Downsizing Organizations

Paper Summary:

This paper discusses whether downsizing of an organization has a significant impact on its employees and, therefore, present and future company health, as well as profitability and culture within the organization. The paper specifically analyzes the effects that downsizing has on an organization's employees from the point of view of the management and human resources.

Table of Contents:
Hypothesis
Literature Review
Methodology
Data Collection Methods
Study Subjects
Analysis of Data
Conclusions and Suggestions for Future Research

From the Paper:

" A study by Nantaporn & Kleiner (March 2003) noted that downsizing "often creates more problems than it solves - only rarely achieving its original financial objectives" (p. 52). This article also discusses three main types of downsizing workforce reduction; organizational redesign; and systematic strategies, and negative impacts, from downsizing, on morale of staff left behind, who are called "survivors", and also on the now displaced (or jobless) workers. The article also discusses better and worse (e.g., more or less painful) procedures for company downsizing."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Anderson, J.K. (1999). People management: The crucial aspect of mergers and acquisitions. Industrial Relations Centre, Queens University, Ontario, Canada: Industrial Relations Press.
• Baruch, Y., & Hind, P. (June 1, 1999). Perpetual motion in organizations: Effective management and the impact of the new psychological contracts on "Survivor Syndrome". European journal of work and organizational psychology, 8(2). 295-308.
• Behn, R. (1988). The fundamentals of cutback management. In Readings in organizational decline: Frameworks, research, and prescriptions. Eds. K. Cameron, R. Sutton, and D. Whetten, Cambridge, MA: Ballinger Publishing, 347-56.
• Bridges, W. (1991). Managing transitions. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley,
• Cartwright, S. & Cooper, C.L. (1994). The human effects of mergers and Acquisitions. Trends in organizational behavior. C.L. Cooper & D.M. Rousseau (Eds.). Chichester, England: John Wiley and Sons. 47-61.

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