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Book Industrial Restructuring with Job Security

Download or read book Industrial Restructuring with Job Security written by Susan N. Houseman and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers the period from 1974 to 1986. Includes as an appendix: Summary of work force reduction policies.

Book Responsible Restructuring

Download or read book Responsible Restructuring written by Wayne F Cascio and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2002-10-02 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Firms that restructure through downsizing are not more profitable than those that don't, and often end up hurting themselves in the long run. Responsible Restructuring draws on the results of an eighteen-year study of S&P 500 firms to prove that it makes good business sense to restructure responsibly-to avoid downsizing and instead regard employees as assets to be developed rather than costs to be cut. Wayne Cascio explodes thirteen common myths about downsizing, detailing its negative impact on profitability, productivity, quality, and on the morale, commitment, and even health of survivors. He uses real-life examples to illustrate successful approaches to responsible restructuring used by companies such as Charles Schwab, Compaq, Cisco, Motorola, Reflexite, and Southwest Airlines. And he offers specific, step-by-step advice on what to do-and what not to do-when developing and implementing a restructuring strategy that, unlike layoffs, leaves the organization stronger and better able to face the challenges ahead.

Book Guide to Responsible Restructuring

Download or read book Guide to Responsible Restructuring written by Wayne F. Cascio and published by U.S. Government Printing Office. This book was released on 1995 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on research about the effects of downsizing on firm performance, argues that large-scale redundancies produce little long- term cost gains, and that enterprise restructuring is a more efficient means of increasing competitiveness. Based on a survey of 25 large firms over a seven-year period from 1988.

Book Change at Work

Download or read book Change at Work written by Peter Cappelli and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1997-02-27 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A far-reaching transformation is taking place in the US in the relationship between employers and employees. The lessons learned from Japan and from "best practice" companies like IBM about how job security, training, and internal development can improve employee commitment and performance have given way to a new set of lessons about how companies can redue fixed costs, increase flexibility, and improve performance by eliminating the elaborate employment systems that prepared employees for long careers in the company. Where the old arrangement protected employees from outside market forces, the new ones drag the market right back in through downsizing, contingent workforces, hiring on the outside for new skills, and compensation contingent on overall organizational performance. New work systems that reengineer processes and empower employees "flatten" the organizational chart, cutting management jobs in particular and reducing opportunities for career development. The new arrangements shift many of the risks of business from the firm to the employees and make employees, rather than employers, responsible for developing their own skills and careers. They also increase the demands placed on workers while reducing what they receive back for their efforts. While morale is down and stress is up, employee performance seems to be rising largely because of fear driven by the shortage of good jobs. Change at Work explores the theme that employees have paid the price for the widespread restructuring of American firms as illustrated by reduced security, greater effort and hours, and reduced morale. In this important study--commissioned by the National Planning Asociation's Committee on New American Realities--the authors consider how individuals and employers need to adapt to the new arrangements as well as the implicatioons for important policy issues such as how skills will be developed where the attachment to the firms is sharply reduced. The future is uncertain, but the authors argue that the traditional relationship between employer and employee will continue to erode, making this work essential reading for managers concerned with the profound impact corporate restructuring has had on the lives of workers.

Book Employment Security in a Changing Workplace

Download or read book Employment Security in a Changing Workplace written by Edgar Weinberg and published by Pergamon. This book was released on 1984 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literature survey and report concerning the impact of technological change, foreign competition and industrial restructuring on employment security, with partic. Reference to USA experience - covers occupational change, reassignment, retraining, work sharing, guaranteed income, joint consultation, etc.

Book Responsible Restructuring

Download or read book Responsible Restructuring written by Wayne Cascio and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011-08-18 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using real - life illustrations of successful, responsible restructurings at companies such as Charles Schwab, Cisco, Motorola, and Intel, this book provides alternatives to downsizing....

Book Creating Economic Opportunities

Download or read book Creating Economic Opportunities written by International Institute for Labour Studies and published by Geneva : International Institute for Labour Studies. This book was released on 1994 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Change is a permanent feature of market economies. What is new in today's world is the pace, breadth and depth of economic change and the industrial restructuring that this entails. Over the past two decades, industrialized countries have witnessed a level of industrial restructuring which, in its scope and tempo, has probably been without historic precedent.[...] A central question has become whether labour standards impede necessary changes in economic units, industrial structures, and employment groth, as the well-established current of neoliberal thinking would maintain or whether, on the contrary, labour standards and the institutions through which they are delivered constitute viable channels for industrial innovation, economic dynamism, and sustainable development, as another school of academics, policymakers and practitioners would hold. The present volume directly addresses this debate and contains a number of contributions which lay out the arguments for and against labour standards in relation to economic performance [...] provides analyses of industrial restructuring at the firm, industry, regional, national and international levels, and includes detailed case studies of experiences in Germany, Sweden, France, Italy, the United States, Canada and Australia [...] develops conceptual perspectives on labour standards, provides comparative overviews of their impact, and trace the evolution of labour standard-setting at the level of the European Community and in the international economy.

