March 2022
Intermediate to advanced
384 pages
7h 45m
English
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3 The negative impact of redundancies on the workforce
This chapter is an extension of the previous chapter that discussed the challenge of achieving organisational success by way of redundancies and the overall negative impact on the whole organisation. In this chapter, I highlight the severe negative impact of implementing redundancies on each of the three groups impacted: victims, survivors and redundancy envoys and introduce a new group: semi-survivors. The importance of redundancy envoys in the success of redundancy implementation is also discussed.
Impacted groups in the organisation
During the implementation of a redundancy programme, the entire workforce is impacted, whether the individual exits the organisation ...