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301-14 2/10/2011 Case 7.1 Westwood Publishing Prewrite: • Westwood Publishing is a magazine publishing company. • Dan Cassidy is director of employee relations for Westwood Publishing. • Catherine Callahan is the vice president of human resources. • Catherine Callahan proposed that with the layoffs‚ offer a voluntary severance package or early retirement package. • Westwood Publishing had never laid off anyone in the 13 years of their existence.
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unionized‚ decisions of sacking can be founded on the performance of the employees. This permits the organization to maintain the top performers through getting rid of the weakest. Because of its lawful risks‚ organizations avoid using performance as a layoff basis. In the case of D-Bart‚ the performance appraisals are inaccurate hence not supposed to use the method as a reduction basis. Howell should in the future recommend performing quarterly performance appraisals to make sure that the managers from
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in an unending quest for lower costs‚ higher productivity‚ and fatter profits‚ American firms announced 615‚000 jobs cut‚ and all-time record. Many of these actions reached into the ranks of white-collar and middle management positions. Earlier‚ layoffs were generally limited to low-level‚ unskilled‚ or blue-collar labour. (Hitt et. al.‚ 1994) (Internet Material #1) Making staff redundant is still a process many companies are forced to go through even in times of economic stability and modest growth
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Petrie back to work? The Glass Department consisted of five employees‚ on March 20‚ 1997 the company laid off Ronald Petrie leaving four employees to work the department. On April 3‚ 1997 an employee retired now leaving only three people to work the department. After laying-off an employee and one employee retiring the company began transferring employees from different departments as well as having the department employees work overtime. Union Position The union’s position is the company violated
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4-5 2.2 Business Analysis 5 2.3 Employees Selection 5 2.4 Recruitment Freeze 5 2.5 Early Retirement 6 2.6 Distribution Contract 6 2.7 Job Design (Process‚ Pay and Benefits) 6 2.8 Redundancy 6-7 2.9 Employee Support (Including Redundant Employees) 7 3 Evaluation 8 3.1 Structure 8 3.2 Transition 8 3.3 Company Image 8 |Chapter |Introduction
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Assignment 2 Nicole Lee 038236154 HRM822 Peter MacKellar May 11‚ 2015 1. In 1982 it seems the company will have to downsize. What are the factors that are forcing the company to make that decision? (10 marks) Downsizing is a strategy to improve an organization’s efficiency by reducing the workforce or changing and restructuring the systems of the organization (Belcourt & McBey‚ p. 260). There are multiple factors that are forcing Stonewall Industries to make the ultimate decision to downsize
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helping them to find alternative employment or training opportunities elsewhere (Leopold‚ 2009). In order to avoid redundancies and mintage the negative of redundancies‚ high commitment workplaces prefer to option less harsh methods such as voluntary layoff instead of compulsory redundancy (Iverson‚ 2005). Although most of the services companies tend to adopt a high commitment approach for maintaining the most valuable assets of companies‚ employees also become primary costs that employers need to
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feel working for a company everyday and not enjoying your job. The main character talks about how working at Initech is the worst day of his life and that the next day is worker that the day before. It also shows us what can happen when you push an employee to the end. Initech brings in efficiency experts that hardly know what they are doing besides laying off people and promoting those who don’t care about their jobs. The movies main focus is around Initech‚ but also shows us another company that needs
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remarkable for me. In my own opinion‚ they have done exemplary job in dealing with downsizing. They have created a good way of communicating to its employees. It tried to utilize every medium possible to disseminate information regarding the upcoming layoff of employees. Agilent Technologies used an open style of communication in their office to make the employees aware of what is bound to happen. The company used emails‚ meetings‚ and other media. The use of such enable them to think of possible ways
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