Studio Staff - BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT CONSULTANTS Studio Staff is a member company of the ASSOCONSULT association and offers management consulting and other services to the business sector. Established in 1967 in Rome, it is now a leading company for diffusion of the enterprise culture and conducts studies and research on all problems of human resource management in business concerns. In its offices over 50 professional consultants have the know-how to tackle the numerous problems related to business management, organisation and information/control systems. Studio Staff operates in all areas of private enterprise, the public sector and local government. Its clients include manufacturing and service industries, multinationals, central and local public bodies and institutions, business consortia/associations and professional institutes. Studio Staff recognise that the careful and long-term management of Human Resources would be one of the main success factors in all manufacturing/service industries and business concerns, that's the reason why a greater attention to the careful selection of human resources (assessment of their motivation, aptitudes and potential), followed up by ad hoc training activities and the identification of organisation structures tailored to match the quality of the available resources, are now fundamental factors in the success of any intervention. Studio Staff's activities can be grouped into four specific sectors of intervention: MANAGEMENT AND BUSINESS ORGANISATION CONSULTANCY STAFF TRAINING HUMAN RESOURCES (Selection, assessment and development) SURVEYS AND STUDIES MANAGEMENT AND BUSINESS ORGANISATION CONSULTANCY COMPANY AREA: Strategic support, Macro-analysis and definition of organisational structures, Communication techniques, Definition of business strategies, Business culture transformation plans, Definition of responsibilities and objectives. ORGANISATION: Sizing of staff levels, Business hierarchy and analysis of responsibilities, Micro-analysis and procedures, Definition of business networks, Organisation check-up. QUALITY: Assessment of the Quality System, Analysis of customer satisfaction, Consultancy for ISO9000 Certification, Training for Quality. ADMINISTRATION AND CONTROL: Review and design of administration and control systems, Administrative organisation and procedures, Management and operative reporting, Design of financial planning and control systems. TRAINING COURSES FOR ENTREPRENEURS AND EXECUTIVES: Management of critical factors, The open-system company, Communication techniques, Business management, Human resource management, Work-group management, Leadership, Executive training, Quality as a strategic lever. COURSES FOR MANAGERS AND SPECIFIC CATEGORIES: PERSONNEL (Personnel management, Personnel assessment, Personnel selection Assessment of job positions, Training for technical training staff); COMMERCIAL (Marketing in service industries, Sales motivation, Sales techniques); MANAGEMENT (Project management, Management monitoring, Monitoring business orders). COURSES FOR FIRST-TIME JOB HUNTERS: The dynamics of group working, Business enterprise, Specific courses, Management and reporting for F.S.E. courses, Higher education for technical school/college leavers, Consultancy for regional qualification courses (level II). IN-HOUSE COURSES: Analysis, planning and tutoring for specific requirements. HUMAN RESOURCES HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT: Incentive and motivation plans, Career planning, Identification of training requirements, Compensation and wage policies, Motivation check-up. RECRUITING: Head hunting, Direct search, Using archives, Using advertisements to find qualified personnel. SELECTION: Individual interviews, Group interviews, Testing. SPECIFIC CATEGORY ASSESSMENT: Assessment of managerial ability, Assessment of potential, Assessment of job suitability. SELECTION TESTS FOR PUBLIC AND PRIVATE BODIES: Definition of 'transparent' procedures, Test preparation and execution, Automatic correction and preparation of final lists, Interviews. SURVEYS AND STUDIES WAGE SURVEYS (with data on turnover and management) on: Cross-sector surveys and Sector-specific surveys STUDIES on: business climate, business culture, human potential, organisation structures, territorial factors Follow-up for new employees Team building References Here are some significant activities Studio Staff Napoli S.r.l. carried on; some of them are within projects financed by the Italian Ministry of Labour, Ministry of Social Security and Ministry of University and Research, and by European Social Fund (ESF).