When struggling companies decide to offload a significant number of the workforce, the bad times are not necessarily over for the people left behind. Negative emotions can include confusion, insecurity and anxiety as “survivors” worry about such issues as increased workload and long‐term...

Purpose – Describes a groundbreaking approach to career management and outplacement adopted by Prudential UK and Fairplace when a new strategy meant that up to 20 percent of the Prudential UK workforce would be laid off or redeployed over two years. Design/methodology/approach – Uses...

Purpose – Analyses the effects on human‐resource management of the privatization of the Czech Republic's former state‐owned telecommunication monopoly, Cesky Telecom. Design/methodology/approach – A review of an article based on a research that used a qualitative approach that supported...