HRM 3430 Lecture Notes - Interactional Justice, Psychological Contract, Job Analysis
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Strategies to improve an organization"s efficiency by reducing the workforce, redesigning the work, or changing the systems of the organization. Sign of a sick relationship within the organization between management and employees. An employee remaining with an organization after a downsizing. They are worried about the people who did not survive the downsizing. Cameron identifies three types of downsizing strategies: workforce reduction must happen. A short-term strategy to cut the number of employees through attrition, early retirement or voluntary severance packages, and layoffs or terminations: work redesign strategic change in the work organization. A medium-term strategy in which organization focus on work processes and assess whether specific functions, products and/or services should be changed or eliminated: systematic change. Business downturn or increased pressure from competitors. Merging with another organization, resulting in duplication of efforts. Dead man"s curve yearly cycle of letting go of the bottom 3% - jack welsh.