Astute employers use management consultants as expert advisors for unique situations or transactions, for special projects, and to support critical initiatives. Consultants provide new ideas and an independent, objective perspective.
Organizational Analysis
From time to time, employers should reassess their organizational structure to ensure it meets current needs. Perhaps the organization has grown too fast, allocated insufficient time for critical planning, or failed to develop and train new leaders. Maybe you simply want to examine the effectiveness of your current structure and determine if you are competitive.
Our organizational analysis includes a review of your mission statement, by-laws, organizational structure, staffing, financial statements, budget, and other relative documents. We also review applicable legislation, rules, regulations, and case decisions that affect your organization. We will analyze the information and perspectives provided through interviews of key staff members and recommend any advisable restructuring, or other practical initiatives, solutions, or alternatives.
Operational Analysis
Sometimes an organization’s problem is not its structure, but its methods of operation. The organizational structure may be sound, management may be experienced, and the workforce may be motivated; however, other problems persist. Management is deluged with demands for more money, time, and people. Communications are poor, or workflow is continually bottlenecked. Equipment or work methods are outdated and trivial issues/meetings take too much of your valuable time.
When conducting an organizational analysis, we examine communications, work objectives, assignments, and workload distribution. Through a series of interviews with you and your staff, we obtain an in-depth knowledge of your operations, which gives us the ability to provide objective and workable solutions to your problems. We will analyze the information and perspectives provided through interviews of key staff members and recommend any advisable restructuring, or other practical initiatives, solutions, or alternatives.
Performance Management
While many employers are successful in protecting their interests at the bargaining table, they often lose, through careless contract administration, that which they fought so hard to gain in negotiations.
Savvy employers know the importance of taking a proactive approach to effective contract administration. Our expert staff will review your labor contract, draft a summary of all negotiated changes, and identify the intent behind those changes. This information will then be used to develop a customized training program that instructs your supervisors in the proper implementation of the contract.
Our staff can also assist you with the more troublesome and time-consuming aspects of administering a labor contract, such as employee discipline, grievances, arbitrations, and basic contract administration.