Corporate Executions: The Ugly Truth About Layoffs -- How Corporate Greed Is Shattering Our Lives, Companies, and Communities
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| Rating | : | 4.18 (633 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0814403077 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-04-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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The book also: provides dozens of examples of companies that are worse off after a mass layoff; examines the "anatomy of a layoff" in detail; reveals the "culture of corporate narcissism" that has caused the downsizing mania, that is, the fervently-held belief that any action is acceptable, as long as it's legal and makes money; and supplies personal stories of both victims and survivors, and features the real story of a particular high-performer and her struggle as a result of downsizing. Finally, the book presents ways to battle the downsizing epidemic, with: positive strategies for how to avoid lay
. From Publishers Weekly Drawing on his experiences as a human-resources consultant, Downs here analyzes the current "fashionably strategic" big-business practice: mass firings of employees by companies in a "culture of corporate narcissism" seeking lower costs and higher profits. If, as Downs claims, workers stand to gain enormously under such an arrangement, he fails to show how. Downs asserts that the average workplace today has become less satisfying, with lower pay and fewer fringe benefits. Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. He discusses how layoffs devastate employees' lives, impair "survivor" morale and productivity and adversely affect customer relations?without improving materially the firing company's prospects, he maintains. Under this new social contract, corporations would no longe
Top-down Management Fails Again!! Dr. Dudley Sykes The author of this book, Dr. Alan Downs, performed corporate downsizings for years and now explains they seldom attain the goals a company wanted. Dr. Downs explains that, contrary to what we read, life in the workplace is deteriorating for nearly everyone. He explains that greed is the driving force behind company lay-offs and it must be checked. He advocates a new "social contract" between companies and employees. America's businesses must begin to understand that they are often responsible for the tension in our society that invites the rampant drug use. Top-down, authoritarian, do-it-my way management defies. "Alan Downs demystifies downsizing" according to A Customer. Alan Downs knows whereof he speaks when he details the rationale, strategies, and methodology of corporate downsizing in the 90's. His spellbinding expose is written from the standpoint of a converted "corporate reconstructionist," and he pulls no punches. He takes you behind the scenes, into boardrooms, managerial conferences, and strategy meetings, in which employees are little more than pieces of play on a game board, manipulated by corporate henchmen in an attempt to drain every last drop of profit from an undervalued workforce.Mr. Downs' insightful, caring treatment of the workers' modern day employment dil