• Background Information
• 23 min
  1. Restructuring: types, causes, and myths about outcomes

  • Prof. Wayne F. Cascio
• 40 min
  2. Talent management implications

  • Dr. Kim E. Ruyle
• Impact of Corporate Restructuring and Downsizing
• 43 min
  3. Employees and the great recession

  • Dr. Judith M. Bardwick
• 41 min
  4. Health effects of restructuring and downsizing

  • Prof. Johannes Siegrist
• 23 min
  5. Corporate judo strategy: leveraging the power of a competitor’s change to grow your own business

  • Prof. Todd J. Hostager
• Implementation Issues and Recommendations
• 62 min
  6. Implementation: a framework for facilitating employee adaption to major organizational transitions

  • Prof. Mitchell Lee Marks
• 55 min
  7. Why corporate restructuring and downsizing efforts often fail

  • Prof. Charles O. Trevor
• 19 min
  8. Alternatives to downsizing

  • Prof. Wayne F. Cascio
• 32 min
  9. Corporate restructuring & downsizing: theories, science, and lessons

  • Dr. Kenneth P. De Meuse

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1. Introduction
2. Employment downsizing
3. Downsizing isn't organizational decline
4. Downsizing: a form of restructuring
5. Forms of downsizing
6. HR matters in good times, it defines you in the bad
7. Extent of downsizing
8. Pfizer data
9. Why do it? A drop in demand
10. Industries that are shrinking or disappearing
11. Proactive downsizing (1)
12. Proactive downsizing (2)
13. Causes of employment downsizing
14. Nine myths about downsizing
15. Myth number 1
16. Myth number 2
17. The costs of layoffs
18. Direct costs
19. Myth number 3
20. Myth number 4
21. Myth number 5
22. Myth number 6
23. Myth number 7
24. Myth number 8
25. Effect of training $
26. Myth number 9
27. Summary

Topics Covered

• Employment downsizing
• Downsizing isn't organizational decline
• Downsizing: a form of restructuring
• Forms of downsizing
• Extent of downsizing
• Proactive downsizing
• Causes of employment downsizing
• Myths about downsizing
• The costs of layoffs

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• Corporate Restructuring and Downsizing

Categories:

• Management, Leadership & Organisation
• Technology & Operations

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Publication History

• Published on June 2, 2014