Topic: Managing Staffing Levels (Post Covid)
Answer: You must treat people fairly of course but managing businesses, as you probably know, sometimes requires tough decisions to be made. The first thing to realise it that you must retain the right people – the people who have the ability, mindset and desire for the business to succeed. Their previous performance should tell you objectively that these people should be ring fenced.From there you need to departmentalise the situation and determine from which areas you must reduce the number of people and where you can afford to, operationally. Remember that in losing people the work they do remains so you must ensure that your new structure covers that work or your performance in the customer’s eyes will drop and you will start the slow road to oblivion. You must follow an objective selection process by creating a ‘selection pool’ in each area with jobs ‘at risk’ of redundancy. This process is quite detailed and there are plenty of information sources to advise you on the correct redundancy practices. This process ensures that people are treated objectively and fairly without subjectivity and favouritism.
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