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Author: | Schmenner, R. Lackey, C. |
Title: | "Slash and burn" doesn't kill weeds: Other ways to downsize the manufacturing organization |
Journal: | Business Horizons
1994 : JUL-AUG, VOL. 37:4, p. 80-87 |
Index terms: | ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE ORGANIZATIONAL DECLINE ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE |
Language: | eng |
Abstract: | The story is familiar, not only in the United States but increasingly elsewhere in the world. Sales suffer, costs grow, profits are squeezed. Blue-collar workers have been laid off. Senior mangement, feeling itself backed up against a financial wall, takes what it considers to be strategic action, a wake-up call for the organization. Amidst often genuine angst, layoffs in the overhead ranks are announced. The hard decision to "slash and burn" has been taken. |
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