Do downsizing and layoffs actually help companies succeed? You may be surprised at the answer. How do you succeed and survive layoffs and downsizing? Material in this section will help you understand the process and outcomes of downsizing.
By Meridian
- This overview focuses both on downsizing in the narrow sense (workforce reduction)and on related, generally broader or more fundamental strategies such as rightsizing and
rethinking. The document defines key terms, discusses why downsizing is important,highlights implementation approaches, tools, and results and lessons, and suggests next
generation issues.
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By Robert Bacal
- When managers are faced with downsizing, they tend to focus on the immediate and practical needs that emerge at the time when staff are being let go. After all, employees need to be selected and notified, one of the most difficult tasks for any manager. Jobs responsibilities need to be shuffled, and generally the period where downsizing is occurring is very busy and emotionally taxing.
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By Thomas Hickok
- In this article Hickok argues that, ultimately, the most prominent effects of downsizing will be in relation to culture change, not in relation to saved costs or short-term productivity gains. In particular, the author notes three observations in relation to the impact of downsizing on organizational culture
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By Anne Fisher
- Surviving the Downturn
Market turmoil. Layoff announcements. Sounds like a good time to review your career road map. Here's how--and what to do if the worst happens.
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By Ruth Morss
- It's a week before a layoff announcement at Acme Widgets. The financial analysis has been done, the legal requirements met, and the objective criteria for termination established. Now it's down to names. An unbiased process? "It's more human nature than you'd like to think," said Erisa Ojimba, compensation consultant for Salary.com. "You'd be surprised what people talk about."
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