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Certified Organizational Design and Manpower Planning Professional

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Certified Organizational Design and Manpower Planning Professional

This course answers one simple question: “What is the best way to help organize and assist a group of professionals to focus on achieving a collective objective?” Hence, the course aims to enable participants to maximize their organizational structure's efficiency and effectiveness in compliance with strategic objectives, environmental complexity, and workforce availability and readiness to perform.Moreover, organizational design is perceived and should be a collective responsibility, whereby human resources professionals would facilitate and guide the process. Considering this, the course will provide a toolkit that will enable HR staff to facilitate and guide the process systematically. The toolkit includes all needed resources, from reflection/brainstorming charts used at the analysis stage to design templates and ending with working sessions’ agendas and facilitation guides. In other words, the course considers and favors the functional needs of its participants and considers their ability to implement. PrerequisitesNone — open to managers at all levels

Overview

Course Methodology

 

The course briefly reflects on the history and evolution of organizational design. It then dives into a functional operational approach to designing or redesigning organizations' organizational structures. Moreover, the course includes skill-building sessions on how to redefine jobs and eventually reevaluate those affected by design initiatives. An innovative toolkit approach will be adopted, enabling participants to immediately implement what they have learned. 

 

Course Objectives

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

  • Differentiate between common organizational structure archetypes and realize the impact of each on individual and organizational performance
  • Analyze organizational design elements, including, but not limited to, strategic goals, scope of operation, governance, competence, and span of control
  • Co-design or redesign organizational structure using a departmental operating model
  • Apply workforce planning methods to define workforce gaps on departmental and organizational levels
  • Use HR skills needed for an organizational design professional, such as job evaluation and job description writing

Target Audience

The course is designed for human resources professionals, HR business partners, and HR planning staff who are directly involved in planning or overseeing the processes of organization design. 

Target Competencies

  • Organizational Design
  • Workforce Planning
  • Job Evaluation
  • Job Description Writing
  • Compensation and Benefits
  • Learning and Development 

Course Outline

  • The Evolution of Organizational Design Models
    • Definition and objectives of organizational design
    • Evolution of organizational design models and the characteristics of each
      • Leavitt Diamond Model (technology, task, people, and structure)
      • Galbraith Star Model (strategy, structure, processes, rewards, and people)
      • McKinsey 7S model (strategy, structure, systems, staff, skills, styles, and shared values)
      • Burke-Litwin model (McKinsey 7S model factors in addition to external environment, performance, and feedback)
  • Organizational Archetypes
    • Common types of structures and the implications of each on organizational effectiveness
      • Functional
      • Geographical
      • Customer or Market
      • Product
      • Process
      • Matrix
      • Network
      • Structured network

The work standardization framework

Estimating the span of control 

  • Design Methodology for a Departmental Operating Model
    • Who should be involved, and what is the role of HR?

Definition of a departmental operating model

Components of an operating model

Purpose and objectives: What the department exists to do

Functional scope and services: What's in/out of scope

Organizational structure: Org charts and key roles

Process architecture: Core processes, flows, and KPIs

Technology and Systems: Tools, integrations, and automation

Governance and decision-making: Decision rights and escalation

Roles & Responsibilities: Accountability matrix

Performance measures: KPIs and SLAs

  • Workforce Planning
    • Defining workforce planning 
    • Forecasting employee needs
      • Static approach
      • Dynamic approach  
    • Keys to successful workforce planning 
    • The strategic staffing processes
    • Demand analysis 
      • Trend analysis 
      • Ratio analysis
      • Zero manning methodology
    • Capturing and tabulating information 
  • Essential Skills to Master as an Organizational Design and Workforce Planning Professional
    • Job evaluation: The Gulf Training Institute job evaluation system uses and implications
    • Job description writing for new or amended roles in compliance with the job evaluation system factor requirements
    • Salary structure and incentive schemes
    • Improving staff readiness levels through learning and development

Certificate of Completion

Issued by Gulf Training Institute

Upon successful completion, participants receive a certificate of completion from Gulf Training Institute.

Schedule & Fees

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18 Oct 2026
to 22 Oct 2026
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to 05 Nov 2026
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08 Nov 2026
to 12 Nov 2026
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22 Nov 2026
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