The Organization in Crisis: Downsizing, Restructuring, and Privatization

List of contributors.

Part I: Impact of Restructuring on Employees and Organizations:.

1. The new organizational reality: transition and renewal: Ronald J. Burke and Cary L. Cooper.

2. The impact of organizational change on UK managers' perceptions of their working lives: Les Worrall, Cary Cooper and Fiona Campbell.

3. Impact on privatization in Portugal: Rita Campos e Cunha.

4. Comparing the downsizing experiences of three countries: a restructuring cycle?: Craig Littler.

5. Sickness absence and organizational downsizing: Mika Kivimaki, Jussi Vahtera, Amanda Griffiths, Tom Cox and Louise Thomson.

Part II: New research Directions:.

6. An empirical examination of a stress-based framework of survivor responses to downsizing: Gretchen M. Spreitzer and Aneil K. Mishra.

7. Gender and job insecurity: Mina Westman.

8. Ethical problems in downsizing: Zehava Rosenblatt and Zachary Schaeffer.

9. Total quality management during downsizing: Marjorie Armstrong-Stasssen.

Part III: The new career reality:.

10. The new employment contract: psychological implications of future work: Paul Sparrow.

11. Down but not out: career trajectories of middle-aged and older workers after downsizing: Daniel C. Feldman.

12. Organizational crisis and change: the new career contract at work: John F. McCarthy and Douglas T. Hall.

13. Eroding organizational social capital among US firms: the price of job instability: Carrie R. Leana and Harry J. Van Buren III.

Part IV: Renewal and Revitalization: Best Practices:.

14. Leading organizations through survivor sickness: a framework for the new millennium: David Noer.

15. Value-based management: a tool for managing change: Todd D. Jick.

16. Coping with mergers and acquisitions: Susan Cartwright and Sarah-Louise Hudson.

17. Organizational restructuring: identifying effective hospital downsizing processes: Ronald J. Burke and Esther R. Greenglass.

Index.