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Downsizing: organizational restructuring involving outsourcing activities, replacing permanent staff with contract employees, and reducing the number of levels within the organizational hierarchy, with the intention of...; Downsizing definition on BNET »

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JPMorgan Sees Bear Clients Returning, Job Cuts: NEW YORK (Reuters) - JPMorgan Chase & Co JPM, which is buying Bear Stearns Cos BSC, expects to regain business from Bear clients who stopped doing business with the troubled investment bank, JPMorgan's co-chief executive of investment banking said on Wednesday....; Tags: Financial services, Investment, Mergers & Acquisitions, Workforce management, Bear Stearns & Co. Inc., J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., investment banking, downsizing, merger, bank, capital market, New York, Thomson Reuters Corp., Webcast, asset; News items 2008-05-07
Survivors Can Soar After downsizing: During layoffs and downsizing is not the time for organization leaders to retreat to board rooms and private offices to plan the future. After a downsizing, or following any major change, for that matter, leaders must be visible and accessible. Layoff survivors need to interact with their supervisor and the...; Tags: Workforce management, downsizing, layoff, leader, supervisor, board; White papers
downsizing Survivors: Motivating the Employees Who Remain After Layoffs: Most organizations invest their efforts in helping the downsized employees move on. This is ethical, reasonable and positive. Plus, survivors are watching. To truly benefit from the layoffs and downsizing that one experienced, however, one needs to invest even more energy in the people who remain after downsizing and layoffs....; Tags: Workforce management, downsizing, layoff, workplace, benefit; White papers
Intranet Rationalization: The Politics of downsizing: There's been a lot of attention paid to intranets lately, which can only be encouraging news for those who believe in the power of an effective internal website. Intranets are natural drivers of employee productivity, communications, collaboration and supporting overall corporate effectiveness. While it's not the most scientific data point,...; Tags: Intranet, downsizing, Web site, collaboration, blog; White papers
Exploring Alternatives to downsizing: Major changes such as mergers, reengineering, Enterprise Resource Planning Systems ERP, and restructuring often result in downsizing. It doesn't have to be that way. This paper provides some proven alternatives that can help to cut costs while ensuring the commitment of valued employees. Market pressures force organizations to change rapidly....; Tags: Workforce management, Enterprise resource planning (ERP), downsizing, ERP, re-engineering, staffing, merger, leader; White papers

Ideological Foundations of Perceived Contract Breach Associated With downsizing: An Empirical Investigation: This paper explores the effects of three managerial ideologies on the degree of psychological contract breach perceived in connection with a downsizing event. Results from surveys conducted in the U.S. and Singapore suggest that a strong belief in the ideologies of market competition or shareholder interest reduces the perceived contract...; Tags: Workforce management, AllBusiness.com, ideology, downsizing, shareholder, survey; White papers
Life Before downsizing: Six Secrets to Managing Change and Creating Opportunities for the Future: In this ever changing world one live in, there is one constant?change. Changes are happening faster and faster. Even what is changing has a different look. Why would one thinks his career situation will be the same in twenty years? The same types of changes are happening in the workplace....; Tags: Professional development, career, downsizing, workplace, technique; White papers
How to Boost Morale After downsizing: How to Boost Morale After DownsizingLessons from a corporate downsizingReaders interested in recovering after downsizing might find the chapter on "Practicing spirit-centered leadership: Lessons from a corporate layoff" of interest. It can be found at http://www.trafford.com/06-1721 , http://arcleadershipgroup.net/publications.html , or on a number of other sites such as Amazon ....There...; Tags: Workforce management, downsizing; Discussion threads 2007-09-01
Staying in the Loop When Telecommuting: Telecommuting allows you to have full-time employment and a steady paycheck while experiencing the independence enjoyed by the self-employed. You can dress comfortably and avoid the hassles of commuting, saving substantially on gas and parking or public transportation. You also have a quiet workspace to yourself, making it easy to...; Tags: BNET Editorial, telecommuting, coworker, workspace, career, downsizing, Microsoft Office, supervisor, transportation, team, phone line, phone, environment, workplace, photograph, network, marketing, performance, job, e-mail; Articles 2007-10-31
How to Boost Morale After downsizing: So far this year, Gap Inc.'s laid off 1 percent of its workforce(1,500 employees) to offset losses sustained under the direction of ex-CEO Paul Pressler. While downsizing cuts costs on paper, this presupposes remaining employees will remain productive -- which might be a challenge if workers fear for their own...; Tags: Workforce management, Recruitment & Selection, Lori Deschene, downsizing; Blog posts 2007-08-09
