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Why Donnelley Had To Coordinate Hr Activities

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Team Case #4, Chapter 4: Jobs and Work at R. R. Donnelley

Group 1: Kelsie Bennett, Alissa Carlson, Heather Cook, Aaron Couch, Krista Cvar

1. Discuss why Donnelly had to coordinate HR activities with the changes in jobs and work.

Donnelley had to coordinate HR activities with changes in jobs and work at the facility in order to maintain an effective, successful work environment. HR played a role in training when it came to the changes made, and the new technologies and innovation being introduced within company; an organization failing to adapt to change becomes outmoded or noncompetitive. Through digital imaging, the company is able to produce more of one product with enhanced quality in a shorter amount of time. HR addressed performance, …show more content…

One example would be implementing new programs without a heads up in the least. This left staff in the dark and figuring things out things came up, slowing productivity down and testing the patience of customers, creating stress and frustrations overall. It happened in correlation to a series of mistakes made through lack of communication on HR's end when it came to the IT departments. The implementing of new programs with no heads up definitely gets stressful. Other is in regards to electronic time cards; HR had not been clear on what types of shifts were allowed to work in accordance to union rules and there was some conflict on whether current shifts followed those rules. Here people were right following union policy, technology processing it was wrong, and shifts were approved. Lastly would be the timing of communications from HR on sensitive matters with organizations, where it is hard to find the win-win avenue, such as during and immediately after company mergers. Most within organizations are fulling aware of how easy communication can be with technology, and this becomes the double edge sword when information is not released timely, drawing suspicion as to why, or too carefully worded as to create questionable credibility of intent. In either case, it is not healthy for the work environment or organization on many

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