Explain how can best address challenges ahrop implementation
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Text: Garey, R. W. (2011). Business literacy survival guide for HR professionals.
Alexandria, VA: Society for Human Resource Management.
Other resources: Tyler-Cagni, L., & Hills, J. (2008). HR leading by example during
Zegna transformation. Strategic HR Review, 7(1), 22-27.
Overcoming Challenges
Most people love change, or so they think-right up to the point that it impacts
them in an unanticipated way. If you were personally impacted by change in a way
you did not expect, would this create challenges for you? As a Human Resources
leader, you would want to plan for the successful implementation of your Annual
Operating Plan which we now understand well enough to know will impact everyone in
the organization. Implementation of the plan, thus, is likely to bring unexpected
changes that might result in challenges to some employees, and may result in
resistance or pushback from some employees, including even some in management.
Other challenges and obstacles can occur at the time of implementation, that were
not anticipated in the plan. Part of the planning process is to anticipate the most
likely challenges that might occur, and then to plan for them right in the AHROP –
not all of them, but the top most likely ones.
The article “HR Leading by Example during Zegna Transformation” notes that changing
organizational practices or policies like an HR plan might do, requires highly
effective and well-planned communications and even collaboration, if everyone is to
have buy-in into this plan.
Post by Day 2 a description of two challenges you believe a Human Resources
professional might face in implementing HR strategies in their Operating Plan
written to support the organization’s business direction in the year ahead and
using HR’s expertise. Explain how you can best address these challenges as part of
the AHROP implementation planning. Propose the Human Resources
Department/Division’s best approach to communicating this plan, and address the
importance of timing and whether everyone in the organization receives the same
information or whether it should be tailored.
