... cross-country evidence and links these restructuring decisions to theoretical frameworks in HRM. Restructuring encompasses a variety of concepts, including corporate restructuring, workforce restructuring, downsizing, rightsizing, Business Process Reengineering (BPR), strategic realignment, job...

...Yeongjoon Yoon Purpose Studies comparing the consequences of payroll cost reduction methods (i.e. cutting pay and downsizing) have been limited, with no studies comparing these methods' impact on job-seeker attraction. The current research tries to close this gap by comparing the effects...

... is the petroleum sector in Norway. The data consists of 11 interviews with managers at different levels in three firms. Findings The authors found that firms terminated over 80 percent of the consultant contracts, while around a forth of employees were downsized. A core-periphery strategy and union power...

... a labour-mediated downsizing strategy that mitigates contestation and industrial conflict. Originality/value – The paper tackles the relevant question of how unions respond to corporate restructuring (involving downsizing) in countries where industrial relations institutions remain relatively...

... that together they potentially provide a much stronger foundation for the DM agenda within the context of a downsizing process. Research limitations/implications The qualitative nature of the data makes generalisability to other organisations limited. In addition, case study fieldwork was not conducted...

... This research project used a qualitative approach that supported an in‐depth case study analysis. This included semi‐structured interviews that were conducted across a broad range of stakeholders associated with the Czech telecommunications sector. SHRM and downsizing theories were used to assist...

...Asma Bajawa; Jean Woodall Purpose The purpose of this paper is to report on case study research of employment downsizing and the implications for equal opportunity and diversity management conducted in the UK airline industry during 2002/2003. Design/methodology/approach Review of literature...

...Philip B. Beaumont; Richard I.D. Harris The “old” psychological contract, with its emphasis on employment security, has been held to have been violated because of extensive downsizing among white‐collar employees from the late 1980s and early 1990s. This proposition is tested here using...

...Koen Dewettinck; Dirk Buyens This paper reports on a study of the employment implications of different downsizing approaches using 19 case studies of Belgian organizations recently confronted with downsizing. Based on the results of this empirical study, a two‐dimensional categorization model...