Leadership
Your assignment as mid-level leaders in a large company is to develop a list of workers to lay off for purposes of company downsizing. The CEO says that she wants you to develop a list of fifty employees to lay off. She says that the more money you save the company, the better, but that you should still pay some attention to retaining high-producing workers. As you and your team start poring over employee salaries, you notice that the older employees are often the most highly paid because they have received salary increases for many years. These high-paid workers are a mix of outstanding average, and below-average performers based on the results of performance evaluations. You also notice that some of the younger employees who are not necessarily outstanding performers are relatively low paid.
Your job is to develop criteria for choosing fifty employees to lay off, taking into account both financial and ethical factors. You want to practice ethically and socially responsible leadership, but you also want the lay off to save the company a lot of money, thereby keeping your CEO happy.
Write half or one page about how to lay off 50 employees and what kind of employees you want to lay off?