Managing the Workplace Survivors: Organizational Downsizing and the Commitment Gap

Managing the Workplace Survivors: Organizational Downsizing and the Commitment Gap is written for managers and other staff professionals who are charged with the responsibility of realigning the corporate culture and revitalizing survivor employees. The book helps managers and other organizational leaders understand the critical role they play in today's organization, and identifies specific strategies for increasing quality, productivity, and bottonm-line profitability among survivor employees. Organization leaders are challenged to construct dynamic strategies to empower, retain, and create incentive for the survivor employees, and to facilitate effective strategies to assure the entire organization's survival. The book is divided into two major parts: "Gaining a Perspective" and "Developing a Survivor Strategy." "Gaining a Perspective" places more emphasis on who the survivors are, where they come from, and what is happening to them. It introduces the Survivor Management Model, which outlines an approach used successfully by the authors to help companies recommit and realign their survivors. "Developing a Survivor Strategy" shifts more emphasis to recommendations about what to do with them. The Appendices are a "Manager's Toolkit" that contain several instruments and exercises that have proved effective in implementing the Survivor Management Model.Marvin R. Gottlieb is the author of 'Managing the Workplace Survivors: Organizational Downsizing and the Commitment Gap', published 1995 under ISBN 9780899309224 and ISBN 0899309224.