Article 12/2022

What are the different phases to be adopted in formulating a strategic organisational redesign model?

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Phase 1 should entail assessing the environment within which the organisation operates in respect of threats and opportunities, industry analysis, etc.

Phase 2 should focus specifically in assessing the organisation in respect of identified and relevant considerations, such as core competencies, organisational capabilities, culture, stakeholders, business patterns, value creation, etc.

Having executed phases 1 and 2, the strategic organisational team should be in a position to formulate the strategic intent to be adopted in such exercise – Phase 3.

Phase 4 entails the actual strategic organisational design, dealing with strategic groupings, strategic linking, alignment and value creation – this is, in essence, the restructuring process envisaged by the Labour Relations Act.

Phase 5 entails the continual aligning of the identified strategic intent with implementation that should result in the required strategy implementation.

What is an employer to do when it suspects that a medical practitioner is issuing pre- signed sick notes, or permitting its employees to buy sick notes, or, alternatively, is engaging in some other dubious practice regarding the issue of sick notes? What is an employer to do when it suspects that a person is not entitled to practice as a medical doctor?

Are you required to interpret any of the following: pre-trial minutes, strike ballot guidelines, the LRA, a separation agreement, a benefits dispute, an arbitration award, the BCEA, a restraint of trade, a traditional disciplinary enquiry charge sheet, the constitution of a trade union, etc?

The labour appeal court recently, in Murray and Roberts Cementation (Pty) Ltd v AMCU obo Dube and Others (2024) 35 SALLR 116 (LAC), confirmed important principles relating to the formulation of traditional charge sheets, determining the
fairness of a dismissal, the interpretation of a charge sheet and the reason(s) relied upon by the employer to justify the dismissal of an employee.