DOWNSIZING AND RIGHTSIZING Downsizing: The downward migrations of business applications are often from mainframes to PCs due to low costing of workstation. And also today’s workstations are as powerful as last decade’s mainframes. The result of that is Clients having power at the cost of less money‚ provides better performance and then system offers flexibility to make other purchase or to increase overall benefits. Rightsizing: Moves the Client/Server applications to the most appropriate server
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Journal of Management http://jom.sagepub.com/ Causes and Effects of Employee Downsizing: A Review and Synthesis Deepak K. Datta‚ James P. Guthrie‚ Dynah Basuil and Alankrita Pandey Journal of Management 2010 36: 281 DOI: 10.1177/0149206309346735 The online version of this article can be found at: http://jom.sagepub.com/content/36/1/281 Published by: http://www.sagepublications.com On behalf of: Southern Management Association Additional services and information for Journal of Management
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Factors and Downsizing Which two of the five HR factors listed by the authors of your course do you consider the most important for your organization? (Explain your organization and its nature of business briefly). Justify your choice‚ and discuss these two factors in detail. Assuming that the U.S. sub-prime crisis of the present day is now affecting the Asian economies and your organization is feeling the effects of slowing sales as well as rising raw materials cost. Downsizing is a real possibility
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maintaining high production. Downsizing History and Trends "By 1980‚ over 90 percent of the nation ’s work-force was counted as employees; a complete reversal from the early 1900 ’s when over 80 percent were self-employed.” (Atwood‚ Coke‚ Cooper & Loria‚ 1996) During the 80’s‚ with the introduction of newer technological changes this provided organizations with opportunities to substitute capital for labor or to restructure jobs in new ways. This was the start of downsizing practises in America.
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Effects of Downsizing on Employees Statement of Problem Downsizing is a major problem faced by employees during tough times of recession. Apart from the economic reasons‚ they also have severe psychological effects on the employees. This project is about comprehending the effects of cut backs on employees. Employees suffer from severe self-esteem issues‚ due to which it’s very hard for them to jump back into the same mental stableness. The structure of this study is to assess the effects of downsizing
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were expensive and underutilized. To become more competitive‚ companies made strategic decision to gradually lower their payroll numbers. (Anthony‚ Kacmar & Perrewe al‚ 2002:434) Downsizing has become a critical issue around the world. Downsizing and mass lay-offs are happening not only on US companies but also organizations in the entire industrial world. The number of organizations and jobs affected by downsizing has been staggering. In 1993‚ in an unending quest for lower costs‚ higher productivity
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CASE STUDY ”DOWNSIZING & BUSINESS REORGANISATION” 1. Why might downsizing fail to improve the economic position of a business? Downsizing is a deliberate organizational decision to reduce the workforce that is intended to improve organizational performance. The Companies do downsizing because of falling profits & they feels that if they break the business in to smaller units then company will be more flexible & efficient. They do downsizing to reduce cost & increase productivity
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Challenges of Downsizing 5 Images of Change 6 Pressures to Change 6 Market Decline Pressure 6 Fashion Pressures 7 Mandated Pressures 7 Result of Change 7 Conclusion 8 References 9 Abstract This paper explores the change that General Motors faced after the economic recession and credit crisis that began in 2007. This pushed GM to request assistance from the U.S. Treasury which resulted in the restructuring of their US operations. The start of this restructuring change involved downsizing GM’s operations
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Decision Making Case Study Introduction This case discusses Office Raymond Ripley who used force and carried out police pursuit against the new policy that has been introduced by the department that has prohibited pursuits in cases where there is no sign of violent felony crime and the public being put in danger or a situation that would justify the potential liability and danger. Central Issues The first central issue that could be found in this story is that Deputy Raymond “Racin’ Ray” Ripley
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Strategies – Downsizing Numerous amount of people once thought that downsizing is an indicator of organizational decline‚ instead it is now accepted as a legitimate restructuring strategy. Downsizing is known as reducing the number of employees in the company‚ sometimes it could be the number of operating business units (Ireland‚ Hoskisson and Hitt‚ 2009). As mentioned earlier‚ Hewlett Packard incorporates downsizing strategy for its corporate restructuring. HP Chief Executive Meg Whitman also mentioned
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