Argues that successful "rightsizing" requires that managers preserve the morale and productivity of the remaining employees. Finds a communication consultant can offer guidance on how to maintain employee morale, help employees perceive the layoffs as fair, take care of employees who have lost their jobs, assist management with layoff…

Describes how the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, faced with cuts in state funds, is eliminating the jobs of eight tenured museum-research professors. (EV)

Interviewed 21 displaced workers regarding factors affecting their participation in training programs funded by Job Training Partnership Act. Found that educational, work and layoff, and personal factors differentiated between participants and nonparticipants. Nonparticipants seemed more focused on present or past, whereas participants seemed to…

Describes South Carolina's model program to place an expected minimum of 42,000 military veterans in its work force. (JOW)

Presents a light-hearted, yet serious, look at how to survive termination of employment. (SR)

During 1995 to 1996, the number of workers who lost jobs declined and the proportion that was reemployed rose. Compared with the previous Displaced Worker Survey, displaced workers spent fewer weeks without work and suffered less severe earnings losses. (Author)

Panel Study of Income Dynamics data on job loss (1976 to 1981 and 1986 to 1991) indicated stability in overall incidence of job loss but significant increases in involuntary loss for older workers. Reemployment rate of workers who involuntarily lost jobs dropped from 67% to 62%. Chances of a large wage cut rose to 17% by 1986 to 1991. (SK)

Losing a job is an awfully low point--until it turns into the opportunity to pursue writing full time, and a book like "The Five Ancestors: Tiger" results. Jeff Stone looks back to his own experience as a young reader and taps that experience to help frame his own writing. An intriguing snapshot of his new book follows.

Public libraries are suffering budget cuts in most states nationwide, according to an informal LJ survey, with a significant segment--though not a majority characterizing the strictures as worse than in the early 1990s, the last time libraries were hit hard. LJ contacted state library agencies and, in some-cases, state library associations, for a…

The authors examined the relationship between an individual's human capital profile--knowledge, skills, abilities, and other characteristics--and compensation before and after a job loss. The results of this study show that the types of human capital that predicted pre-job-loss salary differ from the types that predict reemployment salary. The…

Intended to assist those who have experienced termination, a checklist is offered to help "pick up the pieces" and take positive action. (MW)

Two major classes of environmental stressors have been examined in life stress research: major life events and minor everyday hassles. To compare these two classes of stressors along with two stressful life events (threatened job loss and reorganization of the work setting), and to investigate the buffering effect of coping responses on…

The study investigates the adequacy of pension plans and severance pay for defense workers in the event of defense cutbacks. Pension plans were examined on the basis of a sample of firms in the defense and nondefense sectors, matched by size and industry. The study finds that benefit provisions of defense industry plans are similar to those in…

For the most part, teachers were protected from job layoffs so the effect of Proposition 13 is being felt by administrators and classified personnel. (IRT)

The Redundancy Payments Act of 1965 established the idea that an employee has property rights to a job based on years of company service. It instituted an entitlement program for displaced workers sponsored by firms and the government. The British layoff situtation differs from that of the United States. (Author/CH)