Exam 10: Downsizing and Restructuring

Refer to Scenario: ConocoPhillips.Which of the following is a short-term cost adjustment that ConocoPhillips is implementing to reduce costs?

What should union officials and management protect when anticipating potential downsizing and restructuring?

Refer to Scenario: ConocoPhillips.ConocoPhillips is NOT taking a career management approach that would be aimed at absorbing displaced workers into other divisions of the organization? What is ConocoPhillips NOT doing?

Discuss whether employees will quit their job if an organization downsizes.Does investment in human resources management practices affect whether employees will quit or stay when an organization downsizes?

According to your textbookbook,what is the main goal to be achieved if an organization is downsizing and restructuring with a systematic change strategy?

What is an essential component that is necessary for senior management prior to developing a downsizing strategy?

According to your textbookbook,what is the least common benefit provided to displaced workers?

According to Pfeffer,which of the following happens first when a layoff is announced?

Inplacement provides a program of counselling and job search assistance for workers who have been terminated.

A workforce reduction strategy is to cut the number of employees through layoffs and terminations.

Downsizing is a set of activities undertaken to improve organizational efficiency,productivity,and/or competitiveness that affect the size of the firm's workforce,its costs,and its work processes.

Many organizations are reactive to downsizing instead of proactive.

Distributive justice refers to the rules used to determine which employees will be downsized.

According to a poll of almost 7,000 employees discussed in your textbook,what personal strategy would the majority of individuals implement if they heard that their company was planning layoffs?

Jobs are being dramatically altered due to several factors such as artificial intelligence and computerization.Discuss two important factors resulting from the intelligence resolution shaping the future of work.

Which of the following terms best defines an unwritten commitment between employers and their employees that historically guaranteed job security and rewards for loyal service?

Perceptions of fairness and equity play a key role in understanding how survivors react to a downsizing.What type of justice is associated with the fairness of a downsizing decision?

Which of the following terms best defines the fairness of the downsizing decision?

A number of studies have pointed out downsizing strategies and practices that do not work.Discuss two best practices that may reduce the negative impact of downsizing. OR?Discuss one effective and one ineffective HR downsizing approach.

Employees who face challenges adapting to major change are more likely to engage in unethical behaviour in the workplace