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Outplacement: what is the alternative?
Who as an employer or manager in the past has offered traditional outplacement programs to separating staff only to feel stung with the associated high costs?
Let’s first examine why post employment support entered into the equation when wide spread redundancies came into effect in the ‘recession we had to have’ of the early nineties.
Firstly it was not for the CEO’s or business owners to feel good about themselves, rather for higher strategic purposes and as an investment in ensuring the future re-stabilisation and growth of the organisation long term.
Management thought leaders and theorists of the time realised the intangible value of employer branding, corporate citizenship and maintaining loyalty from remaining employees and the positive impact it had on the bottom line after cost reduction programs had been put into effect. The strategy here was to get a down turning company up turning as soon as possible.
Productivity has a major impact on this and remaining employees feeling secure that they would be taken care of if it came down to them. Download full article here..
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