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Organizational restructuring and corporate downsizing can have a significant impact on the perceived social responsibility and responsiveness of any firm. This book analyzes the phenomenon by identifying the nature and types of structural or functional relationships that exist between downsizing and organizational performance variables, on the one hand, and organizational social responsiveness on the other. It looks at changes in the use of various restructuring techniques to improve efficiency and effectiveness and the effects of these changes on the organizational citizenship standing in the community. It goes on to add to the understanding of the general phenomenon of downsizing by examining its relationship to the level and pervasiveness of corporate social responsibility.
Karake-Shalhoub addresses three questions. First, is corporate downsizing related to improvement in organizational financial performance? Second, is there any relationship between downsizing and corporate social responsibility? Third, what is the nature of this relationship? The book will be attractive to management theory scholars, social responsibility and ethics researchers and practitioners, organizational development researchers and practitioners, and human resource scholars.
List of contents
Preface
Establishing the Context
Corporate Social Responsibility and Discrimination: The Literature
Organizational Crisis and Downsizing
Index for Downsizing Employees (RIDE) and Company's Performance
Empirical Analysis and Results
Concluding Remarks and Discussion
Bibliography
About the author
ZEINAB A. KARAKE-SHALHOUB is Professor of Management at the Catholic University of America. She is the North American Editor of the
Logistics Information Management Journal and the
Management Decision Journal and the author of
Technology and Developing Economies (1990) and
Information Technology and Management Control (1992), both published by Praeger.
