Change Leadership : Downsizing And Layoff Challenges
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Top : Change Leadership : Downsizing And Layoff Challenges - Downsizing and layoffs are a fact of corporate life, and leaders often need to make difficult decisions about personnel, and implement them. This section deals with whether downsizing and layoffs are ACTUALLY effect corporate strategies, and how leaders can communicate about, and lead through downsizing and layoffs to improve the results.
Managing Layoffs For Leaders
What's one of the toughest tasks facing leaders today? It's the process of downsizing, and laying off employees, some of whom may have been with the organization for a very long time.
The challenge goes far beyond the emotional side of the process. What happens after layoffs? Do companies that downsize actually benefit in the long run? It turns out that the research on this is fairly consistent. CEO's surveyed tend to believe (after the fact) that layoffs they were involved in did NOT actually help their organizations.
It's complex. Not only do leaders have to lead a workforce that may be demoralized by seeing good employees -- friends -- let go, but often layoffs cut too close to the bone, leaving hte organization scrambling to do well after they have lost talent.
There are no easy solutions, except to avoid layoffs entirely, but we live in a short term world.
In this section you'll find help about how to manage the changes associated with downsizing and layoffs.
Advice For Leaders On Downsizing, and Managing and Leading Through Layoffs:
10 Hard Truths About Layoffs
By Linda Tischler
- Who ever imagined that change-the-world companies like Cisco, Dell, and Hewlett-Packard would be laying off thousands of workers? And who thought that you would be among them -- or worried that you might be next? Here's a personal survival guide for tough times
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10 Hard Truths About Layoffs
By Linda Tischler - Who ever imagined that change-the-world companies like Cisco, Dell, and Hewlett-Packard would be laying off thousands of workers? And who thought that you would be among them -- or worried that you might be next? Here's a personal survival guide for tough times (Added: 18-Jul-2003 Hits: 874 )
A Research Review on Leading Downsized Organizations | David Noer
By David Noer - READ IT: One of our articles of special merit on leadership. This article summarizes both academic and practitioner based research on the prevalence and ineffectiveness of downsizing as a response to global economic stress. It points out that a crucial leadership challenge involves re-recruiting layoff survivors and revitalizing downsized organizations. It offers leadership strategies to move organizations back to productivity and presents representative best practice case studies. new (Added: 14-May-2012 Hits: 0 )
A Rotating Layoff to Save Jobs
By Ellyn Spragins - Establishing rotating work weeks as an alternative to layoffs. (Added: 18-Feb-2003 Hits: 819 )
Downsizing -- The Long Term Effects - Free Article
By Robert Bacal - When managers are faced with downsizing, they tend to focus on the immediate and practical needs that emerge at the time when staff are being let go. After all, employees need to be selected and notified, one of the most difficult tasks for any manager. Jobs responsibilities need to be shuffled, and generally the period where downsizing is occurring is very busy and emotionally taxing. (Added: 15-Oct-2002 Hits: 1134 )
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