1. CATEGORIES AND FUNCTIONS

1. Administrative Staff is responsible from the issues related with the planning, finance, marketing, public relations, human and animal resources, purchasing and operations management.
2. Technical Staff is important as much as show people. They support the circus activities beginning from the settlement of the circus until the last show. Although they are not seen on the stage, their contribution to successful show is indispensable at the backstage. The technical staff consists of: carpenters, electricians, decorators, choreographers, tailors, make-up artists, lighting staff, DJs, construction workers.

 

3. Show people are the shining stars of the stage for whom the audience come to see actually. Attractivity of the circus show directly depends on the quality and performance of these showmen. The variety in the shows is a crucial factor in the satisfaction of the audience. These talented people would be composed of: show master, clowns, trapezists, magicians, jugglers, tight-rope performers, sword swallowers, knife throwers, acrobats, Big Top, stilt walkers, slack-rope performers, animal trainers, Turkish traditional shadow play artist, singers, dancers and the circus band.

 

4. Overhead Staff carry out the routine daily work of the circus that do not have a direct effect on the shows. The overhead personnel is composed of: cleaning personnel, security personnel, drivers, doctor and veterinarian, cooking staff and porters.

• The technical and overhead personnel can be considered as multi-skilled personnel. For example, our porters can be used as assistants of decorators or our security personnel can be used as drivers.

  B ) SOCIO ECONOMIC AND CULTURAL ENVIRONMENT
 

• This personnel must have no constraint on travelling
• Minimum level of spoken English is required for technical and show personnel ; high level of written and spoken English is required for administrative personnel; English or Turkish Language can be accepted for overhead personnel.

• Show personnel should be charged for training activities of novices scheduled by the circus management
• All the employees should be open-minded and have empathy, which are the two basic requirements of human relationships in an intercultural environment
• Administrative personnel should have past experience in entertainment business

4. AVAILABILITY AND RECRUITMENT

The location of the circus headquarters, being near to a metropol like Istanbul, creates an advantage in recruiting qualified administrative and technical personnel. In addition, overhead personnel can be employed from the surroundings of headquarters. For different types of shows, show groups or families can be searched in all over the world. Famous groups or individuals can be contracted ofcourse with high transfer cost. However, these transfer costs should not be seen as financial burdens since they will bring out the circus brand to a more prestigious status while increasing the customer demand, and hence the profit margin. Moreover, we consider transferring show people from Far East Countries or Russia which would provide cheaper work force.

E ) TRAINING PLAN

In accordance with the implementation plan, progressive approach would be taken in the development of the circus show. At the first stage, constructing of headquarters, infant animals would be purchased and the respective trainers will be hired. These trainers will train both our personnel (to be recruited as future animal trainers and show personnel) and the purchased animals. The estimated training would be 18-26 months ( source: The Great Circus Parade ). During this training period small performances would be given in response to special requests or occasions such as festivals or fairs with hired people such as band, clowns, acrobats…etc. by using the circus train.

 F ) COST ESTIMATES
 

Cost related to human factors can be analysed under three main headings which are:

1. Recruitment Cost: These costs will be incurred before the actual employment of the personnel and include advertisement costs, transfers paid for high skilled employees, job interview costs including demo shows

2. Monthly Salaries: The salaries will be determined according to the importance of the jobs and skills and experience of the employee in the related field and also this cost includes insurance costs.

3. Training Costs: The required training for the personnel should be provided by outside trainers in the initialization phase. In the second phase of the implementation of the project, our trained personnel will train our animals and novices so we will expect the decrease in training cost in the future.

The mentioned costs will differ according to the department and position of the employee. The estimated costs per employee are summarized in Table I for initialization phase and TABLE II for future.

 
 

PERSONNEL	Number	Recruitment Cost/man	Monthly Salaries	Training Cost	TOTAL COST/month
Administrative	10	$2000	$700	-----------	$700
Technical	7	$200	$300	$100	$400
Show	25	$300	$200	$300	$500
Overhead	7	$100	$250	$50	$300
Training	5	$8000	$1200	------------	$1200

TABLE I : Human resources cost estimates in the initialization phase

$ 69,000 Recruitment Cost

$ 30,400 Monthly Personnel Expenses

TOTAL EXPECTED COSTS FOR 2 YEARS: 1^st Year ----- $434,400

2^nd Year ----- $364,800

TOTAL ----- $799,200

 
 

PERSONNEL	Number	Recruitment Cost / man	Mothly salary/ man	TOTAL COST/month
Administrative	14	$2000	$700	$700
Technical	9	$200	$300	$300
Show	35	$6000	$800	$800
Overhead	8	$100	$250	$250

TABLE II: Human Resources cost estimates after initialization phase

$240,600 Recruitment Costs

$72,850 Monthly Personnel Expenses

TOTAL PERSONNEL:

Adm. 24

Tech. 16

Show 60

Overh. 13

EXPECTED PERSONNEL COST: 3^rd Year ------ $1,258,800

4^th - µ Year -- $1,018,200