Essays Tagged: "downsizing"

Coping with Responsibility: How Reliable is Daycare? (with full-sentence outline and works cited)

viduals worry that using family-friendly policies may lead to the creased chance of lay-offs during downsizing.C.Many employees claim to be unaware of existing family-friendly policies.D.The role of h ... ny hours? Our text offers four ideas that may answer our question: need for money, vulnerability to downsizing, unawareness of the programs, and emotional issues.First, the best explanation for the la ...

(9 pages) 314 1 4.2 Mar/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

Work Stress, Effects of work stress on mental and physical health

1992 till present day, employees are stressed by their own job insecurities in the face of massive downsizing and restructuring of organizations in order to be competitive on the global stage. Work s ...

(12 pages) 1136 0 4.6 Nov/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

Social Services In Ontario

s. The programs that have been cut so far include: Eliminating photo radar, chopping welfare rates, downsizing of the public service through department amalgamation and program cuts, cutting some heal ...

(5 pages) 64 0 4.3 Jan/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Government

Corporate Downsizing in America

worked my ass off on this paper said he didnt know i had it in me....was impressed- INTRODUCTION -Downsizing, restructuring, rightsizing, even a term as obscure as census readjustment has been used ... 500 companies have eliminated 4.4 million positions since 1979 (Greenberg/Baron 627). Although this downsizing of companies can have many reasons behind it and cannot be avoided at times, there are si ...

(6 pages) 268 0 5.0 Dec/1996

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

Corporate downsizing in america

worked my ass off on this paper said he didnt know i had it in me....was impressed- INTRODUCTION -Downsizing, restructuring, rightsizing, even a term as obscure as census readjustment has been used ... 500 companies have eliminated 4.4 million positions since 1979 (Greenberg/Baron 627). Although this downsizing of companies can have many reasons behind it and cannot be avoided at times, there are si ...

(6 pages) 121 0 3.0 Feb/1997

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

Downsizing, Anatheme or Panacea?

Lots of Good Material & References A little weak on MLA documentation methodsDownsizing; Anathema or Downsizing; Anathema or PanaceaOver the past decade, corporations around the ... 6Digital Equipment 29,800 26Lockheed Martin 29,100 17BellSouth 21,200 23McDonnell Douglas 21,000 20'Downsizing', 'rightsizing' and 'restructuring' have been the popular buzzwords used to describe the ... of the market ('When layoffs alone don't turn the tide' International Business Week December 1992).Downsizing is also often a cover for mismanagement. AT&T Chief Executive Officer Robert Allen co ...

(15 pages) 203 0 4.3 Jun/1996

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

Managing human resources in a cross cultural context: A case study of South Africa

ors and those recently privatised enterprises which are in the process of refocusing as a result of downsizing and other major organizational change. It is likely that when western companies try to im ...

(18 pages) 602 0 4.4 Feb/2003

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies

Effects of Downsizing.

IntroductionDownsizing, Layoffs, Cutting the Flab or more rudely put "removing of dead log" are the buzzwords be ... third of all U.S. households has been laid off (New York Times, 1996). But what exactly we mean by "Downsizing". There has been very little research done on this subject (Cameron, 1994, p-183).Cameron ... anned reduction in company personnel (Allen et al., 1995; Cascio, 1993). From this angle, the term "downsizing" can be viewed as in parallel with layoffs (Hoskisson & Hitt, 1994). The broadly defi ...

(19 pages) 755 1 3.9 May/2003

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

Workplace stress.

e toll on any individual's health. Stress in the workplace can come from many different sources.The downsizing of organizations has caused a stressful environment. Downsizing has created concerns over ... zing has created concerns over job security, and has forced employees to take on a larger workload. Downsizing creates quantitative and qualitative stress. Quantitative stress pertains to doing the sa ...

(2 pages) 192 0 3.3 Aug/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Mental Health

Intro to Pyschology mid term. Work Related Stress -- what it is and to combat it.

nineties, and continuing today, employees are stressed by their own job insecurities in the face of downsizing and restructuring of corporations.Stress is a very broad topic ranging from research on t ...

(7 pages) 241 2 4.7 Sep/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

Operational Motivation Plan. This paper attempts to define the role of the manager, the role of the organization and the specific incentive elements of the plan.

oyees in the workplace is an ongoing area of concern to management. In an era of corporate buyouts, downsizing, and budget cuts motivating employees whose jobs have been radically changed or completel ...

(3 pages) 359 0 3.0 Oct/2003

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management > Management Planning & Decision Making

Downsizing the middle class.

Downsizing the Middle ClassIn the essay by Rhonda Burns, "Downsizing the Middle Class," there seems ... t the middle class from the rich. She says that companies that had created jobs in the past are now downsizing in order to gain more total revenue and do not care whom they destroy in the process. Ano ...

(7 pages) 103 0 4.3 Oct/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

What company needs today?

me amount of work that was previously expected of the larger work force. Thus, for the survivors of downsizing, work intensified" (Considine). For middle managers, the amount of work is increasing as ...

(4 pages) 62 0 5.0 Oct/2003

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Downsizing In America.

INTRODUCTIONDownsizing, restructuring, rightsizing, even a term as obscure as census readjustment has been used ... 500 companies have eliminated 4.4 million positions since 1979 (Greenberg/Baron 627). Although this downsizing of companies can have many reasons behind it and cannot be avoided at times, there are si ... make the process easier on the laid-off employees and those who survive with the company.STAGES OF DOWNSIZINGThe downsizing process can generally be broken down into three distinct stages. The first ...

(6 pages) 102 0 4.6 Nov/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community

Job Vacancy Advertisements

Company unities, downsizing and the challenges of a weakened economy are forcing many workers out of the office and i ...

(2 pages) 67 0 4.7 Apr/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

Expressing Emotions Appropriately: Effective Communication in the work place

in high stress environments. Aside from general responsibilities, this is further aggravated by the downsizing, restructuring, and multi-tasking that is occurring in many of today's businesses. The oc ...

(4 pages) 210 1 4.4 Apr/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management > Leadership and Communication

Outsourcing

to keep itself competitive, corporate restructuring has been necessary. As such, practices such as downsizing and outsourcing have become quite popular for the company. To this end, Johannes and Arms ...

(4 pages) 521 1 4.4 Apr/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Total Quality Management

The purpose of a TQM program is to amplify the effectiveness of the organization. During an age of downsizing and restructuring, many American companies are determining that they must learn to manage ... ization exists in an endless state of adapting to change. External competitive forces usually cause downsizing changes, whereas other changes to work operations emerge as a result of shifting forces w ...

(6 pages) 502 0 3.0 May/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Organisations do not have to fully utilise Empowerment to achieve successful results.

ieve successful results.Author Neil Cogdell20th April 2004SummaryAn issue facing organisations post downsizing and delayering is how to maintain successful operations with a reduction in staff. Empowe ... whilst also calculating the savings to be made by delayering, the removal of management layers, or downsizing and reducing personnel and operational activities.These changes, without job enlargement ...

(11 pages) 181 0 3.0 May/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

Work Stress

f 1992 till present day, employees arestressed by their own job insecurities in the face of massive downsizing andrestructuring of organizations in order to be competitive on the global stage.Work str ...

(11 pages) 232 0 3.8 Aug/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management