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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.

Downsizing of organizations. --- Organizational change. --- Change, Organizational --- Organization development --- Organizational development --- Organizational innovation --- Management --- Organization --- Manpower planning --- Corporate downsizing --- Organizational downsizing --- Retrenchment of organizations --- Retrenchment, Organizational --- Organizational change --- Employees --- Dismissal of --- Downsizing of organizations --- E-books

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Layoff systems --- Downsizing of organizations --- Hours of labor --- Alternative work schedules --- Children --- Labor, Hours of --- Work hours --- Work schedules --- Working-day --- Working hours --- Work --- Labor productivity --- Labor time --- Timekeeping --- Weekly rest-day --- Corporate downsizing --- Organizational downsizing --- Retrenchment of organizations --- Retrenchment, Organizational --- Organizational change --- Employees --- Job security --- Dismissal of --- E-books --- 331 --- 331 Arbeid. Labour economics. Arbeidseconomie --- Arbeid. Labour economics. Arbeidseconomie

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Social responsibility of business. --- Downsizing of organizations. --- Discrimination in employment. --- Entreprises --- Personnel --- Discrimination dans l'emploi --- Responsabilité sociale --- Réduction --- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS --- Organizational Behavior --- Management --- Business & Economics --- Management Styles & Communication --- Responsabilité sociale --- Réduction --- Bias, Job --- Employment discrimination --- Equal employment opportunity --- Equal opportunity in employment --- Fair employment practice --- Job bias --- Job discrimination --- Race discrimination in employment --- Corporate downsizing --- Organizational downsizing --- Retrenchment of organizations --- Retrenchment, Organizational --- Business --- Corporate accountability --- Corporate responsibility --- Corporate social responsibility --- Corporations --- CSR (Corporate social responsibility) --- Industries --- Social responsibility, Corporate --- Social responsibility of industry --- Social responsibility --- Employment (Economic theory) --- Organizational change --- Employees --- Business ethics --- Issues management --- Dismissal of --- Social aspects --- Affirmative action programs

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In this bold new perspective on the United States-China power transition, Paul K. MacDonald and Joseph M. Parent examine all great power transitions since 1870. They find that declining and rising powers have strong incentives to moderate their behavior at moments when the hierarchy of great powers is shifting. How do great powers respond to decline? they ask. What options do great powers have to slow or reverse their descent?In Twilight of the Titans, MacDonald and Parent challenge claims that policymakers for great powers, unwilling to manage decline through moderation, will be pushed to extreme measures. Tough talk, intimidation, provocation, and preventive war, they write, are not the only alternatives to defeat. Surprisingly, retrenchment tends not to make declining states tempting prey for other states nor does it promote domestic dysfunction. What retrenchment does encourage is resurrection. Only states that retrench have recovered their former position.MacDonald and Parent show how declining states tend to behave, what policy options they have to choose from, how rising states respond to decline, and what conditions reward which strategies. Using case studies that include Great Britain in 1872 and 1908, Russia in 1888 and 1903, and France in 1893 and 1924, Twilight of the Titans offers clear evidence that declining powers have a wide array of options at their disposal and offers guidance on how to use the right tools at the right time. The result is a comprehensive rethinking of power transition and hegemonic war theories and a different approach to the policy problems that declining states face. What matters most, the authors write, is the strategic choices made by the great powers.

International relations. --- Regression (Civilization) --- Hegemony. --- Great powers. --- Powers, Great --- Super powers --- Superpowers --- World politics --- Hegemonism --- Political science --- Sociology --- Unipolarity (International relations) --- Decline of civilization --- Civilization --- Progress --- Coexistence --- Foreign affairs --- Foreign policy --- Foreign relations --- Global governance --- Interdependence of nations --- International affairs --- Peaceful coexistence --- World order --- National security --- Sovereignty --- Philosophy --- realist foreign policy, cutting the defense budget, decline and retrenchment.

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"The massive changes under way in capitalist commodity production include the transition from a traditional or Fordist approach to a post-Fordist one, involving practices such as employee involvement, continuous improvement, and gain-sharing. In this research monograph, Bob Russell explores the changing character of industrial relations and labour processes in two staple industries: potash and uranium mining." "Using an innovative case-analytic approach, Russell compares the managerial strategies used by five transnational firms."--Jacket

Mineral industries --- Potash industry and trade --- Potash mines and mining --- Uranium industry --- Uranium mines and mining --- Downsizing of organizations --- Industrial relations --- Capital and labor --- Employee-employer relations --- Employer-employee relations --- Labor and capital --- Labor-management relations --- Labor relations --- Employees --- Management --- Corporate downsizing --- Organizational downsizing --- Retrenchment of organizations --- Retrenchment, Organizational --- Organizational change --- Mines and mineral resources --- Nonferrous metal industries --- Potassium industry and trade --- Alkali industry and trade --- Extractive industries --- Extractive industry --- Metal industries --- Mines and mining --- Mining --- Mining industry --- Mining industry and finance --- Industries --- Dismissal of --- Canada. --- Canada (Province) --- Canadae --- Ceanada --- Chanada --- Chanadey --- Dominio del Canadá --- Dominion of Canada --- Jianada --- Kʻaenada --- Kaineḍā --- Kanada --- Ḳanadah --- Kanadaja --- Kanadas --- Ḳanade --- Kanado --- Kanakā --- Province of Canada --- Republica de Canadá --- Yn Chanadey