In the 80’s, globalisation was much vaunted as offering the Western world a dazzling new array of business opportunities. In the 90’s, however, the negative impact on the labour market has become all too evident. A look at Germany’s labour statistics shows a frightening picture of massive job destruction in the wake of globalisation. As firms contend with heightened international competition an...

Delayering and the flattening of organizational hierarchies was a widespread trend through the 1990s. Peters (1992) in the USA promoted flattening as an organizational strategy and Keuning and Opheij (1994) promoted the prescriptions in Europe. Despite these strategies and apparent structural changes, the number and ratio of managers appears to have grown. This paradox of managerial downsizing ...

Today, companies of every size are relying on Internet and other network connections to support their business. For each of those businesses, information and network security have become increasingly important. Yet, achieving a security level that will adequately protect a business is a difficult task because information security is a multifaceted undertaking. A successful information security ...

UBLIC sector downsizing is becoming an increasingly important ingredient of economic reform in developing countries. Among the unfortunate legacies of state-led development, bloated bureaucracies and overstaffed public enterprises are especially problematic. Labor redundancies are particularly severe in the transition economies of Central Europe and the former Soviet Union, where the shift from...

This article briefly outlines the problems facing public organizations, particularly hospitals, as they attempt to survive in a turbulent environment. One solution to coping with organizational crises is downsizing. However, there are often negative effects on personnel when an organization reduces the work force or experiences major change. A model describing stages of organizational and indiv...

The extreme downsizing effect on 2D SCO nanoparticles resulted in a two-step hysteretic behavior and stability aqueous dispersions.