The Organization in Crisis Downsizing, Restructuring, and Privatization

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Pub. Date: 2000-10-19
Publisher(s): Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary

The Organization in Crisis brings together a team of leading international researchers and practitioners to examine key issues associated with organizational change and suggest how such changes can be better managed in the future.

Author Biography

Ronald J. Burke is Professor of Organizational Behaviour in the School of Business, York University, Toronto. The author of many books, he was founding editor of the Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences, and serves on the editorial board of several other journals. He previously held the Imperial Life Professorship in Organizational Behaviour and was a Senior Research Fellow at the National Centre for Management Research and Development.

Cary L. Cooper is BUPA Professor of Organizational Psychology and Health and Pro-Vice Chancellor at the Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST). He has written or edited over 80 books, and is co-editor of the Blackwell Encyclopedia of Management. Professor . Cooper is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society, Royal Society of Arts, Royal Society of Medicine, Royal Society of Health and of both the American and British Academy of Management.

Table of Contents

List of contributors
vii
Preface ix
Acknowledgments xiv
Part I: Impact of restructuring on employees and organizations 1(94)
The new organizational reality: transition and renewal
3(17)
Ronald J. Burke
Cary L. Cooper
The impact of organizational change on UK managers' perceptions of their working lives
20(24)
Les Worrall
Cary Cooper
Fiona Campbell
Impact of privatization in Portugal
44(14)
Rita Campos e Cunha
Comparing the downsizing experiences of three countries: a restructuring cycle?
58(20)
Craig R. Littler
Sickness absence and organizational downsizing
78(17)
Mika Kivimaki
Jussi Vahtera
Amanda Griffiths
Tom Cox
Louise Thomson
Part II: New research directions 95(70)
An empirical examination of a stress-based framework of survivor responses to downsizing
97(22)
Gretchen M. Spreitzer
Aneil K. Mishra
Gender and job insecurity
119(13)
Mina Westman
Ethical problems in downsizing
132(19)
Zehava Rosenblatt
Zachary Schaeffer
Total quality management during downsizing
151(14)
Marjorie Armstrong-Stassen
Part III: The new career reality 165(68)
The new employment contract: psychological implications of future work
167(21)
Paul R. Sparrow
Down but not out: career trajectories of middle-aged and older workers after downsizing
188(14)
Daniel C. Feldman
Organizational crisis and change: the new career contract at work
202(18)
John F. McCarthy
Douglas T. Hall
Eroding organizational social capital among US firms: the price of job instability
220(13)
Carrie R. Leana
Harry J. Van Buren III
Part IV: Renewal and revitalization: best practices 233(71)
Leading organizations through survivor sickness: a framework for the new millennium
235(16)
David Noer
Values-based management: a tool for managing change
251(18)
Todd D. Jick
Coping with mergers and acquisitions
269(15)
Susan Cartwright
Sarah-Louise Hudson
Organizational restructuring: identifying effective hospital downsizing processes
284(20)
Ronald J. Burke
Esther R. Greenglass
Index 304

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