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Certified Organizational Design and Manpower Planning Professional

Certified Organizational Design and Manpower Planning Professional

Why Attend

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.

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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 Meirc 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
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Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM)

Meirc is recognized by the Society for Human Resources Management (SHRM) as a Recertification Provider. This recognition implies that participants who attend any of the SHRM approved programs delivered by Meirc Training & Consulting will earn a number of Professional Development Credits (PDCs) which will help them maintain their certification in SHRM-CP or SHRM-SCP.

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Meirc Professional Certificate (MPC)

MPC certified courses by Meirc Training & Consulting are designed for those willing to challenge themselves and go the extra distance. Participants who fully attend an MPC course and successfully complete the test on the last day, will receive a Meirc Professional Certificate (MPC), in addition to the one they receive for full attendance. MPC certificates are regionally recognized and can be quite valuable when applying for more senior roles within the organization or outside.

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Schedule & Fees

2025 Schedule & Fees

Location & Date
21 - 25 Sep, 2025
Dubai
English
Paramount Hotel Midtown
26 - 30 Oct, 2025
Dubai
Arabic
Venue to be assigned
23 - 27 Nov, 2025
Dubai
English
The Heritage Hotel, Autograph Collection
Fees
Per participant

USD 6100

Fees + VAT as applicable

(including coffee breaks and a buffet lunch daily)

Discount Plans & Cancellations Policy

Meirc reserves the right to alter dates, content, venue, trainer, and to offer courses in an integrated virtual learning (IVL) format whereby face to face classroom participants and virtual learners participate simultaneously in the same course in an interactive learning experience.

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