Tips for Organizations to Manage the Return to Office | Knowledge Labs

March 30, 2022 | Hamilton, ON
Contributed by Haniyeh Yousofpour, Assistant Professor, Human Resources Management

Tips for Organizations to Manage the Return to Office | Knowledge Labs: In the Know

As a response to the Coronavirus pandemic in 2020, many organizations enacted work from home policies. The changes were quick and reactive. These policies helped employees manage their new work environment. However, employees also didn’t have much choice in the new arrangement. Two years later, many of these same organizations are planning a return to office. As staff have gotten comfortable with their current situation, how can this new change be managed?

Haniyeh Yousofpour, Assistant Professor, Human Resources and Management, shares tips for how to engage employees in the return to work process to increase adoption and satisfaction amongst the workforce.

They include:

Share Your Vision
Include Employees in the Planning Process
Provide Your Rationale
Provide Information and Training
Give Employees an Incentive
Give Employees Resources
Create an Action Plan and Engage Employees
Monitor the Change
Embrace the Change

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Haniyeh Yousofpour

Assistant Professor, Human Resources and Management

Dr. Haniyeh Yousofpour is a Harvard educated award-winning business professor and consultant with a passion in passion in organizational change management, influential negotiation and effective utilization of human capital.

Dr. Yousofpur has a Ph.D. in Business Administration specializing in HR and OB, an MBA in Finance and BSc in psychology and sociology. Furthermore, she is a certified project management professional (PMP), certified six sigma (CSSGB) process excellence professional as well as Emotional Intelligence Certified Facilitator.

Dr. Yousofpour has led multiple change management initiatives and has provided integrative management consulting services to multinational Fortune 500 companies including Johnson and Johnson, Toyota, Pfizer, Bausch and Lomb; small to midsize growing organization like Paragon Securities, Quanser, Mahajan Home and professional consulting to various highly respectable academic institutions including University of Toronto, Queens University, McMaster, University of Waterloo and Canadian University of Dubai. She has also delivered numerous executive education training focusing on Change Management, Conflict Resolution, Effective Team Work and Influential Leadership in addition to presenting at several conferences globally as a keynote speaker (Global Women in Leadership, ASAC, CCECC, Failcon and etc).

Dr. Yousofpour’s integrative and distinctive approach; relying on a thorough assessment of the organization culture, goals, resources, limitations and human capital; enables her to design a customized and attainable solution scalable to a diverse range of clients.

In addition to her consulting practice, Dr. Yousofpour has lead academic accreditation initiatives and teaches various university graduate level courses globally and has received multiple teaching awards for her teaching excellence both locally and globally.

Tips for Organizations to Manage the Return to Office | Knowledge Labs