Client Situation
Our client is the first licensed non-profit shelter in the UAE for women and children victims of domestic violence, child abuse, and human trafficking. The firm wanted assistance to develop ‘best-in-class’ organization structures, job descriptions, rewards strategy, performance management system and HR processes & policies. Cedar was appointed for design phase & was later called in for implementation of the above initiatives.
Cedar’s Approach
Cedar conducted a detail internal assessment & market study to assess gaps in current structure & grading system
- Also conducted benchmarking study to determine market aligned compensation structure. In addition, Cedar also conducted fitment assessment interviews to assess & increments were awarded to employees based on this rating. Further this recommended salary was compared with benchmark & realignments were made if salary was below the minimum of the benchmark
- Cedar recommended organization structure, job descriptions, grading system, compensation including variable pay as well as HR policy based on the above
- Also assisted the client in rollout of the all initiatives
- Cedar deployed an employee satisfaction assessment to determine employee issues & concerns
Outcome
Cedar successfully assisted in implementing the recommended changes which resulted in
- Increased employee motivation which was duly reflected in the follow-up employee satisfaction assessment
- Cedar defined roles & responsibilities for all department & each individual resulting in greater clarity of role & greater focus
- Increased talent management through logical assessment of individual role fitment. The organization successfully made a transition from traditional government led HR policies to best-in-class market based recommendations made by Cedar on organization structure, JDs, compensation structure & policy manual.