A Meta-Analytic Study of Downsizing: Behaviors and Attitudes Prevalent Among Supervisors
Abstract
Current research into the effect of downsizing, restructuring, and force reduction on employees has approached the issue many possible vantage points; it has focused on the victims, the survivors, and sometimes both. Researchers in management science and psychology explain responses we can expect from survivors of such a corporate upheaval. These effects are of particular interest to supervisors, because they will inevitably face a workforce, at least partially staffed with such survivors. To clarify possible attitudes and behaviors in tomorrow's work environment, our study tied together, through meta- analysis, results of studies on survivors of a downsized organization. The completed analysis enables managers to preview (in the aggregate sense) a certain set of downsizing survivor responses. A questionnaire was used to gather added data on survivors' reactions to and feelings about their organization. The results were incorporated into the meta-analysis statistics, and credibility intervals established. This interval will serve to identify the true population correlations for the variable relationships presented in the current research literature. Downsizing, Reduction in Force, RIF, Restructuring, Layoffs, Meta- Analysis
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 01, 1994
- Accession Number
- ADA285031
Entities
People
- Carmine F. Vilardi
- Donald A. O'hare
Organizations
- Air Force Institute of Technology