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Considered to be one of the first academic novels, it concerns the sequence of events that take place after Henry Mulcahy, a literary instructor at the fictive Jocelyn College, learns that his teaching appointment will not be renewed.

In this film, human resources consultant Peter Wallbridge discusses how to manage the challenges and sensitivities of an organizational restructuring. He explains how to communicate with staff about reorganization, policy options for moving people into new roles, laying people off, and providing for voluntary resignation.

Clarifies legal regulations and offers advice on re-evaluating hiring, firing, and workplace policies, including sexual harassment, violence prevention, and record keeping.

In this film, RealChange CEO Sadhana Smiles provides advice on dealing with problem employees. The right approach begins with understanding the employee's position and requires both sides to make changes and often resolves the problem. Failing this, going through the process allows the employer to justify firing the person. Smiles discusses how to communicate at every step of the process.

"What are the lingering effects of layoffs? How can managers keep business on track while initiating healing? David Noer has studied the effects of layoffs on survivors and the organizations that employ them. In this pioneering book he tackles what may be the most complex organizational issue since the industrial revolution: the fundamental and irrevocable shift in the psychological contract between employee and organization." "Based on case studies...

Human resources consultant Peter Wallbridge discusses how to manage layoffs. He discusses genuine redundancies versus redundancies as an excuse to fire someone. He recommends flexible employment contracts. The human resources director should be objective and factual in laying someone off, and not assume the person should react a certain way. Wallbridge discusses how to balance the company's and the worker's priorities.

Roberta Johnson explores when and how---and to what effect---people make the choice to blow the whistle. Johnson (politics, U. of San Francisco) reviews the phenomena of organizational and government whistle blowing in the United States, exploring its causes and effects. Utilizing a number of case examples to illustrate the material, she examines the motivational factors behind whistle blowing, the conditions necessary for whistle blowing to result...

An account of layoffs in America, their questionable necessity, their overuse, and their devastating impact on individuals at all income levels. Economics journalist Uchitelle explains how, in the mid-1970s, the first major layoffs, a limited response to the inroads of foreign competition, spread and multiplied, in time destroying the notion of job security and the dignity of work. The author traces the rise of job security in the United States to...