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Downsizing is one of the most frequently used business strategies for reducing costs, returning firms to profit or for restructuring businesses following takeovers, mergers and acquisitions. Downsizing measures are also set to become much more prevalent in the public sector as governments seek to restrict levels of public spending. This book is one of the first to provide a thorough study of downsizing from a global perspective. It examines the phenomenon in its entirety, exploring how it is initiated and what the process of downsizing looks like. It also looks at the effects of downsizing at a number of different levels, from the individual (e.g., motivational effects, effects on health and stress levels) to the organizational (e.g., financial outcomes, reputational and productivity outcomes). Written by an international team of experts, the book provides a comprehensive overview of downsizing that examines both the strategic and human implications of this process.

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Corporate divestiture --- Downsizing of organizations --- Corporate reorganizations --- Diversification in industry --- Industrial Management --- Management --- Business & Economics --- Industrial diversification --- Product diversification --- Input-output analysis --- Barriers to entry (Industrial organization) --- Multiproduct firms --- Corporations --- Reorganization of corporations --- Industrial management --- Consolidation and merger of corporations --- Corporate downsizing --- Organizational downsizing --- Retrenchment of organizations --- Retrenchment, Organizational --- Organizational change --- Employees --- Corporate spinoffs --- Divestiture, Corporate --- Divestment, Corporate --- Spinoffs, Corporate --- Disinvestment --- Case studies. --- Case studies --- Reorganization --- Dismissal of --- Divestiture --- 658.114 --- 658.114 Forms of enterprise in general. Private businesses --- Forms of enterprise in general. Private businesses

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Provides guidance on establishing a strategy of worker retention and worker displacement that will minimize the negative social impact of enterprise restructuring and respect the provisions of international labour standards. Looks at the reasons for workforce reduction and its impact on the individual and the company and sets out alternative options that managers should consider. Includes examples of best practice.

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This book is the fruit of a number of years of assimilating another culture and learning about the evolution of its institutions, altogether an incredibly rich and rewarding experience. I hope to pass onto the reader some of that richness in the belief that, even in a “globalizing” context, learning about other nations and cultures is more and more necessary. The reasons and values behind this belief are perhaps evident, but I am convinced that they bear repeating here. To begin with, the hasty generalizations that often lie behind the cynicism—and ultimately the violence—of ethnocentrism and xenophobia are still being aired today and still need to be fought, even in “unified and advanced” regions of the world like Europe and the United States. The historical and social sciences disciplines need to be solicited constantly in this combat, even though they themselves are terrains of controversy and contestation. I personally have not lost faith in their “progressive” potential and character. Second, my belief is that only through this process of appeal to these disciplines and their findings can we resist a dangerous contemporary slide into simplistic and sensationalist pictures of the world—viewpoints often associated with an implicit assumption that social and economic change are linear processes, so- how unfolding according to the same neat “logic” wherever they are at work.

Industrial relations --- Management --- Collective bargaining --- Labor supply --- Downsizing of organizations --- Labor contract --- Relations industrielles --- Personnel --- Négociations collectives --- Marché du travail --- Contrat de travail --- Employee participation --- Effect of technological innovations on --- Participation à la gestion --- Effets des innovations sur --- Réduction --- EPUB-LIV-FT SPRINGER-B --- Management. --- Personnel management. --- Labor economics. --- Sociology, general. --- Human Resource Management. --- Labor Economics. --- Sociology. --- Economics --- Corporations --- Employment management --- Human resource management --- Human resources management --- Manpower utilization --- Personnel administration --- Public administration --- Employees --- Employment practices liability insurance --- Supervision of employees --- Administration --- Organization --- Social theory --- Social sciences --- Personnel management --- Corporate downsizing --- Organizational downsizing --- Retrenchment of organizations --- Retrenchment, Organizational --- Organizational change --- Labor force --- Labor force participation --- Labor pool --- Work force --- Workforce --- Labor market --- Human capital --- Labor mobility --- Manpower --- Manpower policy --- Dismissal of

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From the 1980s on, a privatization of labor market-related risks has occurred in the OECD. Governments have cut the generosity of social programs and tightened eligibility rules, particularly for the unemployed. Government Ideology, Economic Pressure, and Risk Privatization: How Economic Worldviews Shape Social Policy Choices in Times of Crisis analyses these curtailments for eighteen countries over the course of four decades and provides an encompassing comparative assessment of the interactive impact of government ideology and economic pressure. It demonstrates that the economic worldviews of governments are the most important factor in explaining why cuts are implemented or not. While ideas of non-intervention in the market underlie cuts in generosity, ideas of equality and fairness are at the heart of stricter eligibility criteria. This book also shows that the impact of the economic pressures often held responsible for the marginalization of politics and government ideology is in fact conditional on the specific ideological configuration.

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