Discusses qualities and techniques that will help you survive a company restructure. Includes advice on what to do if you lose your job.

Managing the Workplace Survivors: Organizational Downsizing and the Commitment Gap is written for managers and other staff professionals who are charged with the responsibility of realigning the corporate culture and revitalizing survivor employees. The book helps managers and other organizational leaders understand the critical role they play in today's organization, and identifies specific strategies for increasing quality, productivity, and bottonm-line profitability among survivor employees. Organization leaders are challenged to construct dynamic strategies to empower, retain, and create incentive for the survivor employees, and to facilitate effective strategies to assure the entire organization's survival. The book is divided into two major parts: Gaining a Perspective and Developing a Survivor Strategy. Gaining a Perspective places more emphasis on who the survivors are, where they come from, and what is happening to them. It introduces the Survivor Management Model, which outlines an approach used successfully by the authors to help companies recommit and realign their survivors. Developing a Survivor Strategy shifts more emphasis to recommendations about what to do with them. The Appendices are a Manager's Toolkit that contain several instruments and exercises that have proved effective in implementing the Survivor Management Model.

Downsized by Corporate America? Disillusioned with your career trajectory? Feel lost and don't know where to begin? Frustrated with your earnings and anxious about your future income potential? Welcome to the Zombieconomy. Corporate layoffs have infected millions. Survival is nearly impossible. But this book will lead you to safety. Follow the directions inside and you will survive. You are not alone. We are here and we are waiting for your arrival. Get laser-focused about where you want to go. Stand up to your situation with courage. Improve your mind and spirit with massive actions. Create your own roadmap to redemption.

Due to the increased levels of organizational efficiency, profitability, and competitiveness have produced major layoffs and redundancies, corporate downsizing has now become a strategy of choice for many corporations and governmental agencies. It is now

During the mid-1990s, 1 in 16 workers were displaced by downsizing, reorganization, or corporate mergers and acquisitions. Ruth Luban, a counselor who specializes in recovery from job loss, recognizes that leaving the workforce causes not only a loss of income, but also of identity, structure, and community. Her step-by-step program addresses these problems and explains how to work through them. Using case studies, exercises, and informative sidebars, she identifies the five emotional stages of job loss:* On the Brink * Letting Go * In the Wilderness * Seeing the Beacon * In the New Land Luban shows how to move through the emotional upheaval of job loss and return to the workforce with a sense of control and direction.