Homework: Employee Layoff
Scenario
Imagine that you are an office manager tasked with coordinating and leading the dismissal meeting for an organizational layoff.
Instructions
Write a 6 to 8 pages paper in which you:
1. Propose three ways, proven to be effective, that a manager can cope with negative emotions that accompany an organizational layoff.
2. Describe a detailed, step-by-step process for conducting a dismissal meeting.
3. Determine fair and equitable compensation, with justification, that the company may provide to the separated employee.
4. Create a chart depicting a fair and equitable timeline for disbursement of the compensation.
a. Use Microsoft Word or an equivalent application, such as OpenOffice.
5. Predict three ways an organizational layoff can affect a company's future strategic direction.
6. Support your propositions, assertions, arguments, or conclusions with at least three credible, relevant, and appropriate sources synthesized in a coherent analysis.
Format your homework according to the give formatting requirements:
1. The answer must be double spaced, typed, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the homework, the course title, the student's name, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also include a reference page. The references and Citations should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.
The specific course learning outcome associated with this homework is:
1. Formulate strategies for an employee layoff, including heading the dismissal meeting, compensation for separated employees and predicting business effects of the layoff.