What would the initial steps be to start planning for these changes? First the company should communicate to all employees making them aware of how the company want to achieve its goals focusing on its mission statement. The initial steps when planning for HR changes are:
• Staffing, involves the entire hiring process from posting a job to negotiating a salary package. Involving development of staffing plan, polices for variety of backgrounds in the workforce, recruitment to find people to fill vacant positions and selection to train, retain and motivate.
• Development of workplace policies to ensure fairness and continuity within the organization. Following policies such as discipline process, vacation time, dress code, ethics an internet usage policy.
• Compensation and benefits, includes anything the employee receives for his or her work. These involves setting up pay, health benefits, vacation time, sick leave, and 401K.
• Retention keeping and motivating employees to stay with the organization
• Training and development. Such as job skills training, communication and team-building
• Dealing with Laws affecting employment such as discrimination laws, health-care requirements, compensation requirements; minimum wage, worker safety laws and labor