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I am currently in school (college) and my class is HR management. Our group was given a scenerio and I was hoping we could get some advice on what to do.... We (our group) is merging two depts. Purchasing and Shipping & Recieving. Our goal is to eliminate 20% of the 105 emplyoees, 75% caucasion male, 11 disabled, 9 over the age of 40, 8 single female. We have 2 directors, 2 managers and 5 supervisors. we can do anything we want to get this task done. I know we have to consider EEOC, ADA and besides we have to add an IT dept. with 10 people. Any suggestions on where to start with this project? I know this is real vague but any suggestions would be helpful, do we start with Management, can we retrain for the IT dept?

ANSWER:

The group would definitely have to consider EEOC and ADA legislation. You may also want to consider the following as you work through this process:

• Conduct Job Evaluations to identify if positions are fully loaded, additional skills sets that employees may have etc.

• Conduct an Employee Feedback Survey - gather employees thoughts/suggestions on the re structuring and also gather important information around skill sets actually required for each position

• Consider standardizing processes, which should help highlight areas of waste

• Involve stakeholders in initial focus groups - union officials if unionized etc.

• Provide Career Transition Services/Job Search Assistance to reduce the stress for the employees that will be losing their jobs
  

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