HR Role Message

Scenario Engage Learning has just undergone a structural reorganization in which all functional leader roles were replaced by cross-functional product leader roles. During its reorganization, 30% of the company’s employees were laid off, and now the remaining employees are unsure and skeptical of their roles within the organization. In addition, Engage Learning promoted employees to serve in all of the newly created cross-functional product leadership positions. You are the new Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) who was promoted from a Human Resources generalist position during the structural reorganization. The CEO of Engage Learning has asked you to speak with the cross-functional product leaders to establish working partnerships amongst the product groups. The CEO has asked you to prepare a message for the company’s first annual Employee Appreciation Day celebration to establish the facilitative role of Human Resources within the new, cross-functionally aligned organization. Prepare a motivating, written message with a graphic that: Discusses the prior limitations of the functional-based organizational structure. Imparts the optimistic opportunities available with the new, cross-functional product groups. Introduces the facilitative role of Human Resources within the performance management system to help each cross-functional product group achieve its goals. Describes specific examples of activities that attest to the facilitative role of Human Resources within the performance management system. Includes a graphic illustrating the alignment of a performance management system to strategic organizational goals. Concludes with a slogan to reiterate Human Resources’ facilitative role within the strategic goals-based, performance management system. Provides attribution for credible sources used in the written message