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 practice in the industry. After the merger, you find yourself on a team of four other individuals that 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 and downsizing plan presentation with speaker notes that can be used in each department.

• Answer the following questions in your plan:
• Who will be affected? How will they be affected? How will potential conflict be managed?