Higher education has been faced with some of the same problems that have triggered widescale lay‐offs in industry. This article is an account of how one university engaged in organisational development interventions to retrain and reassign 58 dislocated faculty members and set up a humane...

Current market forces, technological change, acquisition and merger mania, and the approach of 1992 and the European free market, are all imposing accelerating enforced career changes at a rate few top managers have experienced. There is thus a growing need for self‐assessment programmes to...