Delivering effective change management

Personnel Today looks at the strategic contribution HR can make to organisational change, with case studies from Co-operative Insurance Services, Colt Telecommunications and East Sussex County Council.

  • Rules of change   Colin Carnall, associate dean at Warwick Business School, explains how HR can enable successful change.

  • How to make change happen    Sue Weekes profiles large-scale change management initiatives at Co-operative Insurance Services and Colt Telecommunications.

  • Road to success   Martin Reddington draws on the main themes from his book, Transforming HR: creating value through people, to provide a checklist that HR can use to ensure that change projects succeed.

  • Leadership is key    Simon Kent reports on how East Sussex County Council implemented a new HR IT system in 12 months.

    Also

    A new culture   A culture change programme integrating core values into all activities, from recruitment to leadership development, helped medical equipment manufacturer Bayer Diagnostics improve performance and morale. By Alex Blyth, writing in Personnel Today.

    History in the making    Isobel Hunter, HR director at English Heritage, describes the challenges of implementing a controversial programme of culture change.

    Inside Whitbread's turnaround strategy, Case study: culture change at HSA and Case studies: Corporate turnaround and culture change    HR & Compliance Centre presents a selection of links to named organisation case studies and other articles on the role HR can play in turnaround strategies and culture change initiatives.

    Stand and deliver: can HR do the business?    Writing in IRS Employment Review, Rachel Suff rounds up current research on HR's strategic role and presents case studies of recent initiatives.

    Delivering HR Strategy and HR strategy forum   From Personnel Today.