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Title
THE ROLE OF HUMAN RESOURCES IN ORGANIZATIONAL RESTRUCTURING: PERCEPTIONS OF
HR DEPARTMENT, LINE MANAGERS, AND EMPLOYEES
Faculty Advisor
Prof. Riyad Eid
Defense Date
07 May 2017
Abstract
The process of organizational restructuring is an integral and common aspect that has been integrated
into the growth and development of organizations all around the globe. It is mainly undertaken to ensure
that organizations are up to date with ever-changing external and internal business environments in order
to improve organizational effectiveness, efficiency and productivity.
The study empirically examines and rigorously investigates organizational restructuring covering all of the
stages that organizational restructuring process goes through, starting from the adoption stage, which
identifies the main reasons leading organizations to undertake organizational restructuring. Then the
study evaluates the role of the HR department in the organizational restructuring implementation and
finally, it examines the perception that line managers, HR department and organization employees have
towards the HR Department’s role played during the organizational restructuring. It takes into consideration
government and semi-government entities in Abu Dhabi Emirate, which have undergone restructuring in
the last four years. The research methods include desk research and a survey questionnaire given to
307 participants. The study proposes a conceptual framework, which can be used as a guide to improve
the management of organizational restructuring including its stages of adoption, implementation, and
perception/implications.
Dissertation
MOHAMED ABDULLA AL HAMMADI
Department of Business Administration
College of Business and Economics