Changes at Oz Industries and Reasons for New Direction

Hrm101 introduction to HR and Leadership
Assessment 2 case analysis
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1. Identify the changes at Oz Industries and determine the reasons for the new direction.
The are several changes at OZ industry that took place in order to enhance performance management. The
changes can be classified in terms of human resource and job process. In human resource context, changes of
personnel, board and senior management took place with long-serving employees of OZ industries being
replaced by new hires. In the change process, Meg O’Brien was appointed the Vice president of People and
culture as Carmelita was appointed as the new manager for human resource in the manufacturing division. In
terms of the job process, Carmelita role of being responsible for “payroll” has changed as the newly
implemented policies allowed the separation of HR and payroll (Stone, 2017).
The main reason for reshuffling the administration to take a new direction is to break the current
organizational culture and create a new culture that aligns with organizational structure and that will improve
the performances of the company. The hiring of new employees is one way of promoting workplace diversity
which in turn creates innovation and creativity in job process as research conducted by Okoro & Washington
(2012) on workplace diversity and organization communication shows that if an organization adopts diversity in
its HR practices, it is likely to breakdown the current norms and create an organization address the
contemporary performances.
2. Describe the issues which contributed to Carmelita’s position being made redundant. What are the
possible repercussions for the organization?
Contemporary developments and strategies adopted by the company to maximize profits resulted to
Carmelita’s position being made redundant. With Carmelita not ready to accept the change of new performance
appraisal program that emphasizes on goal setting and individual accountability and further question Peter and
Meg over the small issues, the management saw the long-serving employees including Carmelita were a barrier
to change and could influence the new employees to resist change. Furthermore, motivation issues also played