American county rock singer Sheryl Crow once sang “I think a change will do you good.”
For many companies change can come from entering new markets, to allow for rebranding or to keep up with the latest technologies.
But, often, change is an unfortunate by-product of external, unforeseen circumstances resulting in mergers, acquisitions and downsizing in order to survive.
The change process and/or having to make redundancies must be successfully managed. However, the reality is that only 10% of organisations actually give the human resource issues top priority during the change process.
The following advice will make the transition period and change management smoother: (more…)