• 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. Health effects of restructuring and downsizing
3. Structure of the lecture
4. Importance of work for health
5. Work and health: what is known?
6. Changes in nature of work and labor market
7. Downsizing and restructuring occurs frequently
8. How does downsizing get under the skin?
9. Threatening experiences in relation to downsizing
10. Stress mechanisms linking work with health
11. Effects of downsizing on health (I)
12. Effect of unemployment on risk of MI
13. Effects of downsizing on health (II)
14. Quality criteria of research on ‘survivor disease’
15. Main stress related disorders
16. Organizational downsizing and mortality risk
17. The demand-control model
18. The model of effort-reward imbalance
19. Why to work in ‚high cost-low gain‘ conditions?
20. Measurement of the models
21. Work stress and CHD incidence
22. Meta-analysis on risks of CHD due to ’job strain’
23. Psychosocial stress at work
24. Control at work and blood pressure
25. Depression
26. Work stress and severe depressive symptoms
27. Major depression and work stress quartiles
28. Psychosocial stress at work and depression
29. Summary ‘survivor diseases’ (I)
30. Summary ‘survivor diseases’ (II)
31. Policy implications and conclusions in firms
32. What can be done at company level?
33. Improved control, autonomy overwork time
34. Initiatives at national and international level
35. Conclusions I
36. Conclusions II

Topics Covered

• Importance of work for health
• Adverse effects of downsizing on health
• Stress mechanisms
• Work intensity and job insecurity
• Threats to rewards
• Business case: negative health consequences
• Improving restructuring processes
• Best practice models
• Voluntary agreements and legal frameworks

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Series:

• Corporate Restructuring and Downsizing

Categories:

• Management, Leadership & Organisation
• Technology & Operations

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Publication History

• Published on June 2, 2014