... Chief executives Layoffs Employee downsizing, defined as a firm’s planned strategic actions to reduce the workforce, has been an integral part of firm operations (e.g. Datta et al., 2010 ; Guthrie and Datta, 2008). Not surprisingly, it has also garnered significant attention from...

... that organizational experience both financial growth and decline engage in downsizing, but rationalize the downsizing differently (according to social accounts). © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 Uncertainty management Downsizing Organizational restructuring Human resource accounting Layoffs...

... creates important effects inside and outside an organizational environment. In fact, downsizing results in breaking the organization into several or many groups. A group of employees leaves, sometimes, a group may receive advance layoff notification and a group stays. Confusion is high because employees...

... consists 178 large publicly‐held US‐based corporations which announced their intentions to downsize during the 1990‐1992 period. The statistical analysis does support the hypothesis that as companies eliminate jobs and layoff workers, they are perceived as being less reputable, hence, less socially...

...David C. Band; Charles M. Tustin Corporate strategies directed at gaining competitive advantage and satisfying customers′ needs always have human resource implications, and tactics such as job redesign, multi‐skilling, redeployment, training,paying for performance, layoffs and downsizing should...