Understanding Pricing Issues: In an era of increasing globalization, the costs of labor, transportation, and materials constantly fluctuate. This presents a problem because it creates new complexities and encourages new competition. This also presents an opportunity because those complexities challenge your organization to re-evaluate its pricing process regularly. Doing this will help you...; Tags: Pricing, Marketing research, BNET Editorial, pricing decision, pricing strategy, re-engineering, globalization, transportation, downsizing, Process Management, inflation, outsourcing, income, supply chain, tool, marketing, strategy, benefit; Articles 2007-10-02
Surviving Repeated Waves of Organizational downsizing: The Duration and Order Effects Associated With Different Forms of Layoff Contact: This paper examines recency/duration effects of layoff contact, and the order effects associated with different types of layoff contact experiences. Workers employed by a large company engaged in repeated waves of downsizing completed questionnaires in 1997, 1999, and 2003. At each time, they reported the types of layoff contact they...; Tags: Workforce management, Recruitment & Selection, layoff, downsizing, job, worker; White papers 2004-09-03
downsizing, Job Insecurity, and Firm Reputation: This paper uses a simple two-period model to study how firms make layoff decisions in the presence of adverse shocks. It analyzes how the amount and sequencing of downsizing are determined when workers' expectations about their job security affects their on-the-job performance. The paper finds a fundamental tradeoff between laying...; Tags: Workforce management, Recruitment & Selection, downsizing, tradeoff, layoff, worker, job, performance; White papers 2004-09-01
Reserving in a Changing Environment: Responding to the Impact of Layoffs, Plant Closures and downsizing in Reserving for Workers Compensation Liabilities: In some instances, the impacts of layoffs and plant closures on workers compensation costs have resulted in a doubling of the pure premiums whereas, in other instances there were no appreciable effects on workers compensation pure premiums. This paper discusses some of the issues surrounding estimating workers compensation losses during...; Tags: Benefits, Workforce management, Casualty Actuarial Society, workers compensation, closure, layoff, downsizing, environment; White papers 2004-08-12
Repeated downsizing Contact: The Effects of Similar and Dissimilar Layoff Experiences on Work and Well-Being Outcome: This paper describes a longitudinal study, which compared 1244 white and blue-collar workers who reported either zero, one, or two contacts with layoffs; all participants were employees of a large manufacturing company that had engaged in several mass waves of downsizing. Consistent with a stress-vulnerability model, the study found that...; Tags: Workforce management, Recruitment & Selection, downsizing, layoff, worker, manufacturing, health care, job; White papers 2003-12-01
Downside Of downsizing: The outsourcing bug has hit the corporate sector hard. Today, most companies are taking the help of companies overseas that provide cheap labor. Thus, experts suggest that using workers from outside the company decreases overhead cost. Companies use a combination of permanent and temporary staff to deal with shifts in...; Tags: American City Business Journals Inc., outsourcing, overhead cost, downsizing, worker; White papers 2003-09-19
Identifying, Retaining, And Developing High Potential Employees: Many downsizing initiatives were used as performance management tools to help eliminate the over-hiring that occurred during the boom and the inevitable redundancy it created. Managers had to identify their strongest and weakest members. Through multiple rounds of downsizing, solid performers also ended up being let go. Many managers had...; Tags: Workforce management, Aon Corp., downsizing, performance management, technique, performance; White papers 2003-04-01
Double-Digit Growth in No-Growth Times: It's every company's goal to grow when market is in downfall but only few manage to achieve. This article provides strategies and tactics to make the company grow again, drawn from in-depth research on companies that have been registering double-digit growth for years. Tired of cutting costs and downsizing...; Tags: Workforce management, downsizing, core business, strategy, asset; White papers 2003-04-01
Employee Separation And Retention: To avoid downsizing and lay-offs, it is imperative for organizations to concentrate on hiring the ‘right’ candidate for the ‘right’ job. The perfect ‘match’ between the candidate and the job at hand should be established. It is, often, seen that downsizing does not work in the long-run as it is...; Tags: Workforce management, Recruitment & Selection, Ohio State University, downsizing, termination, job, hiring, strategy; Presentations 2003-02-27
downsizing: Limbo Lower Now: Managing a company might be easy, but managing the finances is tough task to do. As a result, companies resort to extensive cost cutting techniques to reduce the financial burden. But, at times, companies just go over the board to reduce their overall expenses. Thus, they employ certain tactics like...; Tags: Benefits, Financial accounting, CFO Publishing Corp., salary, downsizing, finance, technique, board, financial; White papers 2003-02-01