Argument Against Downsizing in Big Business
Downsizing through corporate layoffs, plant closures and mergers that relinquish small businesses changes the face of the American nation and ultimately serves to harm employees. The American dream used to encompass promoting the interests of workers and employees interested in realizing financial opportunities and long term employment. Today employees have nothing they can rely on. In the world of corporate America, only the fittest will survive. Most American employees realize they have few choices when it comes to job security, regardless of how far up the food chain they are within an organization. Loyalty is a double edged sword however. Companies are just as likely to be disloyal to employees as employees are to be disloyal to their employers. Everyone is looking out for their own self interests it seems when it comes to employment in the Western world. Deal & Kennedy (2000) argue that the "biggest single influence on a company's culture is the broader social and economic environment the company does business in" (21). This suggests that corporate culture results from what efforts a company engages in within a socio-economic context, thus if selling is necessary for success a company will sell, and if downsizing is neces
Middle managers are not the only employees at risk for losing their job however. Front line employees more and more face losing their jobs, replaced by foreign workers through various outsourcing programs that help reduce corporate overhead costs and promote the best interests of capital sensitive organizations (Karake-Shalhoub, 1999). In times of old loyalty was often defined as the company's commitment to the employee. Today loyalty is virtually non existent in environments where corporations fail to recognize the "social responsibility" associated with conducting business (Karake-Shalhoub, 1999). Rather than view employees as loyal followers organizations more and more are directing their attention to their economic and technical interests. On the same token, employees are more interested in promoting their self interests and maintaining their economic status than promoting the interests of their company's and corporations. The shift of responsibility from we to "I" within the world of corporation America has occurred gradually, but represents a pattern likely to continue into the next decade as organizations continue to seek out ways to save money, and employees continue to seek out secure and reasonable avenues of employment. Hornsby, Mueller & Van Deusen (1998) however, suggest that loyalty can still retain a place in modern corporations. Companies can for example, promote reemploym
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