westwood

Managers are the important person in every organization in dealing and communicate with the employees. The main problem of the firm is how to effectively communicate a Voluntary Severance and Early Retirement Program for senior managers approaching 60 years old without having a negative impact on the employees. As we can see in the case study, Linda Bosworth (CEO of Westwood Publishing avoided making these types of deals while the other companies already underwent merger and acquisition deals. Obviously, there are no other ways but to lay off some of Westwood’s senior managers. But, if Bosworth had received and studied some of the merger and acquisition deals before, maybe she would be able to save some of her employees’ jobs.
Apart from that, the main things of the Voluntary Severance and Early Retirement Program are to keep the business growing up and enhance a more corporate look in competing with other firms. Although the fact is most of the senior managers in their middle age of 50 are the most experienced managers before, nowadays, business world prefer young professional managers to take part in the trade of publication firm as their mind are more into modern world as well as considering that it is the nature of any business. The Voluntary Severance and Early Retirement Program criterion for the nominees is a vice president approaching 60 years of age, and a director who had received less than excellent performance appraisals for two consecutive years. Moreover, although both of these programs were called voluntary, those candidates whom were identified and weak in work were urged to agree as soon as possible.
Due to a new policy issue that the management needs to face, the impact of the changes should be addressed effectively by the Director of Employee Relations (Dan Cassidy) to avoid negative impact on the firm of human resources. The turn down may affect the good and productivity of the firm as well as increase the rate in employee turnover. Hence,