People in Projects

Ideas for Getting Started

• Do your homework. The human resource department should explore organizations in your industry that have used the fourteen approaches/staffing options listed earlier. Find out what worked and what didn’t. Human resources should prepare its findings in easy-to-skim documents so that executives can grasp the essence of these approaches quickly.

• Convene a meeting of senior management. Explain why this issue is critical. (Words like survival and profitability come to mind.) Go over the alternatives, and then ask executives to apply the questions listed earlier to the alternatives that hold the most appeal. Encourage them to consider each alternative as an ingredient in an omelet—one approach might be okay, but blending a ...