Managing Change - Get it Right
Managing change in organisations is a challenging, process
driven exercise, unless you have been courageous enough as an
organisation, to be enlightened and multi-inclusive in decision
making.
In any event, getting the process right is a vital component.
The credibility of the change managers will be scrutinised
closely enough on the issue itself, with all processes in place.
If process is at fault too, then things can get very messy
indeed.
Legalities
Legalities of how you are dealing with people issues must be
resolved first with a clear understanding of HR technicalities,
which requires the right level of expertise. Within this are
elements of fairness, consistency and honesty. Although subsets
of the well-researched HR framework, they save a lot of time,
energy and emotion if considered in advance and protocols
carefully positioned.
Timescales
Appropriate timescales in changing people issues will need to be
carefully dealt with as part of the HR overview, but it can be
easy to slip. A good way to work is using a simple project
management process for the whole event, working for as far back
as week