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Downsizing |
The action firms take to improve organizational performance in response to environmental changes through cost reduction, organizational restructuring and especially workforce reduction as the major approach |
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Responsible downsizing |
Core concept of a caring firm that provides long-term payoff and treate employees as long-term assets by responsibly dealing with downsizing |
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Central connectors |
Individuals with central network positions; have the greatest access to and control over resources in the network |
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Brokers |
Individuals who integrate important sub-groups in an organization in ways that central people sometimes do not |
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Gatekeepers |
Those key individuals who are strongly connected to both internal colleagues and external sources of information and who possess the ability to translate between the two systems |
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Psychological contract |
An individual's beliefs in mutual obligations between that person and another party |
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Three components of resistance to change |
Affective, behavioral and cognitive component |
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Self-regulation theory |
Employees compare the behavior of the organization with their own ideas about the behaviors that are implied in the PC, and there will be corrective action to significant discrepancies |
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Shared vision |
Mutual understanding of the aspirations and goals held among members of a team, unit, or organization that guide choice and action |
