We're restructuring ... it'll result in new jobs and the loss of old ones. Can our staff grow enough to perform well in the new jobs?

Improving organisational performance through restructuring generally increases the complexity of employees’ jobs. Success in the new posts will depend on greater ability to learn new skills and manage considerable increases in personal responsibility. Enhanced "people" skills – eg customer service skills – will become very important.

Employers engaged in restructuring or downsizing usually need to identify which staff are potentially capable of developing to meet the challenges of the new roles – and which are not. As the new jobs often require very different skills sets from the current posts, it can be extremely difficult to reach these redeployment decisions….. and even more of a problem to defend them to the unsuccessful applicants.

Depending on your requirements, Careers Partnership (UK) offers a range of services to help you manage the "people" aspects of restructuring or  downsizing. These include:-

• analysing the skills sets required in the new jobs.
• providing detailed, impartial psychometric-based reports to assess each employee applicant’s ability to succeed in specific posts within your changed organisation
  
  (The objective nature of these assessments and the amount of solid research evidence which supports them minimises the scope for conflict between employer and staff. Psychometric assessment is also the most accurate, efficient method of analysing key performance factors such as intelligence and the ability to think creatively)
  
  
• designing training plans to maximise your employees’ contribution in their new jobs
• providing career management and / or outplacement support for employees unable to grow with the new organisation
  
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