remarkable for me. In my own opinion‚ they have done exemplary job in dealing with downsizing. They have created a good way of communicating to its employees. It tried to utilize every medium possible to disseminate information regarding the upcoming layoff of employees. Agilent Technologies used an open style of communication in their office to make the employees aware of what is bound to happen. The company used emails‚ meetings‚ and other media. The use of such enable them to think of possible ways
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Re-organization and Layoff: Decision Making Evaluation Paper Bioncca Henderson‚ Carla Slaton‚ Johanna Arellano‚ Kellie Barto‚ Suenika Sykes PHL/320 January 30‚ 2015 Scott Phillips Re-organization and Layoff: Decision Making Evaluation Paper Management has many changes they adjust to daily. Some of the changes come from firing and lay-off employees. When these changes do take place they can change how the organization develops. Management will have to
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HR STRATEGIES THAT CAN TAKE THE STING OUT OF DOWNSIZING-RELATED LAYOFFS by Franco Gandolfi Strategy | July / August 2008 Share on emailEmail Share on twitterShare on Twitter Share on facebookPost to Facebook Share on linkedinShare on LinkedIn Share on deliciousSave to Delicious Share on instapaperSave to Instapaper While the pain of downsizing-related layoffs can’t be avoided entirely‚ it can be mitigated. Anticipating the duration and depth of an industry downturn‚ for example‚ can definitely
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(HR Planning) Employee Layoffs at Sta. Filomena District Hospital (adapted with revisions for class purposes) St. Felomina District Hospital is a medium-sized‚ 500-bed hospital in the Province of Agusan. It was established in 1968. The facility has grown gradually over the years and is now the largest hospital in the province. It has never experienced an employee lay-off since its inception. Dr. Mides Ignacia has been the Hospital Director 15 years. She hired Tess Bernales as Director of Human Resources
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(Mishra et al.‚ 1998). The term "downsizing" was coined to describe the action of dismissing a large portion of a company ’s workforce in a very short period of time. According to online encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org downsizing refers to "layoffs initiated by a company in order to cut labor costs by reducing the size of the company." Downsizing became a familiar management mantra in the late 1980 ’s and early 1990 ’s. In fact‚ three million jobs were lost between 1989 and 1998 (Mishra et
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The WARN Act Application in a Case Study The purpose of the WARN act and its pros and cons The WARN Act is a law that formulated to cater for mass layoffs of employees. This law will provide a protective shield to various employees and their individual families by notification to the employees before the closure of the plants they are working in within a 60 day period (Ford et al‚ 2000). This law majorly applies to companies with a high number of employees and in this case the company that is about
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they were being affected by this last measure and was going to have to take steps to ensure that the Company is not affected. I am the senior manager in human resources department and was given the task of having to choose three of six employees for layoffs. As responsible leaders and managers have the task and responsibility to evaluate them in a fair and equitable way for all parties. The Company had a record of the human resources department as these six employees had performed their work for the
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yet another case that proves to have many critical factors. We are dealing with a company that is downsizing‚ which may cause employee concerns. They are facing the need to make a decision on how to make the appropriate selection of employees to layoff‚ without facing Title VII discrimination violations‚ and they obviously have an issue that needs to be addressed with how the company is currently handling employee evaluations and appraisals. The most critical issue here is how to determine the
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Cat is out of the bag: KANA and Layoff Gone Awry(A) 1) Who are the key constituents in this case and identify each of their interests? The key constituents in this case are in the table below: Constituents Vicki (VP of Int. and HR) and Bryan Kettle (CFO) Chuck Bay (CEO) and Tom Doyle (COO) Customers Terminated employees and unions Survivor employees Managers The investment Community HRManagement Interests making the layoff process go as smoothly and transparently for the business
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Cox - member of Astrigo PR team‚ handling the Internal communication Sushil Bhatia – Vice President of marketing and strategy. 3. Course of Action The worldwide economy is currently recovering from the global economic crisis. A crisis that “layoff” employees of the different company. Mostly affected is the United States of America. Lay-Off means - When a company eliminates jobs regardless of how good the employees’ performance. This is usually because the company is facing financial difficulties
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