Architect your workforce
Be conscious of your workforce architecture. Own it end-to-end, don’t allow it to be an accidental byproduct of other activities.
Effective workforce architecture is crucial for aligning your human resources with your strategic objectives. Our approach focuses on creating dynamic, flexible role structures and career pathways that evolve with your organisation’s needs. This contrasts sharply with traditional, static role structures that often fail to adapt, leading to misalignment and inefficiencies.
Key steps
- Define Dynamic Roles:
- Roles: Create roles that are adaptable and can evolve with changing business requirements. Each role should have a clear purpose and contribute directly to strategic objectives.
- Levels: Establish levels within each role to provide clear career progression opportunities. Levels should reflect increasing responsibilities and required competencies.
- Group Roles Flexibly and Create Recognised Pathways:
- Related Roles: Organize roles into families based on similar functions or skill sets. This simplifies management and development processes, and facilitates collaboration and mobility within role families.
- Flexible Groupings: Ensure that role families are flexible and can be redefined as organizational needs change. This prevents rigidity and allows the workforce to adapt quickly to new challenges.
- Pathways: Develop career pathways that are flexible and allow for lateral and vertical movement within the organization. This encourages internal mobility and helps retain talent.
- Actively Manage Legacy Roles: Develop plans to reduce reliance on roles that sit outside of the defined workforce architecture. Ensure these plans are executed over time until the roles are removed.
How we can help
Our AI-powered role mapping and normalisation helps you to consolidate duplicates, handle outliers and create a single source of truth for your workforce data. This enables you to make informed decisions about your workforce architecture and align it with your strategic objectives.