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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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‚ and fatter profits‚ American firms announced
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personal injury case. His wife Jane Smith accompanies him during your meeting because she has some additional tax planning advice to ask of you. ROLE: After reviewing John and Jane Smith’s points of view‚ it will be your turn as a tax professional to decide on the best course of action from a tax perspective on their issues. Prepare a three page memo (at least 900-1‚500 words per page) to John and Jane Smith addressing the issues presented. PLAYERS: JOHN SMITH ESQ. “I worked on this case for over two
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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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Disposal of Investment in Malone Limited Background of Investment in Malone • On 1 July 2011‚ Dyson purchased 80% of the shares on Malone for $ 800‚000. • On 30 June 2012‚ the land was revalued to $ 870‚000. • On 30 June 2012‚ Brennan owned 100% of Dyson‚ there has been changed to 60% of Dyson in the next year. • Dividend of $ 20‚000 was declared on 15 October 2012‚ and been paid on 15 November 2013. • On 31 October 2012‚ Dyson sold the entire interest for $1.1 million. • Partial goodwill
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DeviceCo and Pharmador formed a joint venture called LeaseMed. It plans to lease large-scale medical equipment to U.S. hospitals. The venturers have no relationship with each other aside from LeaaseMed. Ownership as well as profits and losses are divided 55:45 to DeviceCo and Pharmador. Board approval is required by a majority vote for all ongoing business activities and new contract in excess of $50‚000. 1.) Pharmador is only able to qualify for the business scope exception under ASC 810-10-15-17d
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Rd‚ Conwy‚ LL32 8EU United Kingdom | |Proposal for a Downsizing Programme [pic] TP4US | |Contents Page | 1 Introduction 3-4 1.1 Main Aims and Objectives 3 1.2 Competitive Enviroment 3 1.3 Company Profile 3-4 1.4 Downsizing Programme effects (Inc budget) 4 2 Recomendations 4-7
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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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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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Nectar: Making Loyalty Pay Case Study Background and Problem Definition Sainsbury’s is a medium-sized UK supermarket and gas station chain. It is also the largest participant of Nectar‚ UK’s most extensive rewards program. When Justin King took over as Sainsbury’s CEO in 2004‚ he was faced with the decision of whether Sainsbury’s participation in the Nectar loyalty program was worth its annual $120‚000‚000+ budget. King came over from ASDA‚ Sainsbury’s lower-cost competitor‚ where there was
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