Downsizing the Company Without Downsizing Morale

Update:
Our coauthor and good friend Professor Gretchen Spreitzer of the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business was recently interviewed about our article, elaborating on our key findings, and you can listen to the interview here.
Our article on how to improve organizational flexibility, innovation, and internal communication to improve trust during downsizing was just published [...]

Redeploy Your Employees Rather than Lay Them Off

All too often, companies resort to layoffs instead of trying other approaches to reducing costs and improving the bottom line during periods of economic retrenchment.  The Boston Globe recently interviewed me about redeploying employees within an organization as a way to reduce costs yet still preserve the human capital  that they’ve invested in.  Here’s an [...]

Cutting Costs without Cutting People — Rhino Foods Does it Right!

Ted Castle and Rhino Foods were profiled in the latest issue of Business Week for being able to reduce costs without resorting to layoffs, not an easy accomplishment as demonstrated by the hundreds of thousands of layoffs by scores of firms around the U.S. and around the world over the past several weeks.
As Matthew Boyle [...]