The Responsibilities and Behavioral Reactions of the Senior Management in Layoffs Events

摘要

As the decision makers and planners in downsizing, the senior management's roles and behavior are the key factors to the downsizing effectiveness. We collected 120 layoffs events from January 2001 to January 2013 in China, with multiple case studies based on content analysis. Research shows that senior management emerged 15 kind of behavior modes come down to 5 kind responsibilities just as: downsizing strategy, implementation, communication, organizational reputation and employee morale. The prominent problems were: the violation credibility behavior was obvious; lack of clear roles orientation and behavior standard, the actual behavior of the senior management deviated from job responsibilities; the understanding for strategic intention of downsizing was not clear, the senior management's strategic status and contribution in downsizing were not outstanding.