Book Industrial restructuring and industrial relations in three US firms  Occupational Paper 5

Download or read book Industrial restructuring and industrial relations in three US firms Occupational Paper 5 written by Peter D. Sherer and published by International Labour Organization. This book was released on 1991 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Employment Practices and Industrial Restructuring

Download or read book Employment Practices and Industrial Restructuring written by Ramon C. Sevilla and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Industrial Restructuring and Industrial Relations in Canada and the United States

Download or read book Industrial Restructuring and Industrial Relations in Canada and the United States written by Noah M. Meltz and published by Kingston, Ont. : Industrial Relations Centre, Queen's University. This book was released on 1991 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Guide to Responsible Restructuring

Download or read book Guide to Responsible Restructuring written by DIANE Publishing Company and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1995-09 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does the strategy of restructuring & delayering really work? Does the cutting headcount benefit only companies & shareholders? This Guide looks at the downsides of downsizing; myths vs. facts. Includes: the Best Practices in Restructuring, which addresses how several American companies (Ford, Chase Manhattan, Eaton, United Airlines, NYNEX, Intel & others, created alternatives to downsizing. Provides Guidelines for Responsible Restructuring. Extensive references.

Book Restructuring Work and Employment in Europe

Download or read book Restructuring Work and Employment in Europe written by Sian Moore and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays offers a survey of restructuring processes in Europe and their outcomes. . . Given the likelihood of increased dislocation in labor markets, the book is a timely contribution. Recommended. R.L. Hogler, Choice This detailed, comprehensive study on downsizing in Europe is underpinned by cross-national, interdisciplinary empirical research on restructuring management in five European countries: Belgium, France, Germany, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. It contains systematic national comparative overviews, and transversal analyses of more than 30 in-depth case studies, taking into account a broad range of perspectives across professional human resources managers, unions representatives, local and national civil servants, social workers and physicians. The authors examine strategic choices and practices in national and local contexts, showing that the practice of restructuring is not as heterogeneous as many previous studies have indicated or predicted. Systematic policy proposals for better economic and social management of restructuring are also prescribed. This team of well-known economists and social scientists have prepared a book that will appeal to consultants and human resource managers and employees, especially in transnational firms, as well as to students in industrial relations, in labour economics, and in sociology. It will also be of special interest to members of the European Commission and policymakers involved in employment and social affairs.

Book Parties And Unions In The New Global Economy

Download or read book Parties And Unions In The New Global Economy written by Katrina Burgess and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2010-11-23 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For much of the twentieth century, unions played a vital role in shaping political regimes and economic development strategies, particularly in Latin America and Europe. However, their influence has waned as political parties with close ties to unions have adopted neoliberal reforms harmful to the interests of workers.What do unions do when confronted with this "loyalty dilemma"? Katrina Burgess compares events in three countries to determine the reasons for widely divergent responses on the part of labor leaders to remarkably similar challenges. She argues that the key to understanding why some labor leaders protest and some acquiesce lies essentially in two domains: the relative power of the party and the workers to punish them, and the party's capacity to act autonomously from its own government.

Book Employment Relations and HRM in South Korea

Download or read book Employment Relations and HRM in South Korea written by Dong-One Kim and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the era of economic stress and industry restructuring this book discusses the paradigm shift in both ER and HRM. Emphasizing the changing role of the state and labor, the recent erosion of the tradition system and search for a new mode of employment, the book provides policy implications that can stimulate constructive debates regarding the ’mutual-gains’ strategies for policy makers, management, and employees.

Book Monthly Labor Review

Download or read book Monthly Labor Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publishes in-depth articles on labor subjects, current labor statistics, information about current labor contracts, and book reviews.

Book After Lean Production

Download or read book After Lean Production written by Thomas A. Kochan and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Industrial relations experts from eleven countries consider the state of the automobile industry worldwide.