ORGANISATIONAL ARCHITECTURE DEFINITION

Good organisational architecture provides access to the skills and knowledge needed to implement organisational strategy. Great architecture goes further; it empowers managers and employees, giving them the autonomy, resources and organisational support they need to work effectively.

Typical Client Challenges:

• Poor organisational architecture leading to poor process control, power conflicts and confusion.
• Employees lack clarity on job description, grades/levels and career path within the company
• Bottlenecks in decision making and difficulties in coordination.

Ashford & McGuire’s ValuePlus solutions:

• Review and re-design organization architecture to facilitate efficient use of resources
• Define and clarify grades/levels and career paths

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Job descriptions are used for different purposes by the employee and the human resources department – definition of function and responsibilities, recruitment, training and development (establishing and updating performance goals/standards), succession planning, assigning jobs, determining compensation and benchmarking.

Typical Client Challenges:

• No proper job analysis
• No clear outline of role function and responsibilities.
• Outdated job descriptions

Ashford & McGuire’s ValuePlus solutions:

• Conduct job analysis to determine tasks necessary for performing the job.
• Assist in reviewing and updating job descriptions.
• Designing job descriptions (for new and current roles)

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MANPOWER PLANNING

Manpower planning determines the number of people required and available to operate, maintain and support ‘a system’.

Typical Client Challenges:

• Poor information gathering making manpower planning difficult or impossible.
• Staff shortage or over-staffing.
• Manpower planning is not an integral part of organisation’s strategic planning process.

Ashford & McGuire’s ValuePlus solutions:

• Facilitate the collection and analysis of data to provide long term and short plans and forecast to meet our client’s organisation’s mission
• Assist in manpower planning by assessing company present and future needs (and resources).

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