Redundancy, restructuring, downsizing. There are few, if any, other management books on this important topic, and yet the pace of redundancies has only accelerated in recent years. Coupled with this, many companies that implement redundancies as a cost-cutting exercise often fail to achieve their goal. Whilst viewed as an uncomfortable topic by many, guidance on how to implement a redundancy programme that is fair, proportionate and ultimately leads to improved organisational performance, has never been more needed. This book fills this important gap. It takes the reader through a redundancy implementation strategy – Re-Focus, Re-Organise and Re-Build – that incorporates the key aspects of planning and analysis, fairness and justice, and prepares management for redundancy implementation through training. What will your communications include? What will be your strategy for implementation? What training does your management need? Various helpful template examples are included for employee consultation, communication and training. The book will be invaluable for business managers, HR professionals, employee representatives and HR students.
This case study discusses the development of a strategic redundancy implementation model over a 5-year longitudinal study within a private sector, automation engineering organization. Action research was used to drive continuous improvement through four iterations of developing a strategic redundancy implementation model. Each model was designed in accordance with the action research cycle of first identifying the problem, followed by understanding the theories and concepts that underpin the problem, succeeded by the collection of data through multiple methods as part of a qualitative study. Through this process, knowledge construction was created through critical reflection and learning undertaken by the action researcher. This case study will address the practical challenges and opportunities associated with conducting action research within an organizational setting. How and when researchers should consider using action research as a research methodology is discussed, aligned to a real-life scenario where dynamic change was essential for organizational survival. The key elements of action research, including the role of the researcher, key skills required, and the theoretical underpinning of action research are discussed.
Public management scholars have long sought to understand design principles that can promote the adaptability and resilience of complex organizational systems operating in uncertain and turbulent environments. Perhaps nowhere is this need more acute than in developing systems for responding to complex disasters. One concept that has received significant attention in discussion of resilient systems design is the notion of redundancy; however, existing literatures offer contradictory theories as to whether redundant designs enhance or undermine system resilience. Using case study data from three large-scale wildfire events, this article extends the theoretical discussion of redundancy by developing a typology of redundancy strategies and investigating their application and associated consequences in incident response. Our findings reveal four principal ways redundancy can be integrated into system design: backup, cross-functionality, duplication and cross-checking. Further, each redundancy type is associated with its own capabilities for enhancing system resilience as well as its own set of risk factors that, if left unmanaged, could undermine system functioning. Findings demonstrate how understanding both the potential value and risk portfolio associated with each type of redundancy clarifies the management challenge for responders when employing these strategies.
Thoroughly explains Redundancy ...and has all the insights, experiences and instructions needed for successful Redundancy. - Your Step-by-Step Guide to Redundancy. Best Practices for implementations and check-ups. - Free Updates and downloads of all forms and documents included. Key Book Benefits: Delivers authoritative, field-tested best practices for Redundancy. Covers the full lifecycle, from planning, design, and deployment. Includes access to download of complete set of documents as discussed in the book, and more. The instantly downloadable documents can be used straight away. Comes with job aids, utilities, and full downloads of all documents. Drive Better Productivity and Increase Success with this book Starting Now. Discover Real-World Best Practices-Without Paying Expensive Consultants You're investing in Redundancy for one reason: to drive major performance improvements across your entire organization. Redundancy Best Practices will help you do just that. Drawing on their experience with dozens of deployments, The Art of Service offers expert guidance on every aspect of Redundancy deployment, with results-focused best practices for every area of the organization touched by Redundancy, including sales, marketing, customer service, finance, legal, and IT. This is information you'd otherwise have to pay a consultant top dollars to get...information you won't find in any other book! The Art of Service walks you through developing a comprehensive and effective implementation strategy, followed by tactics and specifics to overcome every challenge you face, including internal politics. Through this book and its companion Web site, The Art of Service provides presentations, questionnaires, step-by-step guides, and extensive resources-all part of the Content on Demand system that gives your organization maximum results from Redundancy. - Achieve higher end-customer satisfaction and dramatic productivity gains - Overcome "people, product, and process" pitfalls that can limit the value of your Redundancy - Learn which procedures, processes and documentation are right for your implementation - This book's varied set of start-to-finish roadmap documents for success can be used by companies of all sizes in all industries for executives, team leaders, implementation team members, developers, and users throughout the business. From Overwhelmed to Empowered - Changing the way you find Answers - This book includes access to The Art of Service's on-demand digital library to Search, Download, Learn and use direct applicable documents for technology and business professionals, eliminating spending money and time on self-development. Every day, many large enterprises run hundreds of projects using The Art of Service Documentation. For these companies, The Art of Service is ideal for their custom project development, quality assurance, IT Service Management implementation, virtual training, or documentation. The Art of Service Content-on-Demand is unique. With The Art of Service, users get the documents and the knowledge they need and IT managers get complete visibility and management control over project deployments. Get Your Access Today.
