Downsizing
- Topics:
- Layoffs
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Overview: This overview focuses both on downsizing in the narrow sense (workforce reduction) and on related, generally broader or more fundamental strategies such as rightsizing and rethinking. The document defines key terms, discusses why downsizing is important, highlights implementation approaches, tools, and results and lessons, and suggests next generation issues. It includes a selected, annotated bibliography; examples of experts and resources in downsizing; and illustrative examples of the various approaches (e.g, downsizing, rightsizing, rethinking). Because most lessons of experience suggest that workforce reductions are rarely effective undertaken in isolation (i.e., downsizing for the sake of downsizing is increasingly regarded as a highly ineffective strategy), the overview attempts to weave together themes pertinent to downsizing, to rightsizing, and to some extent to rethinking.
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Format: HTML | Date: Apr 1995 | Pages: 1
