Tag - Human Resources Structure

Your human resources and organisation structures are the essentials that make your business work. Firstly, take a critical look at your organisation chart. If you are starting out, spend time to do this. If you have been in business a while, revisit your structure and highlight areas that can be improved. Next, plan for change. Many people find change and uncertainty difficult to deal with. Learn how to reduce that uncertainty. There are many areas to consider here, go through the articles listed in “How to do Change Management for Profit”. Finally, work through areas such as 80/20 staffing; Peter Principle; Parkinson’s Law. Taking the time to work on your human resources structure will payoff with higher Profits and a business ready to scale.

Secrets to Streamlining Organisation Charts

In an organisation of any size that has been around for a while, your management organisation chart will most likely have a bad case of bloat.  This 12Faces Menu article looks at how you can trim your management tree down to its former trim glory. Yellow Belt

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Human Resources Tip Bits

Human Resources is one of the essentials that make your business work.  Without people, it is most unlikely that your business will scale to any size.  This is a collection of pearls of wisdom, about employing and getting the most from people, distilled from many sources.  Yellow belt

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How to do Change Management for Profit

Most people don't like change!  As a business owner/manager, you probably have a much higher tolerance for the uncertainty of change than other staff.  On the other hand, you can't change much just by yourself.  And changes you do implement have a disconcerting tendency to revert back to the old method as...

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Peter Principle: Promotion to Incompetency

Laurence J Peters in his book “The Peter Principle” (Peters & Hull, 1969) argues that people are likely to be promoted until they reach a point where they are unacceptably incompetent.  At this point, they are unlikely to be promoted any further (at least in a well ordered organisation) because...

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What Parkinson’s Law Tells Us about Wasted Work

Northcote Parkinson, writing in 1955, semi humorously proposed his ‘law’ that “Work expands to fill the time available for its completion”. This is very true.  Staff will often take as much time as is available to them to work on a project even though that might mean unnecessary embellishments. Even good staff...

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