Downsizing and layoffs are a fact of corporate life, and leaders often need to make difficult decisions about personnel, and implement them. This section deals with whether downsizing and layoffs are ACTUALLY effect corporate strategies, and how leaders can communicate about, and lead through downsizing and layoffs to improve the results.
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By John DiFrances
- Downsizing, rightsizing or any of the number of synonyms for cutting expenses and employees, may provide a decrease in operating expenses in the near term, but how will they impact the longer term future?
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By Linda Tischler
- Who ever imagined that change-the-world companies like Cisco, Dell, and Hewlett-Packard would be laying off thousands of workers? And who thought that you would be among them -- or worried that you might be next? Here's a personal survival guide for tough times
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By Howard Stein
- The experiential realities of downsizing, reductions in force (RIFing), restructuring, reengineering, rightsizing, and outplacement, are often at wide variance with their touted, and widely expected promises of increased productivity, efficiency, team-work, role interchangeability, and profit. They often fall short of the promise of more for less.
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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 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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