers to keep track of employee safety and behavioral data, knowing who is clean and how long they have been so.
Drug and alcohol screening is also appropriate for business owners who still wish to retain a certain amount of direct control over employee management functions. For these individuals, workplace drug testing can be one of the safest and easiest parts of compiled employee evaluations, and it can even be an automatic process, where an outside company comes in and contributes their expertise to your business.
Whether you put employee drug and alcohol testing under the supervision of a personnel director or you take it on directly yourself, you can benefit from an onsite drug and alcohol screening company coming in, testing your employees, and leaving your employee testing data and paperwork in your own business, for privacy’s sake. Call Mediscreen today: (+61) 1300 79 70 40.
