The Organization in Crisis Downsizing,

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.

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.

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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The Organization in Crisis Downsizing, Restructuring, and Privatization

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