Determinants of Work Force Reduction Strategies in Declining Organizations
- 1 April 1988
- journal article
- Published by Academy of Management in Academy of Management Review
- Vol. 13 (2) , 241-254
- https://doi.org/10.5465/amr.1988.4306878
Abstract
Declining organizations frequently, sometimes necessarily, reduce their work forces. This paper introduces a hierarchy of work force reduction strategies and advances a series of propositions focusing on organizational and environmental variables that influence the managerial choice of work force reduction strategies.Keywords
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