MANAGING STRATEGIC HR PROJECTS $$ MGMT$-6048$

CASE STUDY$-$ GROUP PROJECT

CASE: IMPLEMENTATION OF CORE COMPETENCIES FOR ALL EMPLOYEES AT TECHNO DIGITAL CORPORATION

Techno Digital Corporation is a high technology firm focusing on the production of digital music. The head office is located in London, Ontario with two other branches located in Toronto and Calgary. The Head office has $1000$ employees and both the Toronto and Calgary offices have $500$ employees each. Since its founding in $2018$ the company has grown rapidly doubling its sales and thus enhancing its stock price many times over. Along with this there has been a rapid growth in staff, doubling in size.

The CEO, Valentina DeCarlo of this company understands that with such a rapid growth the strategic vision and mission of the organization needs to reinforced. As well, she wants to enhance the skill levels of the workforce and improve teamwork and coordination. As the CEO of this organization she would like to ensure that everyone in the organization is aware of the strategic goals and vision of this dynamic and growing corporation.

In order to remain competitive, the CEO wanted to capture what makes the company successful so she hired consultants from ABC Consulting Firm and asked them to conduct a needs assessment to capture the key behaviors of high achieving employees and use this data to define competencies for the organization. After an exhaustive analysis the consultants came up with the following competencies:

Understanding the corporate vision of the organization

Understand the strategy$/$goals of the organization

Communication

Collaboration

Creativity

Adaptability

Customer Service

Technical Expertise: $($most recent version of Microsoft Office$)$

The CEO would like every employee in the organization to be aware of the competencies relevant to their jobs and to discuss ways that the employees can demonstrate those competencies while performing their jobs.

The training needs to be completed within $9$ months from the first week of January. The budget for this project will not exceed $$400,000\mathrm{.}00.$

Competencies that need to be trained as determined by ABC Consulting Firm:

Tier one training:$($the entire organization is to be trained on the following competencies

$1.$ Understand the corporate vision of the organization

$2.$ Understand the strategy$/$goals of the organization

Tier two training: $($management is to be trained on the following competencies$)$

$3.$ Communication

$4.$ Collaboration

$5.$ Creativity

$6.$ Adaptability

Tier three training: $($non$-$management is to be trained on the following competencies$)$

$7.$Customer Service

$8.$ Technical Expertise$-($most recent version of Microsoft Office$)$

The hourly rate for each employee includes base pay, indirect pay and performance pay.

London Head Office

$1000$ employees $(400$ unionized, $600$ non$-$unionized$)$

$100$ senior managers $($non$-$unionized$)-$ $$250\mathrm{.}00/$hr

$150$ district managers $($non$-$unionized$)-$ $$125\mathrm{.}00/$hr

$150$ front line managers $($non$-$unionized$)$ $$125\mathrm{.}00/$hr

$100$ marketing $($non$-$unionized$)-$ $$125\mathrm{.}00/$hr

$100$ finance $($non$-$unionized$)$ $$125\mathrm{.}00/$hr

$100$ software developers $($unionized$)$ $$100\mathrm{.}00/$hr

$100$ software testers $($unionized$)-$ $$100\mathrm{.}00/$hr

$200$ associates $($administrative assistants$)($unionized$)$ $$85\mathrm{.}00/$hr

Toronto Branch

$500$ employees $(200$ unionized, $300$ non$-$unionized$)$

$50$ senior managers $($non$-$unionized$)-$ $$250\mathrm{.}00/$hr

$75$ district managers $($non$-$unionized$)-$ $$125\mathrm{.}00/$hr

$75$ front line managers $($non$-$unionized$)-$ $$125\mathrm{.}00/$hr

$50$ marketing $($non$-$unionized$)-$ $$125\mathrm{.}00/$hr

$50$ finance $($non$-$unionized$)-$ $$125\mathrm{.}00/$hr

$50$ software developers $($unionized$)-$$$100\mathrm{.}00/$hr

$50$ software testers $($unionized$)-$ $$100\mathrm{.}00/$hr

$100$ associates $($administrative assistants$)($unionized$)$ $$85\mathrm{.}00/$hr

Calgary Branch

$500$ employees $(200$ unionized, $300$ non$-$unionized$)$

$50$ senior managers $($non$-$unionized$)-$ $$250\mathrm{.}00/$hr

$75$ district managers $($non$-$unionized$)-$ $$125\mathrm{.}00/$hr

$75$ front line managers $($non$-$unionized$)-$ $$125\mathrm{.}00/$hr

$50$ marketing $($non$-$unionized$)-$ $$125\mathrm{.}00/$hr

$50$ finance $($non$-$unionized$)-$ $$125\mathrm{.}00/$hr

$50$ software developers $($unionized$)-$ $$100\mathrm{.}00/$hr

$50$ software testers $($unionized$)-$ $$100\mathrm{.}00/$hr

$100$ associates $($administrative assistants$)($unionized$)-$ $$85\mathrm{.}00/$hr

The rate of pay for the Project Manager, Trainer and Software Developer is as follows: The hourly rate for each employee includes base pay, indirect pay and performance pay.

Project Manager: $$175\mathrm{.}00/$hr

Trainer: $$85\mathrm{.}00/$hr

Software Developer: $$100\mathrm{.}00/$hr

I did all Question now is : Future palns $?$Next steps planned should also be explained as your group continues to proceed with the execution phase of the project, towards project completion. This is where you can ask me for more resources such as money, people or time. If you are asking for any of those items you will need to explain to me why you will need more resources $?$