Redesign Your HR Structure
Create a fit-for-purpose HR structure.
Onsite Workshop
Adapting another HR structure over developing a tailored structure:
- Creates reactive and misaligned HR functions.
- Contributes to confusion, delays, and wasted effort.
- Increases overhead expenses when the structure is too broad or complex.
A well-designed HR structure:
- Defines HR roles and accountabilities, decreasing duplication of effort and confusion.
- Increases overall HR effectiveness and improves delivery of services.
- Allows HR to focus on value-added work that pushes organizational performance.
Module 1: Align HR Structure With Strategy
The Purpose
- Review the current state and desired outcomes.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Design principles
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| 1.1 | Review organizational and talent strategies and identify implications for HR structure. |
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| 1.2 | Review organizational structure and identify implications for HR structure. |
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| 1.3 | Review current HR structure pain points and identify implications for new structure. |
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| 1.4 | Create design principles. |
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Module 2: Define Delivery Characteristics
The Purpose
- Classify HR functional capabilities according to their priority level.
- Decide whether each capability will be mostly centralized or decentralized.
- Outline client-facing capabilities and their mode of delivery (i.e. face-to-face vs. technology-enabled).
Key Benefits Achieved
- Client-facing and virtual capabilities
| Activities: | Outputs: | |
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| 2.1 | Identify and define HR functional capabilities. |
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| 2.2 | Determine importance and effectiveness of capabilities. |
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| 2.3 | Identify delivery characteristics for capabilities. |
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Module 3: Create the New HR Structure
The Purpose
- Categorize work units for each capability.
- Assign accountabilities and create mandates for each work unit.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Work unit accountabilities
- Work unit mandates
| Activities: | Outputs: | |
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| 3.1 | Categorize capabilities into work units. |
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| 3.2 | Identify which work units will be accountable and responsible for each HR activity. |
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| 3.3 | Create mandates for each work unit. |
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Module 4: Define Roles and Finalize Work Units
The Purpose
- Identify roles within each work unit.
- Confirm the new HR structure’s alignment with the design principles.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Roles for each work unit
- HR structure
| Activities: | Outputs: | |
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| 4.1 | Define roles for each work unit. |
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| 4.2 | Finalize the new HR structure. |
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| 4.3 | Ensure the new HR structure aligns with the design principles. |
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