Who needs to know about Data redundancy ? Who will be responsible for deciding whether Data redundancy goes ahead or not after the initial investigations? What potential environmental factors impact the Data redundancy effort? Will Data redundancy deliverables need to be tested and, if so, by whom? How are the Data redundancy's objectives aligned to the organization's overall business strategy? Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a challenge or meet an objective is the most valuable role... In EVERY group, company, organization and department. Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented by humans, AI, or a combination of the two, it needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?' This Self-Assessment empowers people to do just that - whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make Data redundancy investments work better. This Data redundancy All-Inclusive Self-Assessment enables You to be that person. All the tools you need to an in-depth Data redundancy Self-Assessment. Featuring 701 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Data redundancy improvements can be made. In using the questions you will be better able to: - diagnose Data redundancy projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices - implement evidence-based best practice strategies aligned with overall goals - integrate recent advances in Data redundancy and process design strategies into practice according to best practice guidelines Using a Self-Assessment tool known as the Data redundancy Scorecard, you will develop a clear picture of which Data redundancy areas need attention. Your purchase includes access details to the Data redundancy self-assessment dashboard download which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows your organization exactly what to do next. Your exclusive instant access details can be found in your book.
Foreword by Dave Ulrich It becomes necessary to look at redundancy management from a long term perspective where it may be considered as part of organizational renewal which is not only aimed at cutting cost (also read as reduced manpower) but a process in which employees of the organization are made active partner in identifying areas of redundancy and inefficiency, where trust and communication is not broken in the entire process and even if some roles/jobs have to be abolished the employees who were in those roles to be treated with dignity. As a consequence, workforce of tomorrow has to understand that they need to be high on 'employability quotient' where they may learn to manage their career in terms of learning new competencies as they grow in life and career. The book aims to understand redundancy through the eyes of labour laws including interpretation of statutes by Supreme Court, redeployment that may lead to talent from getting lost, VRS and role of HR in designing and implementing VRS & judicial perspective of Courts in interpreting VRS and its implementation, part played by HR in handling redundant positions/jobs and HR and its role in understanding and catering to needs of both survivors and victims of redundancy drive and managing employee exit.
What are the success criteria that will indicate that redundancy objectives have been met and the benefits delivered? Have all basic functions of redundancy been defined? What threat is redundancy addressing? Are improvement team members fully trained on redundancy? Have you identified your redundancy key performance indicators? Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a challenge or meet an objective is the most valuable role... In EVERY group, company, organization and department. Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented by humans, AI, or a combination of the two, it needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?' This Self-Assessment empowers people to do just that - whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make redundancy investments work better. This redundancy All-Inclusive Self-Assessment enables You to be that person. All the tools you need to an in-depth redundancy Self-Assessment. Featuring 700 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which redundancy improvements can be made. In using the questions you will be better able to: - diagnose redundancy projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices - implement evidence-based best practice strategies aligned with overall goals - integrate recent advances in redundancy and process design strategies into practice according to best practice guidelines Using a Self-Assessment tool known as the redundancy Scorecard, you will develop a clear picture of which redundancy areas need attention. Your purchase includes access details to the redundancy self-assessment dashboard download which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows your organization exactly what to do next. Your exclusive instant access details can be found in your book.
Evaluating the role of logistics and supply chain management skills or applications is necessary for the success of any organization or business. As market competition becomes more aggressive, it is crucial to evaluate ways in which a business can maintain a strategic edge over competitors. The Handbook of Research on Information Management for Effective Logistics and Supply Chains highlights strategies, tools, and skills necessary for supply management within organizations and companies. Featuring best practices and empirical research within the field, this handbook is a critical reference source for scholars, practitioners, researchers, information systems and telecommunication specialists, and managers.
"An independent consultant, Hubbard (business administration, Oxford U.) explains why half of all attempts to acquire a business, or merge two businesses, fail. Then she explores the psychology involved, describes a process for acquiring, and presents five case studies in which the names and other details of both the companies and people have been changed. The section on psychology particularly discusses the reaction of employees whose means of livelihood have just been bought and sold."--Book News, Inc.
