I blogged earlier about a case called The Layoff on the current Harvard Business Review, where I was one of the invited commentators. HBR has a weird system now where authors get to "give away" 25 PDF's of their articles. I downloaded two, although I did have some weird problems where it appeared on Notepad rather PDF. I thought the best thing to do was to simply offer the remaining 23 copies to readers of Work Matters. Here is the URL they sent:
http://custom.hbsp.com/b01/en/implicit/p.jhtml?login=SUTT022609S&pid=R0903A
Thanks!
Bob
tHANKS FOR THE FREE DOWNLOAD BOB
Posted by: Goutham | January 15, 2010 at 09:43 PM
Interesting and timely case, thank you! I think that often layoffs are used in place of performance management. In other words, we as managers need to be coaching and giving feedback to people on a regular basis and if there are people who do not perform as expected over time we must tell them and ask them to leave.
Many companies recently have instituted plant shutdown days, and pay cuts and other cost cutting measures. It also makes sense to cut whole teams if a project over all is canceled. I have seen this done recently as well when work was outsourced transition team employees were given extra time to find another position within the company. I think that this approach also can benefit the company strategically, as these folks are already known good performers and morale wise this is also more encouraging than layoffs.
thank you again for the chance to play!
Posted by: Margaret | March 03, 2009 at 05:53 AM
it's double-time weird, because I was able to save it as a pdf using the previous link you gave, not needing this one.
Posted by: Matthieu | March 01, 2009 at 01:06 PM
Thank you very much, Mr. Sutton!
Posted by: Sophie Lagacé | March 01, 2009 at 10:27 AM
Thanks for the free download, Bob.
Posted by: Krishna Kumar | February 28, 2009 at 07:39 PM
I enjoyed reading your thoughtful response, Bob. I found it interesting to see Jurgen Dormann's as well, since I was at ABB during his tenure and witnessed the change initiative he describes. Thanks for the free download!
Posted by: Karen | February 28, 2009 at 04:29 PM
Bob, thanks for your generosity.
Posted by: Kelley Eskridge | February 28, 2009 at 02:18 PM
Bob,
Thanks a lot for the free download. I'm one of those who will have to take layoff decisions soon and all the help to make them in a fair, appropriate and nondiscriminatory manner is unvaluable right now.
Posted by: PG | February 28, 2009 at 12:10 PM
Thanks!
Posted by: Jeff Roberts | February 28, 2009 at 11:33 AM