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When conducted well, organisational redesigns motivate people and drive substantial value, but too often, they're undertaken for the wrong reasons, change experts say.

"The best reasons to change organisation structure are because the environment and/or the strategy have changed – for example to introduce a new line of business, or because significant cost reduction is needed," says Nous Group principal Greg Joffe.

"Unfortunately, we sometimes see senior leaders using organisation redesign as a 'force for evil', imposing disruptive changes across the organisation to address executive performance issues or because they don't have a clear enough strategy to win, but want to be seen doing something significant," Joffe tells HR Daily...