Category: Organisational Design
Making Career Progression Visible, Actionable, and Engaging
Sarah Lardner | 30 October 2025
Employee engagement | Organisational Design | Retention
Many HR divisions have been promoting the career development agenda, often as part of job evaluation or role frameworking exercises. Yet, all too often, these frameworks never translate into something employees can actually use to plan their careers. Without effective pathways — and ways to communicate them — organisations are inadvertently pushing workers toward the exit, compounding the very attrition problems they are trying to solve.
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Top tips for updating job architectures
Justine Woolf | 23 October 2025
Job Evaluation Software | Organisational Design | HR Technology
In today’s dynamic business environment, the way organisations design and manage roles is evolving fast. In many sectors, traditional hierarchy-based models are giving way to more flexible, agile frameworks that reflect the realities of modern workforces and life.
Career Mapping for the Future: How to Stay Competitive
Sarah Lardner | 25 September 2025
Organisational Design | Thought Leadership
Companies in the UK are having to work harder than ever to keep employees happy and in place. According to Work institute 2024, career-related reasons accounted for 18.9% of all staff turnover in 2024, and career development has been the leading cause of resignations for over a decade.
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Organisational Design: Meeting the challenges of a hybrid world
Sarah Lardner | 31 July 2025
Organisational Design | Hybrid Working
In many ways Organisational Design (OD) has never been more important, but the challenge facing our work-planning strategists is as daunting as ever. While many businesses have been quick to adapt to a new hybrid reality, and found the flexibility to thrive, others have been more sclerotic in response.
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Are you a triangle or a diamond? Four steps to understanding & using organisational design
Sarah Lardner | 07 May 2024
Reward Consultancy | Reward Intelligence | Organisational Design
Do you know the 'shape' of your organisation? In this blog, Sarah Lardner explores the value of Organisational Design and shares the steps to getting the right people with the right skills, the right roles and levels. Will your current OD shape align with your aspirational one...?
Organisational Design is moving away from the more traditional
16 April 2021
Having the right organisational structure is arguably more important than ever, and anyone embarking on reviewing their OD framework needs to come at it with a different mindset. To get us thinking about it a little differently, Sarah Lardner offers seven steps to get you started.
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Reframing reward post-COVID: create a foundation for recovery and growth
07 January 2021
Motivation | Pay & Reward | Organisational Design | Reward Strategy | Performance | Wellbeing | Covid-19
Moving from reactive to proactively assessing current state against the future aspiration will place HR in control and will enable space to create a compelling, effective and sustainable people strategy that can support the business to transition from the recovery phase to the growth phase. Sarah Lardner explains how.
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What shape is your organisation?
10 December 2020
All too often, organisation redesign is done focusing on the now, using existing job grading and identifying what cost can be cut out as opposed to thinking about the future. The desired shape, i.e. what skills do we need and at what level, is a critical part of this conversation.
Why job design and workforce planning are key to good employee mental health
23 October 2020
Organisational Design | Workforce Planning
Cathryn Edmondson reviews the key considerations in effective job design that can help organisations' maximise job satisfaction and the impact of their other wellbeing initiatives, and therefore make significant strides towards a mentally healthy workplace.
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Reshaping your organisation to achieve your desired results
17 June 2020
Organisational Design | Pay Structure
Taking the opportunity to reshape your organisation is something that many businesses are considering right now, and certainly for many it will be an unfortunate necessity due to pandemic-related reduced income meaning that it is no longer feasible to carry the staff overheads they previously could. But where is the best place to start?
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Harnessing the benefits of a diverse workforce
17 June 2020
Organisational Design | Job Descriptions | Recruitment | Diversity | Ethnicity Pay Reporting
The prominence of the Black Lives Matter movement comes at pivotal time for businesses as we face what could be one of the most severe recessions in a generation. At a time when companies are trying to forecast what the future holds in the context of unprecedented circumstances and how best to keep the lights on, it would be easy to lose sight of issues like diversity. Cathryn Edmondson details why it is vital that diversity remains high on the HR agenda.
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Transact, Transition, Transform: reframing for the demands of the new world
12 May 2020
Pay & Reward | Organisational Design | Agile working | HR Technology | Covid-19
Whilst the COVID-19 crisis was not predicted, a number of businesses were astonishingly well prepared and able to adapt with complete agility. But what comes next? Sarah Lardner reviews the actions businesses are taking to not only react to the situation as it unfolds, but to also begin to ramp up to recovery.
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