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Redesign Your HR Structure

Create a fit-for-purpose HR structure.

  • There is no one-size-fits-all HR structure, as no two HR functions are the same – they have different strategic objectives, clients, employee value propositions, etc.
  • Designing an HR structure is complicated and often doesn’t produce the desired results.
  • A poorly structured HR function impacts the larger organization, as it can result in bottlenecks and delays in meeting client needs or misalignment between priority HR capabilities and HR resource allocation.

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Critical Insight

  • There is no one-size-fits-all structure. Invest time in identifying how the HR function enables your unique organizational strategy.
  • Optimize HR to ensure resources are allocated where they will have the biggest impact and create no conflict between subfunctions.
  • Prepare for iteration. Designing an HR function is an iterative process that requires re-evaluating previous design decisions to ensure they are still appropriate.

Impact and Result

  • Design a fit-for-purpose HR structure rather than replicating or copying another.
  • Design for the future, aligning HR structure and HR functional capabilities with organizational and line of business strategic objectives.

Redesign Your HR Structure Research & Tools

1. Align HR structure with strategy

Review the current state and desired outcomes, create design principles, and identify HR functional capabilities.

Redesign Your HR Structure Storyboard
Redesign Your HR Structure Executive Briefing
HR Structure Workbook
HR Metrics Library
HR Functional Capability Framework
Case Studies: Redesign Your HR Structure

2. Define delivery characteristics

Determine each capability’s priority, centralization level, co/outsourcing, and delivery mode.

3. Create the new HR structure

Create capacity work units as well as their accountabilities and responsibilities to finalize the new HR structure.

HR Structure Presentation Template
HR Structure Catalog

About McLean & Company

McLean & Company is an HR research and advisory firm providing practical solutions to human resources challenges via executable research, tools, diagnostics, and advisory services that have a clear and measurable impact on your business.

What Is a Blueprint?

A blueprint is designed to be a roadmap, containing a methodology and the tools and templates you need to solve your HR problems.

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Get the help you need in this 3-phase advisory process. You'll receive 5 touchpoints with our researchers, all included in your membership.

Guided Implementation 1: Align HR structure with strategy
  • Call 1: Discuss stakeholder consultation plan and required information/analysis.
  • Call 2: Review design principles and chosen HR functional capabilities.

Guided Implementation 2: Define delivery characteristics
  • Call 1: Review selected delivery characteristics and discuss structural implications.

Guided Implementation 3: Create the new HR structure
  • Call 1: Review work units and discuss other options or changes.
  • Call 2: Identify possible efficiencies in final structure and discuss next steps.

Contributors

  • Ronald Capelle, President, Organization Design Consultant, Capelle Associates Inc.
  • Anton Fishman, Managing Director, Fishman & Partners Ltd.
  • Cathy Lyttle, SVP, Chief Human Resource Officer, Worthington Industries
  • Jim Rankin, Organization Change Management Consultant, Jim Rankin & Associates Inc.
  • Paul Sparrow, Emeritus Professor of International HRM at Lancaster University Management School
  • Naomi Stanford, Organizational Design Consultant
  • Dr. David Weiss, Author, Strategist, Consultant, Educator, President and CEO of Weiss International Ltd.
  • Stuart Wigham, Content Manager and Consultant, On The Mark
  • Jan De Visch, Owner, Managing Director, Connect & Transform

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