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Product Description: Reductions in Force in Employment Law, Second Edition, provides a comprehensive understanding of the key employment and employee benefit considerations that arise in a reduction in force. The material in this soup-to-nuts volume is presented in logical order, from the preliminary issues that arise when planning a workforce reduction, to its implementation, and to the issues arising in its wake...read more

Product Description: The federal government has bitten off more medical, social and retirement programs than it can chew and will be in fiscal hot water before long. This book attempts to accomplish three things: Besides suggesting a way to cope with the federal government's enormous financial obligations and ways to improve the producer/eater ratio, it also outlines a way for ordinary American people to nominate and elect government officials who will be more responsive to people than they are today...read more

Places the new economy workplace in a context of industrial history, reporting on how the model of a humane work environment compares to other labor utopias.

Product Description: The main focus of downsizing has shifted from the private to the public sector. The cutbacks began in the Department of Defense. Now the goal is a federal civilian workforce reduction of 12 percent by the year 2000.This pioneering study looks at the management of workforce reductions in the public sector both in theory and in practice...read more

Argues for a move away from single-issue activism to an economic restructuring to benefit all groups

Product Description: First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Extensive interviews with survivors reveal what it takes to retain the competence, commitment, and connection of this highly valued but often overlooked group. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Corporate philanthropy is at a crossroads, moving from a focus on "doing the right thing" for the community to one that emphasizes the bottom line of the corporation. This new corporate landscape presents some important challenges for the nonprofit sector...read more

Product Description: This book will help you cope with the emotional and spiritual effects of job loss. Stephen Adams helps you get from past career to next career. He provides tools to help you construct your personal mission statement and much more.

Product Description: Book by Lipsig, Ethan, Dollarhide, Mary C. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Relates the findings of a six-month study by a team of 'New York Times' reporters, designed to understand the impact of downsizing over the past twenty years on individuals, families, workplaces, communities, and politics