Healing the Downsized Organization

By Delorese Ambrose

Book Overview

Healing the Downsized Organization is for managers and employees who must make sense of dramatically changed workplaces after reengineering, restructuring, or downsizing. Here are "best practices" from those who are successfully reinventing their organizations and re-creating healthy workplaces. Documented examples from executives, managers, and employees who have bounced back from this challenge reveal how they minimized pain during downsizing and discovered promising possibilities for changed employer-employee relationships. Dramatic profiles of four organizations--representing manufacturing, media journalism, education, and health care--provide lessons you can practice today, whether downsizing is unfolding now or whether it looms in the future. From interviews with CEOs, managers, and employees, you will understand how individuals at all levels have handled the tension between personal and organizational goals, managed the human struggles, and achieved victories as they cut costs and redeployed resources to face competition or changing market conditions. You will learn how these companies and individuals coped with downsizing, including: ???????? ? how "survivors" regained momentum, focus, and job satisfaction after downsizing ???????? ? what kinds of company-employee interactions allowed trust to be rebuilt ???????? ? how managers succeeded in balancing the concerns of those who left and those who stayed ???????? ? ways to be an effective leader in the transitional period ???????? ? approaches to forge a new employer-employee social contract for the emerging workplace Healing the Downsized Organization is the recovery book for the downsizing of America.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0517704994
• ISBN13: 9780517704998
• Release Date: December 1996
• Publisher: Harmony
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.3" x 1.0" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Healing the Downsized Organization

This book is a practical guide offering strategies and practices that help organizations, their leaders, and their employees recover from a layoff. Whether you are planning a layoff, in the middle of one, or dealing with the aftermath, the author provides a framework for addressing both the business side and the people side of the equation so that the organizational trust, resilience, and communication required to deliver on business goals on the other side of the layoff can be developed or restored. Relevant research, models, and case studies speak the questions and concerns of anyone charting a way through the turbulent waters of organizational change and preparing for the new world of work. After reading it, I had a better grasp of my own experience going through a downsizing as an employee. Delorese Ambrose offers real stuff for real people who want to know how to deal with a difficult situation as well as is possible. You would never know that the book was written more than 10 years ago--the principles and applications are just as valid in today as they were when the book was published. Get it! Read it! It is very helpful.