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Number Of People Remaining Employees
1,277 wordsAccording to a 1997 survey by the American Management Association (AMA), the most often claimed reasons for downsizing are organizational restructuring, business downturn, and reengineering of business processes. Downsizing has adversely affected 43 million jobs since 1980. Many organizations are realizing that downsizing may not be the best solution for reducing costs. The time and money it takes to train employees often make downsizing a wasteful procedure. By changing their business strategy,...
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Competitive Advantage Lower Wages
1,191 words... m staffing alternatives include hiring linked to vision, cross training, succession planning, redeployment within the organization, creating value-added and revenue-enhancing opportunities, a comprehensive model, reduced hours, lower wages, attrition, alternative placement, leave of absence, employee buy-outs, and shared ownership (Maurer 13). A brief synopsis explaining the virtues and liabilities of the mentioned alternatives is listed henceforth: Redeployment within the organization/Alter...
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Impact Of On Nurses Working Conditions
1,600 wordsThe world health care sector, as the industrialized organizations, has undergone dramatic restructuring and downsizing during the past decades, which incurred serious changes of conditions in which nurses deliver healthcare. As human resources management strategies seemed to have had a positive effect on the similar problems beard by other industries, it appears that the public healthcare sector as failed to endeavor in the same way and is still struggling to design and implement effective schem...
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Competitive Advantage Great Deal
1,558 wordsDownsizing has become a significant idea in today's economy and maintaining the trust of employees when something like this takes place has also become very serious business (Brockner, Konovsky, Cooper-Schneider, Folger, Martin, & Bies, 1994). The question is not whether a company should downsize their employees but how to do the downsizing properly so that as few employees as possible are injured (Brockner, Konovsky, Cooper-Schneider, Folger, Martin, & Bies, 1994). There are several way...
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Total Quality Management Collar Workers
1,560 words... y are downsizing, many companies are also becoming advocates of high involvement work systems and creating strategies for total quality management (Cole, 1995). While these are being implemented, the process of downsizing is continuing all throughout the company (Cole, 1995). Unfortunately, to make total quality management and high involvement work systems work properly the empowerment and trust of employees is needed (Cole, 1995). This is something that is usually lost when downsizing occur...
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Competitive Advantage Early Retirement
1,592 words... its but early retirement for those that might be nearing retirement age (Kuzlowski, Chao, Smith, & Hedlund, 1993). Some other employees might welcome the idea of the change of employment or the ability to switch to the status of a consultant (Kuzlowski, Chao, Smith, & Hedlund, 1993). Quite often, these individuals will use this to start their own business, which is a dream for many individuals in his country (Kuzlowski, Chao, Smith, & Hedlund, 1993). There is a danger, however, a...
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Taking Place R Amp
1,640 words... ions are answered and concern is shown for employees (Hirschhorn & Gilmore, 1992). It is also very important that top management be very honest and open about the reasons that the downsizing is taking place (Hirschhorn & Gilmore, 1992). This will help to avoid much of the distrust that will normally come from finding out that jobs are about to be lost (Hirschhorn & Gilmore, 1992). If the company can communicate its vision and surviving employees see the personal control that they...
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Human Resource Manager 21 St Century
1,463 wordsDownsizing; everyone has heard about it, talked about it, been a victim of it, or even had to implement it. Reports of downsizing occur frequently. I have repeatedly read the newspaper, watched the news on television, or listened to the radio and heard about mass lay-offs. There have been times that I have felt pity for the various people who lost their jobs, and there have been instances that I have not given it a moment's consideration. I just thought, "I'm so glad it is not happening where I ...
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Flexible Work Arrangements Reduce The Amount
1,589 wordsIf the workplace of today could be characterized by a single theme, it would most likely focus on the continual presence of change. Dramatic changes in technology, the marketplace and the workforce have compelled organizations to re-evaluate not only the competitiveness of their products, but also the core ways in which work is performed. It is out of this pursuit for continued survival that organizations have been faced with the notion of varying work-schedules beyond the traditional hours of n...
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One Of The Major Remaining Employees
1,502 wordsCorporate Downsizing Corporate Downsizing INTRODUCTION Downsizing, restructuring, rightsizing, even a term as obscure as census readjustment has been used to describe the plague that has been affecting corporate America for years and has left many of its hardest working employees without work. In the 1980 s, twenty-five percent of middle management was eliminated in the United States (Greenberg/Baron 582). In the 1990 s, one million managers of American corporations with salaries over $ 40, 000 ...
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Wall Street Journal Stock Prices
2,209 wordsIntroduction The U. S. economy was at the height of economic expansion, stocks were near all time highs, corporate profits were strong, and the unemployment rate was at its lowest in two decades. At the same time, the major corporations in the United States were firing workers by the hundreds of thousands, and job insecurity had risen to an extremely high level. What was also ironic was the fact that the corporations who were initiating the downsizing's were considered to be some of the stronges...
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Human Resource Professionals Alcohol Abuse
1,586 wordsThis being the day of the great downsize many managers are hurrying to make the cuts and in doing so closely examining their Employee-Assistance Programs for effectiveness. What are they? How do they help? How do they work? Are they worth the hassle? What are they? By definition employee-assistance programs (Eap's) give a business the means for identifying employees whose job performance is negatively affected by personal problems. Eap's should arrange for structured assistance to solve those pr...
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Low Interest Rates Consumer Confidence
1,181 wordsA good reading on the outlook for the U. S. economy can be had by closely watching indicators such as consumer confidence, unemployment, and corporate downsizing. The chances of an U. S. recession will rise and fall with these measures. For the moment, each is holding their own. The national state of mind has reflected the economy around us. With the economy booming as a whole, so has the individuals view of the economy. The individual is taking advantage of the good times, thus fueling the econ...
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Minimum Wage San Francisco
1,075 wordsMy Country Tis of Thee If youve been to San Francisco lately, then you know homelessness is a big problem. Its impossible to go anywhere in the city without being confronted by panhandlers and other individuals living in exile. More and more common is the frowzy vagabond with the sign Homeless. Will work for food. God Bless. Even outside urban communities, this has become a prevalence at busy intersections and freeway off-ramps. Im not trying to say homelessness is a newly emerging problem in ou...
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Deal With Stress Randomly Selected
1,714 wordsStress in the Workplace How do you cope with stress in the workplace to achieve a more balanced lifestyle? Stress is a part of everybody's life. Depending on the level of stress, it can control our lives, especially in the workplace. We begin to spend several long hours at work, and thus have less time for other things. Stressed employees may be unhappy and thus produce nominally. Stress can deteriorate social and family relationships and eventually burn you out; ultimately it can take toll on y...
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