Tag - Constructive Dismissal and Redundancy

Letting staff go, for whatever reason, is not an easy process. Go to the articles here to learn how to carry out constructive dismissals and redundancy. Initially, it is advisable to look at your organisational chart. This will ensure that you have a clear picture of who to let go. Don’t fall into the trap of hiring a staff member to prop up another. Following this, work out how many staff your manager’s can manage. Do you have too many layers of management? And then, PLAN, your redundancies and dismissals. The article “How to Do Redundancy Planning” will walk you through the questions to ask yourself. Also, how to work out who goes and who stays. A constructive dismissal and redundancy plan will ensure that you end up with the right people.

Redundancy Planning

Reducing the staff head count in a business is never a pleasant task - on either side of the desk. However, it is often a fact of life in business.  Down-sizing Staff is a very emotionally charged activity and requires a good understanding of the relevant legislation so that you do not...

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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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How to do Redundancy Planning

Reducing the staff head count in a business is never a pleasant task - on either side of the desk.  However, it is often a fact of life in business.  This article distills out some of the business wisdom on Redundancy Planning.  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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