Hello,

We are a project management organization involved in design, engineering, procurement and construction of environmental projects like water and waste water
treatment plants for municipal and industrial applications.

Apart from job rotation within technical groups like Proposals, engineering, project management, etc, we are now thinking about giving opportunities even for senior professionals in functions like finance, HR, IT,etc.in Business Management.

We are planning for 2 options:

Option -1. The holder of the present assignment - eg. Manager - Finance will continue to discharge the same, he will have an almost equal level person to assist in day-to-day work, while he will try to take up another assignment - say business process changes. Over a period of time the transition will be completed - depending on the success, etc. In the new assignment, Manager- Finance will be assisted with a person with suitable base knowledge.

Option-2. The holder of the present assignment - eg. Manager - HR will completely give up his role and take up the new business role that will be identified.

Now, I have 2 questions for this group, based on such initiatives done elsewhere:

1. Which of the above options can be preferred and why?

2. For a HR person with typical Behavioural background, what kind of new role can be thought about?

I would be delighted to provide more information, if specifially needed by anyone, in this regard.

Thanks in advance for your time and effort.