... Purpose The study of an energy company in the US was intended to explore how employees’ emotions after downsizing impacted their learning following the downsizing event. Design/methodology/approach The authors elected to study an energy company based in Oklahoma City that had experienced...

... reports, committee records, union documents, press releases and other available sources, such as specialized journals and newspapers. Findings – Tries to show how massive job cuts have been implemented through a labor-mediated downsizing strategy that mitigates disagreement and industrial conflict...

... Keywords: Downsizing, Flexible working, Motivation, United Kingdom Quotes warnings from the third annual State of HR survey carried our recently in the UK that reducing the workforce and increasing the working hour and workloads of those who remain, will lead to increased stress...

...C.D. Zatzick © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 --> Downsizing Employee involvement Article Type: Abstracts From: Human Resource Management International Digest, Volume 18, Issue 3 Zatzick C.D., Marks M.L. and Iverson R.D. MIT Sloan Management Review (USA...

... © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 --> Redundancy Employees Performance appraisal R&D Innovation Dismissal Human resource management Downsizing Organizations Article Type: Abstracts From: Human Resource Management International Digest, Volume 17, Issue 1...

...J. Marquez © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 --> Recession Downsizing Retention Skills United States of America Human resource management Article Type: Abstracts From: Human Resource Management International Digest, Volume 16, Issue 6 Marquez J...

...H. Pinkerfield © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 --> Downsizing Morale Motivation United Kingdom The survivors (downsizing at Sony) Pinkerfield H.  Human Resources (UK), January 2007, p. 29 (2 pages) Purpose – describes how Sony has...

... Privatization Downsizing Human resource strategies Eastern Europe While telecommunication companies have struggled to keep pace with rapid changes in technology and customer expectations, few western organizations would have wished to face that challenge from the starting point of an eastern European...

... 2005 Downsizing Redundancy Redeployment Organizational change Career development When a new strategy at Prudential UK meant up to 20 percent of the workforce would be laid off or redeployed over two years, the HR team argued that compulsory redundancies and outplacement would...

... accordingly. The review is based upon “Communication during downsizing of a telecommunications company”, by Appelbaum, Lopes, Audet, Steed, Jacob, Augustinas and Manolopoulos (2003). As this article reveals, there is evidence that firms are becoming more attuned to the problems created during...

... Downsizing is no longer seen as a last resort or a response to crisis. Instead it has become a vital tool for shaping an organization to meet new challenges and circumstances. By now, few organizations have not been through this process. The benefits are clear, but it can also bring problems...