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Downsizing and layoffs are a fact of corporate life, and leaders often need to make difficult decisions about personnel, and implement them. This section deals with whether downsizing and layoffs are ACTUALLY effect corporate strategies, and how leaders can communicate about, and lead through downsizing and layoffs to improve the results.

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  • 10 Compelling Reasons Not To Downsize
     By John DiFrances - Downsizing, rightsizing or any of the number of synonyms for cutting expenses and employees, may provide a decrease in operating expenses in the near term, but how will they impact the longer term future? (Added: 15-Oct-2002 Hits: 704 )
  • 10 Hard Truths About Layoffs
     By Linda Tischler - Who ever imagined that change-the-world companies like Cisco, Dell, and Hewlett-Packard would be laying off thousands of workers? And who thought that you would be among them -- or worried that you might be next? Here's a personal survival guide for tough times (Added: 18-Jul-2003 Hits: 609 )
  • Downsizing -- The Long Term Effects - Free Article
     By Robert Bacal - When managers are faced with downsizing, they tend to focus on the immediate and practical needs that emerge at the time when staff are being let go. After all, employees need to be selected and notified, one of the most difficult tasks for any manager. Jobs responsibilities need to be shuffled, and generally the period where downsizing is occurring is very busy and emotionally taxing. (Added: 15-Oct-2002 Hits: 737 )
  • Guide to Surviving a Layoff. Before it happens: avoid a job layoff by staying off the list.
     By Ruth Morss - It's a week before a layoff announcement at Acme Widgets. The financial analysis has been done, the legal requirements met, and the objective criteria for termination established. Now it's down to names. An unbiased process? "It's more human nature than you'd like to think," said Erisa Ojimba, compensation consultant for Salary.com. "You'd be surprised what people talk about." (Added: 18-Jul-2003 Hits: 603 )
  • How to Avoid a Layoff
     By George Gendron - How one company's workers chose voluntary leaves of absence instead of layoffs. (Added: 18-Feb-2003 Hits: 462 )

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