Roadmap to Manage Personnel in Pharmaceutical Manufacturing

Excerpt from the GMP Compliance Adviser

Employees are more than just production and cost factors. Pharmaceutical companies need employees with proper qualifications who are in the right place at the right time if their highly differentiated manufacturing and test processes are to function properly.

For this reason, the deployment of human resources (human capital) must be carefully planned and organised. Regular training of employees is an important requirement which ensures that the employees can carry out their tasks in accordance with GMP.

In order to assist you in successful human resource management and training, we have compiled this detailed roadmap. Every page offers practical implementation strategies and answers to crucial questions, including:

• What are the principles of modern human resource management?
• What are the tasks of human resource management?
• What are the GMP-relevant tasks of senior management in a company?
• How is training planned and organised?
• What are learning objectives and how are they achieved?
• What training methods are available?
• How can training success be measured?

It deals with the following issues:

Human Resource Management

• Principles of human resource management
• Duties of senior management
• Organisational structures
• Single-line systems
• Multiple-line systems
• Qualification requirements and requirement profiles
• Workplace and job descriptions

Training

• Purpose of training
• Legal basis
• Responsibility for training
• Persons who have to be trained
• Setting learning objectives
• Organisation of training
• Trainer qualification
• Training methods
• Electronic training systems
• E-learning/Computer-based training
• Web-based training
• Blended Learning
• Learning management systems
• Success and effectiveness monitoring
• Training system review
• Documentation of training