What tactics will be used to achieve a successful restructuring/downsizing transition? What tactics will be avoided?

In this assignment, you will explore group dynamics, team building, team roles, norms and team rules. By understanding how teams work effectively within an organization and how individuals work effectively within teams, you will gain greater insight into how to function effectively within a team.

Review Ch. 8, 10, and 12 located in the textbook.

Scenario:

You have worked at your current employer for five years. Recently your company merged with a much larger Boston Accounting Firm to improve efficiencies, increase revenues, cut costs and adopt best practices in the industry. After the merger, you find yourself on a team of four other individuals whom you have never met. Each individual is from a different department: Auditing, Tax, Corporate Governance, Legal, and Insurance. The purpose of your team is to downsize your department in terms of employees.

Create a 10-slide restructuring/downsizing plan presentation, with speaker notes included, which can be used in each department. The plan should answer the following questions:

Why is the change needed?

What will change?

Who will be affected?