Staff layoff

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The layoff includes all "activities aimed at avoiding or reducing overcapacities of managers and employees".

In the past, this term has mainly been used by employer representatives. It has met with criticism, in particular, because it is a euphemism that disguises the negative consequences of layoffs for employees .

As an example of a "linguistic humiliation ", the release (in the sense of the release of personnel) in the election for the bad word of the year 1994 was declared to be another bad word of the year . The term Smartsourcing , in the context as it was used by Josef Ackermann , was put up as a candidate for the bad word of the year for 2005 .

causes

Causes for a layoff or for targeted staff reductions can u. a. be:

  • expected (short-term) increase in corporate profit
  • economic development, decline in sales and production
  • structural changes, relocation, reorganization, shutdown, company merger
  • seasonal reasons
  • Rationalization effects e.g. B. Mechanization and Automation
  • Management misjudgments
  • (short-term) increases in value aimed for, especially in the case of listed companies or takeover candidates

However, layoffs is not a synonym for redundancy for operational reasons . Alternative options for layoffs include internal transfers, personnel development measures (further training, retraining) and shortening of working hours (vacation planning, short-time work).

See also

Bibliography

  • Laurenz Andrzejewski, Hermann Refisch (2015) Separation culture and employee loyalty - making terminations, dismissals, transfers fair and efficient. 4th edition Wolters Kluwer Verlag Cologne ISBN 978-3-472-08660-4
  • Keßler, Heinrich (2005). Downsizing. How to protect your personal human capital in the event of an imminent downsizing. Norderstedt, Book on Demand. ISBN 3-8334-4079-1
  • Hamer, Wolfgang (2004). Downsizing / dismissal for operational reasons. Bund-Verlag, ISBN 3-7663-3580-4
  • Laws, Ralf. The socially acceptable downsizing. Background, causes, goals. WEKA-Media, ISBN 3-8276-7113-2
  • Rainer Marr , Karin Stein: Downsizing in German companies. Empirical results on causes, instruments and consequences (= Gabler Edition Wissenschaft ). Deutscher Universitäts-Verlag , Wiesbaden 2003, ISBN 3-8244-7869-2 .
  • Frank Müller, Hans B. Schiff, Gerd M. Strauch: Social transfer of personnel - Shaping change fairly with an outplacement , Kohlhammer Verlag 2005
  • Stock-Homburg, Ruth (2010), Personnel Management: Theories - Instruments - Concepts, 2nd edition. Gabler Publishing House. Wiesbaden. ISBN 978-3-8349-1986-1

credentials

  1. ↑ Stock-Homburg, R. (2010), p. 288

Web links

Wiktionary: Personnel release  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations