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Organisation Design

Design organisations that support strategy and performance.

Organisation design is about creating the structures, accountabilities, roles and interfaces required to deliver strategy.

Reward Associates brings together organisation, workforce and reward expertise so that structural decisions are practical, cost-aware and aligned with role and career frameworks.

Our support

  • Organisation design principles
  • Target operating models
  • Organisation structures
  • Accountabilities
  • Layers and spans
  • Decision rights
  • Role design
  • Interfaces
  • Governance
  • Capability requirements
  • Workforce cost
  • Implementation planning
  • Transition and communication

What effective design needs to resolve

  • How work creates value
  • Which capabilities are critical
  • Where decisions should sit
  • How teams and functions interact
  • What management layers are necessary
  • What span of control is appropriate
  • How roles and levels should be defined
  • What the design costs
  • How change will be implemented

Our approach

Understand

Clarify business strategy, workforce priorities, current arrangements and the case for change.

Analyse

Review evidence, data, market practice, employee outcomes, cost and risk.

Design

Develop practical options and test their impact with key stakeholders.

Implement

Translate the agreed approach into clear frameworks, governance, communication and action.

Typical outcomes

  • A structure aligned to strategy
  • Clearer accountabilities and decision rights
  • Reduced duplication
  • More effective interfaces
  • Appropriate layers and spans
  • Defined roles and capabilities
  • A practical transition plan

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Reward Associates can provide independent, senior-led support from initial diagnosis through design and implementation.

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