The Responsibilities and Behavioral Reactions of the Senior Management in Layoffs Events

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10.2991/ssemse-15.2015.88How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Downsizing; Senior Management; Responsibilities; Behavioral Reactions; Chinese Company

Abstract

As the decision makers and planners in downsizing, the senior management’s roles and behavior are the key factors to the downsizing effectiveness. We collected 120 layoffs events from January 2001 to January 2013 in China, with multiple case studies based on content analysis. Research shows that senior management emerged 15 kind of behavior modes come down to 5 kind responsibilities just as: downsizing strategy, implementation, communication, organizational reputation and employee morale. The prominent problems were: the violation credibility behavior was obvious; lack of clear roles orientation and behavior standard, the actual behavior of the senior management deviated from job responsibilities; the understanding for strategic intention of downsizing was not clear, the senior management’s strategic status and contribution in downsizing were not outstanding.

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© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Li-kun Wei
AU  - Wei-zheng Chen
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TI  - The Responsibilities and Behavioral Reactions of the Senior Management in Layoffs Events
BT  - Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Social Science, Education Management and Sports Education
PB  - Atlantis Press
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SN  - 2352-5398
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