Phl 320 Reorganization and Layoff

Ashley J. Bradford

Re-organization and Layoff: Issue and Problem Identification

Learning Team A

PHL/320

15 November 2015

Dr. Anthony Bennet

Re-Organization and Layoff: Issue and Problem Identification Paper

        Terminations, downsizing, layoffs and re-positioning within a company; no matter how you dress it up, title or method of chose you choose to use is hard on the affected employee’s and they colleagues that they worked with on a day-to-day basis. Company’s management have to a very tough and difficult decisions in order to look out for the vast interest and wellbeing of the productive of the company. I think a couple of good questions to ask yourself as management is what is the most effective way to deliver the bad news and still make it as good as possible? How much of the bad news really matters?

Issues and Problems

I think in summary of the article based off the author is that terminations and layoffs are not handled in the right manner. The argument of the article is clearly subjective coming from the opinion of the author. The author makes some very good and pertinent points, but in my opinion his argument is just focusing on just one aspect rather than at the issue as a whole. As the author pointed out, management and leadership’s approach is very important but in the grand scheme of things I believe it is not as important as a pivotal point as he made it. No matter how you deliver the message, people are going to react the way they chose to at that moment.

I think that the issue with the article is it is seriously one-sided and lack of an extensive argument to support it in its entirety. Putting the blame on companies for not looking for other alternatives to layoffs and terminations, and the method of delivery can be damaging in my opinion fails to shore up the larger problem of unemployment and preparing the employees for unemployment.

This is an underlying problem because had the company been crystal clear in the beginning and kept employees aware of developments both good or bad they would have had an opportunity to make choices for themselves by seeking other employment, adjusting living expenses, etc.