In a downsizing, employees have to cope with major changes. Their coping strategy influences their level of adaptability. Coping proceeds through sensemaking, and may be either reactive or proactive. This paper reports a study on employees’ sensemaking of critical incidents in a multiple downsizing context. The organization studied, experienced two downsizings in one year. Its culture was based...

Stellar-population analyses of today’s galaxies show “downsizing”, where the stars in more massive galaxies tend to have formed earlier and over a shorter time span. We show that this phenomenon is not necessarily “anti-hierarchical” but rather has its natural roots in the bottom-up clustering process of dark-matter haloes. While the main progenitor does indeed show an opposite effect, the inte...

In today's healthcare environment, characterized by downsizing, restructuring, mergers, and acquisitions, organizational cultures and employees are experiencing rapid--and often tense--changes. Ritual can facilitate change by acknowledging it and allowing the grieving process to take its course. The success of an organizational culture change can depend on whether the organization and its membe...

The adoption of Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEVs) is widely seen as an interim solution for the decarbonization of the transport sector. Within a PHEV, determining the required energy storage capacity of the battery remains one of the primary concerns for vehicle manufacturers and system integrators. This fact is particularly pertinent since the battery constitutes the largest contributo...

BACKGROUND Few studies have examined depression as both a cause and effect of unemployment, but no prior work investigated these relationships in the context of organisational downsizing. We explored whether the exposure to downsizing is associated with subsequent depression (social causation), and whether pre-existing depression increases the risk of being laid off when organisations downsize ...

This paper attempts to study Alexander Payne’s Downsizing through a dystopian perspective in which it highlights the aspects of dystopia Downsizing. It discusses working government is oppressive and describing instances that signifies depicted as tyrannical. projects ways tries justify their deeds downsizing rivalries. chapter also analyses effects caused by technology facilitating destruction ...

One of the key trends in modern computing is the downsizing and distributing of applications and data. This paradigm shift is occurring because companies want to take advantage of modern micro-processor technology which allows them to benefit from the new styles of software which employ graphical user interfaces (GUI). Client/server and distributed database technologies are two fundamental enab...

Based on an integrated theoretical framework, we argue that socially responsible firms aspire to higher ethical and moral standards than other foster intrinsic motivation avoid downsizing. In line with this, develop hypotheses proposing a negative association of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) downsizing incidence severity. Using panel data U.S. over eight-year period, confirm these find ...