Getting Past Back-of-the-Napkin Organization Design
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Wednesday, January 28, 2009
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10:45 AM
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11:45 AM
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Stacey Huberman, Senior consultant, Organization Design & Effectiveness, BMO Financial Group
Philip Hunter, Manager, Human Resource Services, PricewaterhouseCoopers
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DESCRIPTION:
Many companies have great products and services, accompanied by creative, visionary strategies and a skilled, dedicated workforce determined to bring them to the marketplace. So why is it that so many companies are also characterized by high turnover, communication breakdown, unclear roles and low productivity?
What’s the root cause? Poor leadership? Bad hiring? “Personality conflicts”?
This session begins by establishing basic principles essential for conceptualizing, assessing and re-designing organizations. It also shares some metrics that confirm the importance of organization design and explains why problems arise when organizations are poorly structured.
Using current job ads from the Toronto Star and Globe & Mail, this presentation will engage you in recognizing specific, clearly differentiated levels of work implied in jobs, irrespective of titling or compensation. You will become much more articulate about the work you need done in your organization and the unique value roles at all different levels within the organization can provide.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
- Understand why organization design is so important in business today
- Acquire basic organization design knowledge to become a better HR practitioner and differentiate between well- and poorly-designed organizations
- Analyze current job ads using generic work descriptors to assess the complexity of work required
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Stacey Huberman is a senior organization design consultant at BMO Financial Group. She works with bank executives in designing and implementing organization structures, work processes, and management practices to help them achieve their business strategy and employee satisfaction. Her strong project and change management skills are complimented by her team building and negotiation abilities. As a member of the corporate HR group, she also works to enable effective governance by establishing and maintaining the bank’s organization design framework.
As a manager for the Saratoga Team at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, Philip helps clients develop superior business and HR strategies through workforce measurement and benchmarking solutions.
Prior to joining PricewaterhouseCoopers, Philip consulted at senior management levels in the financial services, pharmaceutical and manufacturing industries on a wide range of organization design and talent management issues in Canada and the U.S.
Philip holds a Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from the University of North Texas.
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