Managing Redundancies Series

HRwisdom recently asked one of its contributors, Jacqui Alder, what was her advice for businesses having to make employees redundant?

Jacqui Alder is a consultant with extensive and diverse experience across Human Resources, change management, organisational development and industrial relations.

Jacqui’s experience has been gained across a variety of industry sectors including:

Resources
Manufacturing
Transport
Government
Defence

Jacqui has had significant achievements across a range of areas, with projects including:

Organisational change
Culture change
Organisational redesign
Systems implementation
Workforce reform
Cost improvement

We asked Jacqui to share her expertise in different aspects of the difficult process of managing redundancies in the workplace.

In the redundancies interview, we will take a look at:

What are the advantages and disadvantages of offering voluntary redundancies versus conducting forced redundancies/involuntary redundancies?
What are the steps involved in the redundancy process?
How to select people for involuntary redundancy?
How to communicate throughout the redundancy process?
Should you march someone out immediately when making them redundant?
How can you implement redundancies without destroying all employee goodwill?
A case study.