Healing the Wounds: Overcoming the Traumas of Layoffs and Revitalizing Downsized Organizations
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DAVID M. NOER is vice president for training and education for the Center for Creative Leadership. He has consulted extensively both in the United States and abroad, and he is the author of Multinational People Management (1975), How to Beat the Employment Game (1975), and Jobkeeping (1976).
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THE SHATTERED COVENANT.
Forgotten Survivors: What Happens to Those Who Are Left Behind.
Changing Organizations and the End of Job Security.
THE SURVIVOR EXPERIENCE.
Learning from the Past: The Survivor Syndrome Across Time.
Speaking for Themselves: Layoff Survivor Stories.
Time Does Not Heal All Wounds: The Effects of Long-Term Survivor Sickness.
INTERVENTIONS FOR HEALTHY SURVIVAL.
A Four-Level Process for Handling Layoffs and Their Effects.
Level One: Manage the Layoff Processes.
Level Two: Facilitate the Necessary Grieving.
Level Three: Break the Codependency Chain and Empower People.
Level Four: Build a New Employment Relationship.
THE GREAT WAKE-UP CALL.
The Rebirth of Meaning and Direction: Leading the New Organization.
Life After Downsizing: Revitalizing Ourselves and Our Organizations.
Appendix A. The Survivor Groups.
Appendix B. The Human Resource Study.
Forgotten Survivors: What Happens to Those Who Are Left Behind.
Changing Organizations and the End of Job Security.
THE SURVIVOR EXPERIENCE.
Learning from the Past: The Survivor Syndrome Across Time.
Speaking for Themselves: Layoff Survivor Stories.
Time Does Not Heal All Wounds: The Effects of Long-Term Survivor Sickness.
INTERVENTIONS FOR HEALTHY SURVIVAL.
A Four-Level Process for Handling Layoffs and Their Effects.
Level One: Manage the Layoff Processes.
Level Two: Facilitate the Necessary Grieving.
Level Three: Break the Codependency Chain and Empower People.
Level Four: Build a New Employment Relationship.
THE GREAT WAKE-UP CALL.
The Rebirth of Meaning and Direction: Leading the New Organization.
Life After Downsizing: Revitalizing Ourselves and Our Organizations.
Appendix A. The Survivor Groups.
Appendix B. The Human Resource Study.
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"An outstanding study, a major contribution to business literature."
"Noer provides a model for handling layoffs and the after effects, and issues a wake-up call for building a new kind of corporate organization."
"David Noer has lived the lives and felt the feelings of America's riffed, downsized, and professionally dispossessed millions.... His book is nothing less than a survival manual for the next twenty years." (Peter Vaill, dean, School of Business and Management, George Washington University)
"Meets the challenge of addressing one of the toughest management issues of the 1990s'downsizing.'" (Marilyn Tam, CEO, Aveda Corporation)
"Noer convincingly points out that companies that go through layoffs to get lean and mean often wind up sad and angry instead. He offers various strategies for helping those who are sent away, and those who remain, to get on with their lives and remain productive."
"David Noer brings to the major workplace crisis of our time insight, compassion, and tough-mindedness. A survivor's manual for tough times!" (Marvin R. Weisbord, author of Productive Workplaces and Discovering Common Ground)
"Much-needed insights on. . . effectively managing downsizings while forging productive relationships with its surviving workers." (Joel Brockner, professor of management, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University)
"Noer provides a model for handling layoffs and the after effects, and issues a wake-up call for building a new kind of corporate organization."
"David Noer has lived the lives and felt the feelings of America's riffed, downsized, and professionally dispossessed millions.... His book is nothing less than a survival manual for the next twenty years." (Peter Vaill, dean, School of Business and Management, George Washington University)
"Meets the challenge of addressing one of the toughest management issues of the 1990s'downsizing.'" (Marilyn Tam, CEO, Aveda Corporation)
"Noer convincingly points out that companies that go through layoffs to get lean and mean often wind up sad and angry instead. He offers various strategies for helping those who are sent away, and those who remain, to get on with their lives and remain productive."
"David Noer brings to the major workplace crisis of our time insight, compassion, and tough-mindedness. A survivor's manual for tough times!" (Marvin R. Weisbord, author of Productive Workplaces and Discovering Common Ground)
"Much-needed insights on. . . effectively managing downsizings while forging productive relationships with its surviving workers." (Joel Brockner, professor of management, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University)
