Hi TimAs mentioned in some of the earlier answers, you could talk to your team and let them know the importance of timely submissions. Most members would be understanding enough to fall in line.You may also want to find out why they are submitting late - do you ask them to track too often? Is that much tracking necessary? You may want to do some introspection and simplify it a bit for your team...Check out this post on increasing timesheet adoption:http://www.replicon.com/blog/top-10-ways��
tell them if the time sheets are not into you by 10am Monday morning, they don t get paid until the following week and then FOLLOW THAT RULE - I doubt they will be late more than onceand/or if you pay people any kind o f bonuses or something - tell them each time they DON T have their time sheet in to you by 10am Monday, they will lose 25% of any potential bonus for that entire YEAR - 4 times late and NO BONUS at all that year - more Bonus money to pay everyone elsethat way the people that follow the rules get rewarded more
Well my former company s time sheets were done electronically. We would tap our card for the punch in. At the end of those two weeks, our employer would use his access to print out the sheets for us to sign.However there were times where either he was late submitting the sheet to accounting or times where one of us would be out for the day.Anyway, it s best if you personally brought this sort of thing up in a meeting with your employees. You ll always get late time sheets, but the best thing to do is to try your best to cut the number of late submissions down.
Tell your employees that you are giving them one more week to submit their time cards on time. Then you are going to submit your weekly or biweekly to whomever. If their time cards on not in your hands by the required time limit, you will assume they don t want a paycheck this time around. Period. Submit the paperwork without their time card. Probably won t happen again. You have to set a deadline and stick to it. Without exception. No time card, no paycheck.
Hi Tim, My manager was in the same position as youHe spoke to all of us individually (whether we were guilty or not) also as a team. He told us he would get his butt kicked from his superiors if we didnt submit it on time. That seemed to do the trick. Maybe your team doesnt realise the problems it causes you? Lay a guilt trip on them, it could work.Good luck.
I think incentives are the best way to get results. First like others said, tell them you really need them on time. You want to do something to give them an incentive to help motivate them, but please out of respect to have them in on time. As for an incentive, can you offer them an hour off work? Maybe all that get them in on time get their name in a hat and draw for an hour to leave early on Friday? If they can t leave early, then a special parking space close to the door? Maybe a lottery ticket. You can get restaurant.com gift certificates for like $10 and sometimes they have a deal for them cheaper. Maybe give the winner a certificate. Maybe have a bigger prize that they get a ticket every week and at the end of the year all the weekly tickets go into a hat for a bigger prize.
Simple Your the boss No time-sheets , No payIf your a manager or team leader you can`t get your staff to do such a procedure then frankly the position is beyond your capabilities
Tell their slacking asses that you ...depend on it, the company depends on it, and keeping their job depends on it....
