HR Digest

MARCH 23, 2023

You want to inform the employee that they are being laid off due to reasons such as company restructuring or budget cuts. This could include severance packages, job search assistance, or career counseling services. Layoff due to restructuring. The tone of the layoff letter should be respectful and professional.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 19, 2017

At some point in your career journey, have you started to focus more on status as a leader than the job at hand? Signs of a Lemming Leader: Use of jargon: Do you use the terms restructuring, high reliability, six sigma, just culture, strategic sourcing, population health, or employee engagement in your organization?

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In the CEO Afterlife

DECEMBER 7, 2014

The strategy I’ve grown to love and count on over a 45-year career is do less, better. A long time ago, this ethic saved a near-bankrupt company that I had a part in restructuring. According to Bob Olodort, the product designer of the recently launched Ditto notification wearable device, Samsung is snagged in the complexity web.

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 5, 2022

As layoffs hit tech, professional recruiters are forced to rethink their careers. Recruiting: A Bellwether Career? Companies are now restructuring with measures such as layoffs and hiring freezes as they enter the last phase of the boom-bust cycle. Layoffs that began in tech are now spilling to retail and beyond.

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Coaching Tip

APRIL 23, 2014

Clearly, regulatory restructuring on a global scale is underway. As a result, executives are being tasked to optimize their enterprise''s organizational structures, to enhance product and service delivery models, and to blaze new paths to unmatched market reach. We have entered a new commercial age. Source: James M. kerr john g.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

What’s more, research from the University of Iowa found that when employees have a strong cultural fit not only with their new employer, but also with their boss and new colleagues, they are both happier and more productive than their peers who suffer a cultural disconnect. The study investigated workplaces in both the UK and the U.S.

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HR Digest

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

If your initial reaction is to feel overwhelmed by these updates, then consider the role of an average employee who is more likely to be replaced more permanently through job cuts and organizational restructuring efforts. You might be able to help both the employees and yourself find some balance by fully understanding the role of HR.

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leaderCommunicator

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

I got a taste of that skepticism many years ago when I began my professional career as a high school English teacher. Many businesses are undergoing enormous transformations, restructuring their business models and reorganizing their employees. And what is the pay-off for a business leader to be perceived as trustworthy?

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QAspire

JANUARY 20, 2011

Companies are working ways out to deliver more value, people in organizations are evaluated based on value they create and clients seek “value-adds” in products and services they purchase. Eliminating Waste” is the key to a lean and productive organization.

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Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Leaders are debating the changing nature of work and the perceived decline in job security (the lifelong career at a benevolent company is a fading memory) and the erosion of corporate loyalty. Restructuring has led to fewer layers of management, also to fewer opportunities for promotion. The decline in opportunities for promotion. .

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2013

After years of hearing that it was impossible to restructure jobs to make them more doable, guess what? According to The Wall Street Journal , when Goldman Sachs discovered it couldn’t attract and retain the most promising recruits with pay and perks alone, it woke up to the idea that you can actually restructure the way work is done.

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QAspire

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer The Quest of Better Outcomes: Hierarchy And Process In quest of better outcomes (efficiency, results, productivity, improvements etc.), a lot of companies focus on restructuring their organization structure (hierarchy).

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Experience to Lead

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Whether it’s your social life, family or career, one thing you can count on is the consistency of change. Whether it be a global pandemic, a company restructuring or a merger, a leadership strategy is crucial if you want to manage shifts and times of uncertainty. After all, high employee engagement is a sign of an effective leader.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 10, 2018

Unfortunately, the uncertainty of frequent restructuring actually makes problems worse. Low productivity. Sometimes people in leadership think that constant tinkering with an organization’s structure is the way to fix any issues. High turnover. If people are departing in droves, you’ve got a problem.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 16, 2013

Our productivity grew each year and our facility bids were winning over 70% of the time. We spent half a million dollars to train our people and restructure our reward systems over 10 years. Soon after the program was implemented, our internal customers started to notice. They spent five times that on one lost lawsuit in one year.

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LDRLB

APRIL 21, 2014

First, how to do retainment, how to do recruitment in ways that are much more productive, and also to understand that sometimes losses actually come with a lot of benefits. They don’t feel that it’s part of what they’re proud of and what they are building in their professional career, what they want to do.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Here's an example*: Peter was the divisional CFO for the consumer unit of a global products company. Peter's appointment as president triggered two common challenges with peer promotions: rapid re-contracting followed by rapid restructuring. Peers can joke around, gossip, gripe, and poke fun at each other. Names have been changed.

