Some may think this is a week by week or month by month process it takes a year to eighteen months for a restructuring of this magnitude.
- You need a transition management team. First a decision maker is needed who knows the requirements of the business 2) Someone to analyze the data coming in.
- Someone to organize the process.
2nd) you need to communicate the restructuring plan to. Middle management.
3rd) A skills assessment of your employees who can play several rolls within the workforce.
4th) Prepare your severance pay in advance you only have to deal with disgruntled employees once.
5th) Put a talent development program in place, target key individuals cross skill multiple employees (sound familiar labor employees doing craft work)
6th) Roll sustainability do employees have a good relationship with each other, if possible pair those that do together.
7th) Review and reflect, do changes need made are employees in a roll to succeed you don’t want to keep shuffling the deck
This is just one outline but it seems like the model bnsf is using.
They already know who the axe is going to fall on already this takes a lot of pre planning and longer to come full circle most use a quarterly timeframe.