...Sarah M. Miller; JungHwan Kim; Doo Hun Lim Purpose This study aims to explore how employees’ emotions after downsizing impact their learning that they partook in after the downsizing event. Design/methodology/approach The methodological approach was a qualitative case study. Nine employees...

...LaVerne Shook; Gene Roth Purpose This paper seeks to provide perspectives of HR practitioners based on their experiences with mergers, acquisitions, and/or downsizings. Design/methodology/approach This qualitative study utilized interviews with 13 HR practitioners. Data were analyzed using...

...Verena Marshall; Dede Bonner This paper examines the relationships between career anchors, age, culture, gender, employment experience and the impact of downsizing on career planning. Presents the results drawn from 423 graduate business students in Australia, the USA, Malaysia, South Africa...

... are becoming more systematic in identifying measures to overcome losses caused by downsizing by proactively developing learning systems to capture, record and manage the knowledge of operational employees and engineering/technical staff. This paper discusses the nature of the planned “brain‐drain” phenomenon...

...Steven H. Appelbaum; Eric Patton; Barbara Shapiro The literature on downsizing and downsizing through early retirement programs lead to a clear conclusion: managers must take a very thoughtful approach to downsizing. Poor planning, knee‐jerk reactions, miscommunication with employees...

...(SME) sector, and one of the best prospects for the creation of SMEs is for them to be spun off from state firms as they disaggregate and downsize. Among the barriers to this are the lack of experience in creating new venture spin‐offs and the lack of entrepreneurial managers to take charge of them...