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 25, 2019

Countries around the world are faced with considerable skills, productivity and social inclusion challenges that require novel and innovative approaches to skills development. Restructuring. “Skills improvements complement other key building blocks of an innovative and inclusive economy,” the authors explain.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

For example, if you are suggesting cost reduction and balance sheet restructuring to GE, where activist investor Nelson Peltz, one of the founders of hedge fund Trian Fund Management, has a major stake, your pitch has a very different meaning than it would at News Corporation, where Rupert Murdoch still has effective control of the company.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

The onslaught of mounting stressors include global challenges, such as climate change, terrorism, and political turmoil – as well as personal and professional challenges, such as illnesses, job changes, and organizational restructuring. For many of us, the initial response to stress is to look for external fixes.

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Ron Edmondson

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Although my tenure is much shorter than I had anticipated when I arrived almost 18 months ago, I feel it has been a productive time for me and the organization. I spent my time restructuring the organization and the team; hopefully positioning it for the future. At times it felt as though I was back in church revitalization.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2018

Job personalization is best applied when there are clear inflection points: when career trajectories are stalled, during corporate restructuring, or in recruiting for open positions. Ask the person to describe themselves and their career, and listen closely. What gets them excited about their career successes?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Four strategies to confront your fears productively.

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

In addition, because of the successive generations entering the workforce, rising education levels, globalization, the flattening of organizations, and an increased willingness to change careers and companies, employees have come to understand they can add more value doing meaningful work.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2011

But it's important to know the difference between a one-time error in judgment and a decision to pursue a critically flawed strategy — in fact, your future career may depend on knowing the difference. The solution is to show some humility and to consider restructuring things so that your actions have some checks and balances.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2015

Teach employees to own their career development. The development and growth of your talent is vital to your ongoing success, ability to innovate, and overall productivity. Highly-structured, one-size-fits-all learning programs don’t work anymore. Individuals must own, self-direct, and control their learning futures.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

At the same time, employees are just as stressed about the growing skills gap, Accenture research shows, and most of them are unclear about which skills they need to advance their careers. Designing more flexible career paths allows companies to easily deploy people to different roles where their skills are in demand.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2016

Career Transitions. Leaving a Stable Job to Create Your Dream Career. Here’s how he labels himself: “Start-Up Builder * Brand Strategist * Marketing Head” And below is how he summarizes his career accomplishments, clearly communicating what he’d bring to a new position. You and Your Team Series.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

The Labor Market Maker would be responsible for identifying the skills employers need — now and in the future — and signaling that information to individuals, so they can plan their careers, and schools, so they can plan their curricula.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Scibelli restructured the HR department by hiring a director of organizational development from the outside (since they didn't have this function) to help people adapt to process changes. Coco joined Lowe's HR function after a career that included process improvement and " Black Belt " experience at GE. Luke's Healthcare and Lowe's.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2014

Dave didn’t advocate any particular design model, just one the leader knows how to employ and one flexible enough to be applied to the range of organizational situations a leader faces in the course of a career. Are you competing on the basis of on-going product or technological innovation?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2015

Except when it’s harmful to your career. ” Putting aside a worst-case scenario, being seen as just your boss’s right-hand man can also be “detrimental to your career in the long run because nobody but your boss appreciates what you can do,” says Karen Dillon, coauthor of How Will You Measure Your Life?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

We thought that creative, capability-rich companies would have paid a lot of attention to the way they organized and the value that restructuring gave them. The IKEA product design process involves design, sourcing, shipping, manufacturing, and customer insight.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

The ability to get new initiatives off the ground is also critical to your career. During one of the sessions, they read a case study about a hotel chain that trimmed labor and production costs by ceasing to launder guest sheets every day. “You want to stand out, be visible, and get noticed as a leader,” she says.

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Project Restructuring Hotels Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2018

Teachers perceive themselves and their students as being treated as fungible costs of production, cogs in a bureaucratic machine. ” Education, then, is not usually an incremental step to a better way to make a living life or a waystation to another career. To them, nothing less than the education profession is at risk.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

They struggle to see how their labor contributes directly to the performance of the corporation, or how it helps the progress of their career. While there’s often increased pressure to be more productive in the office, it’s sometimes hard not to wonder, “What’s the point?”

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

And that means educators worldwide must revisit how they want to make their most important product — their students — more valuable. Business education Career planning Education' That means people need to become non-traditionally smarter at things machines are not quite yet ready to think about or do.

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