Organisation Change: Staffing, Transitional Tasks And Business Change

During organisation change, the change period is one of the most important concerns. This is when the project has come to a close and it’s time to transition things back into the hands of the run business staff. Most of the time, these transitions are not managed well.

The main cause of this problem is that management doesn't realize that they're responsible for these transitions. In some cases, there's this expectation from internal management, that the external staffers should be the one to handle everything regarding the change project. This is not only unrealistic but it's a wrong expectation to adopt.

External staffers cannot make the resources materialize on cue. They are only for the short term and they don't have that big of a voice in the company. They lack the political pull to accomplish the transitional tasks for organisation change. Internal management has to take responsibility for doing these things. They need to pin down the people who need to learn the new procedures, processes, or programs and getting them where they need to be to actually learn it.

There's this idea that the transition is a part of the organisation change project, thus the expectation. There's some truth behind this. Transition is a change, yes, but transition is not a component of the project. External staffers are hired to work for the organisation change project, and when the goals are complete, the project is over. External staffing does not have the authority to make internal staffing do what they need to do, only internal management can accomplish that feat.

For more information, please see our website: Organisation Change