You will also need to develop a 10-point checklist by selecting which suggested criteria below are most important to include to gauge readiness:

• Implementation of HR processes
  • Identifying new roles
  • Interviewing for new roles
  • Onboarding for new shifts
  • Determining performance processes
  • Determining corrective action processes
• Company handbook revisions
• Town halls for stakeholder communication
• Additional staffing (second and third shift, maintenance)
  • Roles per shift
  • Shift configuration
  • Design of the shifts
• HR awareness for high-level training for new roles
• High-level training for second and third shifts
  • Training for new machinery

Directions

For this project, you will develop a memo and a checklist to assess organizational changes. Be sure to include Milestone One revisions and note that there are additional elements to the memo in this assignment.

Your VPHR is now asking for you to develop a checklist to identify whether your facility is ready for the upcoming changes. The VPHR has provided a list of different opportunities in the facility that are important to consider monitoring as the facility prepares to grow.

Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:

Memo

1. Define the role to play in identifying, preparing for, and implementing change to prepare for future growth in a facility, specifically, the HR role in facilitating, developing the team, and tracking the work.
   1. Consider skills and tools needed to implement change.
2. Explain the change management process, providing examples to support claims.
   1. Consider key elements in the change management process.
3. Recommend a relationship-building process with all managers and informal leaders, with emphasis on how this process will be tracked.
   1. Consider roles of different types of managers.
   2. Consider elements of tracking.
4. Describe a communication strategy for introducing the change to the organization, providing examples to support rationale about the strategy's effectiveness.
   1. Consider functions HR departments perform with communication, implementation, and tracking of change.
5. Recommend HR processes for supporting organizational changes while providing examples to support recommendations.
   1. Consider areas and departments that may need more support than others.
6. Identify steps the organization needs to take to prepare for the addition of two shifts, including staffing needs and HR processes, using the 10-point checklist.
   1. Consider individual and team-based developments for effective change management.

Checklist

1. Select which criteria are most important to gauge readiness, based on the employee survey feedback provided in the Supporting Materials section and based on the current state of the organization.
   1. Consider most essential needs for the organization.
2. Develop a 10-point checklist to assess readiness for change.
   1. Consider a company's definition of readiness.
3. Develop criteria using the checklist to identify if the facility is ready for these changes.
   1. Consider criteria that connect to essential organizational needs.

What to Submit

To complete this project, you must submit the following:

HR Change Readiness Package Submit your memo and checklist as a Word document, 2 to 3 pages in length (not including the title page). Use double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, and one-inch margins.

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