Managing Growth and Downsizing
View the Layoff Reports for Northeastern Region of America - Human Resource Management in particular - and discuss issues relating to growth and downsizing in general, with emphasis on:
1) the patterns that you see emerging from the Layoff Report
2) the emerging issuses in this area -- how the problem will be seen in the coming years
3) what role of HR managers can and should be in effectively transitioning organization size up or down
4) overall principles for change management that you deduce from this discussion