• 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. Overview
3. Definitions
4. Layoffs, downsizing and restructuring
5. Downsizing context: antecedents
6. Downsizing context: consequences
7. Why does downsizing failure occur
8. Layoffs in a vacuum
9. Following the leader
10. Time orientation of managerial decision-makers
11. Beyond questionable decision-making
12. Effects on “survivors”
13. Why downsizing fails: effects on survivors
14. Effects on survivor turnover (1)
15. Effects on survivor turnover (2)
16. Effects on survivor turnover (3)
17. Effects on survivor turnover (4)
18. Effects on survivor turnover (5)
19. HR practices matter for downsizing outcomes (1)
20. HR practices matter for downsizing outcomes (2)
21. Survivor turnover: high human capital (1)
22. Survivor turnover: high human capital (2)
23. Job performance-related factors
24. Effects on survivor performance
25. Why survivors might perform worse than before
26. Why survivors might perform better than before
27. What might influence survivor job performance?
28. Beyond survivor effects
29. Effects on “victims”
30. Why downsizing fails: effects on victims (1)
31. Why downsizing fails: effects on victims (2)
32. Why downsizing fails: effects on victims (3)
33. The 3 main components of why downsizing fails
34. Recommendations (1)
35. Recommendations (2)
36. Recommendations (3)
37. Additional information
38. Final thoughts

Topics Covered

• Layoffs, downsizing & restructuring
• Downsizing context
• Why does downsizing failure occur: Questionable decision-making on whether and how to downsize
• Beyond questionable decision-making
• Effects on “survivors”: Voluntary turnover & Job performance-related factors
• Effects on “victims”
• Recommendations

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Series:

• Corporate Restructuring and Downsizing

Categories:

• Management, Leadership & Organisation
• Technology & Operations

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Publication History

• Published on July 8, 2014