Authorities throughout the developing world are turning to downsizing in an effort to reduce budget deficits and address the inefficiencies engendered by state-led development strategies. Because large-scale involuntary dismissals are often politically difficult, a voluntary approach to reductions in public sector employment is increasingly popular among developing-country governments, multilat...

Effective internal communication contributes to the overall organizational communication that aims to maintain a sustainable reputation during times of change. Arising from this belief, this paper aims to develop a theoretical framework in which the type of communication content, flows, channels, and climate better fits into the planning, implementation, and revitalization phases within the dow...

Over the past decade a number of analysts have argued that we have seen the end of the traditional managerial career. In this paper we examine how various types of downsizing affect the organizational career systems. We take the career system perspective of Sonnenfeld and Peiperl (1988) and examine how delayering, earlier retirement and other common forms of downsizing disrupt or reinforce thes...

IND Pub In a representative sample of 13,683 U.S. employees, we compared survivors of layoffs, offshoring, outsourcing, and their combinations to a group who experienced no downsizing. Survivors of layoffs perceived lower organizational performance, job security, affective attachment, calculative attachment, and had higher turnover intentions. Offshoring survivors perceived lower performance, f...

Downsizing is seen as a commonly chosen strategy to improve organizational efficiency, effectiveness, performance, competitiveness, and regain financial stability. After the decision on downsizing was made conducted, special attention should be placed those employees who survived downsizing. The purpose of this paper observe how procedural fairness method applied impacts survivers' behaviour. p...

Workforce downsizing through employee layoffs has become commonplace in American businesses over the last 20 years. While these initiatives are typically undertaken in the quest for improved firm performance and competitiveness, empirical research to date has been equivocal in supporting the efficacy of these initiatives. In addition, extant research has not thoroughly examined factors or condi...

Recent years have been characterized by massive layoffs of IT workers – primarily triggered by declining corporate profitability and increased off-shoring of IT work. However, it is unclear whether IT worker downsizing has generated any economic returns or business performance improvements for IT firms. In this study, our primary objective is to investigate the financial performance impacts of ...