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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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Pour la première fois une enquête est faite concernant les licenciements pour inaptitude en Corse du Sud dans le service interentreprises. Ce service de santé au travail prend en charge plus de 80% des travailleurs salariés du département, dans le privé et le public. Au niveau national, il n’existe pas les chiffres fiables. Cette enquête apporte un relevé quantitatif (de 2012 à 2014) et un relevé qualitatif (2014) quant aux licenciements pour inaptitude. Au total 1429 dossiers informatiques ont été consultés dont 903 retenus pour cette étude (respectivement 291 pour 2012, 307 pour 2013 et 305 dossiers pour 2014) ainsi que 305 dossiers médicaux papiers pour 2014. Le licenciement pour inaptitude est une procédure médico-juridique, encadrée par le code du travail et beaucoup de jurisprudence. Seul le médecin du travail peut prononcer « une inaptitude au poste » et de ce fait porte une lourde responsabilité. Les résultats de l'enquête en Corse du Sud montrent des résultats superposables et relativement stables de 2012 à 2014 en ce qui concerne le taux d'inaptitude, le sexe ratio, la taille des entreprises, les secteurs d'activité et le niveau de qualification. En 2014, le taux d'inaptitude est de 0,74%. 53% des salariés déclarés inaptes sont des hommes contre 47% de femmes, alors que la population salariée féminine représente 43%.La tranche d'âge la plus touchée est celle de 50 à 59 ans. 57% des déclarés inaptes ont moins de 50 ans. 73% viennent d'entreprises de moins de 50 salariés et 78% n'ont pas le niveau bac. Les inaptitudes proviennent principalement des secteurs du commerce et de la construction, suivie par le secteur de la santé. L'étude des causes des inaptitudes montre une origine professionnelle dans 64% des cas dont 45% sont des atteintes physiques, principalement ostéo-articulaires, et 15% de pathologies psychiques, liées à des risques psycho-sociaux.Les atteintes physiques sont la première cause d'inaptitude pour les hommes, alors que les pathologies psychiques concernent principalement les femmes. Au vu de ces résultats, des actions de prévention primaire et secondaire sont à développer, ciblant prioritairement les entreprises du commerce et de la construction de moins de 50 salariés en lien avec les partenaires intervenant dans la prévention des risques professionnels et le maintien dans l'emploi.
Personnel Downsizing --- Risk Assessment --- Occupational Medicine --- Professional Impairment
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"The U.S. Department of Defense is one of the world's largest employers, with more than 1 million men and women on active duty and hundreds of thousands of civilian personnel. To control costs, the government has implemented several initiatives over time to adjust personnel levels, reduce spending outright, and streamline management. In this report, RAND researchers analyze several issues related to direction from the Secretary of Defense in 2013 to reduce headquarters spending by 20 percent and to strive for 20-percent reductions in headquarters staff authorizations. Specifically, they assess whether the Air Force achieved a 20-percent reduction in headquarters spending and personnel end strength by fiscal year 2015 (when compared with plans for fiscal year 2018); compare the Air Force's methodology and approach to reductions with practices from literature and industry, focusing on organizational design, process improvement, consulting practices, and sound management practices; and identify opportunities for further reductions. The authors conclude that the Air Force did indeed achieve its planned 20-percent reduction in spending and end strength, and that all major commands contributed to those savings. In addition, they found that the Air Force's approach to reducing its headquarters management functions included many sound practices, such as identifying improved business processes that streamline information flow and eliminate work, eliminating or combining redundant organizations, and ensuring that work is conducted at an appropriate organizational level"--Publisher's website.
Downsizing of organizations --- Evaluation. --- United States. --- Headquarters --- Reorganization --- Personnel management
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Capitalism --- Competition, International --- Downsizing of organizations --- Economic history --- Work
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Downsizing of organizations --- Forecasting --- History --- United States --- Armed Forces --- Reorganization.
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Corporations --- Downsizing of organizations. --- Employees --- Layoff systems. --- Finance. --- Dismissal of.
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Since the early 1980s, economic experts have recommended "downsizing" as the best way for U.S. corporations to remain competitive. Reducing unnecessary staff would lower costs, increase profits, and transform these companies into lean, mean production machines. As many American businesses pursued this strategy-often in the wake of mergers and acquisitions that left them with an unwieldy layer of middle management-and raised their bottom line, it seemed the experts were right. Yet as David M. Gordon shows in this iconoclastic book, most of them have really only gone halfway. They are "mean, " but far from lean.Tracing the overall employment patterns of the past decade, Gordon shows that most American companies actually employ more managers and supervisors than ever before. These ever-increasing functionaries control company payrolls and pay themselves generous salaries-at the expense of average workers. For despite a steadily growing economy the real wages of the American worker have been falling for the past 20 years. To explain this decline and the much-debated "wage gap" that resulted, pundits and professors invoke various causes ranging from the flow of production jobs overseas to the average worker's lack of the technological skills needed in today's "knowledge economy." But Gordon exposes the single greatest factor in this decline, a corporate strategy that penalizes line workers and hinders businesses from competing effectively in world markets: the simultaneous overstaffing of management hierarchies and the inadequate compensation of workers.Instead of sharing profits with their employees, thus encouraging them to work harder, management has more often opted to prod workers by instilling fear of layoffs. Gordon unerringly plots the shortsighted and disastrous course of U.S. corporations, and documents the tremendous social and personal costs to their employees. Yet in addition to telling the harsh truth about downsizing, he suggests policies to ensure fairer business practices. Wages can increase- indeed, they must-as the economy begins to perform more efficiency.U.S. corporations have become fat and mean. They need to become lean and decent-not just for the sake of their workers, but for the sake of their competitive advantage. This provocative and original book shows how they can.
Industrial management --- Bureaucracy --- Corporations --- Downsizing of organizations --- Wages --- Labor productivity
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Implementing a layoff is one of the most difficult and painful challenges a manager can face. Handled skillfully and compassionately, a layoff can set your team and your company on a positive new path; but, when handled improperly, layoffs can have negative effects that impact morale, productivity and more.
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This guide is not aimed at board Chairmen of global companies or at the Human Resource Directors of large organisations; it is aimed at the small-business owner or the line manager who is actually going to have to look someone in the eye and tell them that they don't have a job any more
Corporations -- Finance. --- Downsizing of organizations. --- Employees -- Dismissal of. --- Layoff systems.