PEOPLE MANAGEMENT
Managing Capability - A one day course for line managers

Course Programme

• Introduction and objectives for the day
• The legal framework
  
  • The contract of employment
  • Unfair dismissal
  • Capability as a reason for dismissal
  • Disability Discrimination and capability
  Managing poor performance
  
  • Setting clear standards
  • Measuring performance
  • Informal measures
  • Formal capability procedures
  • Dealing with counter allegations of bullying or stress-related illness
  Dismissal for poor performance
  
  • An opportunity to improve
  • Training and support
  • Offers of alternative work
  • Demotion as an alternative to dismissal
  • Following the right procedure
  Managing attendance
  
  • Reasons for absence
  • Measuring the impact of absence
  • Key strategies in absence management
  • Long-term vs short-term absence
  • The 'return to work interview'
  Dismissal for poor attendance
  
  • Medical investigations and absence
  • Disability discrimination and the duty to make reasonable adjustments
  • Light work and redeployment
  • Industrial injury - absence caused by the employer
  • Dismissals for persistent short-term absence
  Final Questions and review of morning's objectives
  
  Close of Course