How do I propose a merger of departments to my boss? Of course I wold be the one in charge and the supervisor.

Answer 1

with a proposal

Answer 2

The data at a glance should give you the benefits that would be achieved by merger. How the following resources get benefitted because of the merger should be brought out in the first page, just to be noted in a glance;
man - by merger any reduction in man hours. shifts can be operated for benefit of better uti-lisation of other resources.
machine - any process change possible
method - routing helps and minimising of the movement of the product during the process.
money - reduction in expenditure
material - rejection rates will come down during the progress of work, inspection gets easier.
Overall supervision becomes easier as assigning of the jobs is made easy.
Some of these need elaboration in later pages of a detailed report which you will have to submit. But you broach the subject only one page with results at a glance. That will do the trick. Boss always thinks he has no time.
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Answer 3

Dear Boss,

I believe that the merger of department 1 and department2 would be beneficial to the company in the following ways.....

Make sure to include productivity improvements, cost savings, increase in revenue. Also include how to handle employees that might be duplicated between the 2 departments. Would they be layed off or retrained or transferred?

Keep your proposal short but concise. Schedule time with your boss, your bosses boss, the head of the both departments and their bosses to present the proposal.

Best of luck.

Answer 4

Tons of detail. You want to start with a summary. What is it that you propose? Why are you proposing it? What will the included proposal show?
Then you have your actual proposal. Go into detail about what you're proposing. Why will this be a good idea? Will it save money? Cost money? What about employees? Do you have to hire or fire? What will the drawbacks be? You have to include the downsides. Give as much detail as possible.
Your summary should be no more than 2 pages, but try to keep it to one.

Answer 5

Write a proposal listing the advantages of the proposed structure. If there's money saved, be sure to detail how. And list any disadvantages also (somebody will bring them up if your proposal gets off the ground, you might as well pre-empt them) and explain how those disadvantages would be overcome.

Use bullets rather than excess words, and try to keep it to a couple pages if possible.