Soc Org Moving Forward4
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Moving Your Organization Forward
Staffing for Organizational ChangeBob LewisAPT, Inc
Presented to LWHRA on June 9, 2009
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The trouble with turmoil
• Staffing during disruptive change is not like staffing during other situations
• High stress• Fast turnaround• Significant uncertainty • High visibility• Legal exposure• Eroding morale• Turnover of key talent
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The risks…
• Short-term actions that create long-term pain
• Perception among employees that changes made rapidly are unfair or arbitrary
• De-motivation and burnout• Uncertainty & survivor effects
• Employment litigation
• What is the biggest risk?
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The biggest risk
• The vast majority of firms that downsize…• Fail to cut costs• Fail to increase profits• Are financially outperformed by
companies that don’t downsize• Have a lower stock price
• …two years after the downsizing
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Difficulties managing change
• Inadequate plans• Poorly planned staff cuts
• Majority of firms hire displaced employees (full-time or contractor) at higher wages
• Little attention to survivor effects• Stress, increased workload, higher
tendency to turn once economy turns positive
• Managers and HR—survivor and victim effects
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If things were logical…
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Your challenges
• What is disrupting your organization?• What staffing implications did/are you
facing?
• What response/action did you take?
• What remains to be done?
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Our opportunity
• Explore how to use elements of the change model to best support where you are in the change process
• Discuss how different organizational changes require different approaches
• Moving forward—how to get the organization focused on the future
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Drivers of disruptive change
• Business drivers with implications for people• Strategy driven
• M&A• Efficiency driven
• Restructuring• Cost driven
• RIFs
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Mergers & acquisitions
• Key question:• How can we quickly align the workforce
with the strategic forces driving the merger/acquisition?
• Key challenges:• Driving cultural integration/alignment
while staying focused on productivity • Keeping morale high while eliminating
redundancies• Assessing people when they’re not
known
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And more…
People Impact• Uncertainty
regarding the new organization and team members
• Job (in)security• Refining roles given
M&A goals• Competing cultures
Pitch to Executives• Get talent working
together; form a new and better culture
• Align people with the new strategy/goals; sharpen focus
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The M&A “100 day plan”
PriorCompany
Status
Define/revalidate roles values, standards
Merge or reaffirm culture(s)
Create and align(or reaffirm) people strategies
MergedCompany
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Restructuring
• Key question:• How can we get the restructured
organization up and running?• Key challenges:
• Ensuring new roles/responsibilities are clear• Effectively filling new, expanded roles• Getting people acquainted with new
managers• Getting the organization focused on its
“100 day plan”
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People Impact• RIFs may
accompany new organization or divisions
• Conducting hiring and RIFs simultaneously
• Uncertainty of the future
Pitch to Executives• Align people with
the new strategy/goals; sharpen focus
• Shore up measurement of talent to ensure payoffs of restructuring
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The restructuring “100 day plan”• Provide Context
• Performance guidance• Organizational performance
• Focus on training• Organizations that train post-
restructuring increase productivity; those that don’t decrease it
• Space to share lessons learned
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RIFs
• Key question:• How can we ensure business continuity?
• Key challenges:• Loss of key capabilities and project
continuity• Ensuring there are staffing contingency
plans• Re-engaging the workforce
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People Impact• Sudden change
with little time to react
• Survivor and victim syndromes
• Burnout and disengagement
Pitch to Executives• Most downsizings
are unprofitable; need to act
• Keep the focus on the work; decrease uncertainty in the workforce
• Assist those whose workload has increased
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The RIF “100 day plan”
• Communicate!• Project continuity discussions• Value of survivors
• Roll out job specifications • Recognize new scope for changed jobs• Validate continuity for unchanged jobs
• Interventions to address sense of control, survivor/victim syndromes
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The State of Business