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CHAPTER 14 ETHICS AND EMPLOYEE RIGHTS AND DISCIPLINE 493
(Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall,
1999); Connie Wanberg et al., Perceived
Fairness of Layoffs Among Individuals
Who Have Been Laid Off: A Longitudinal
Study, Personnel Psychology 2 (1999),
pp. 59 84.
92. Wanberg et al., Perceived Fairness of
Layoffs ; Brian Klass and Gregory
Dell omo, Managerial Use of Dismissal:
Organizational Level Determinants, Personnel
Psychology 50 (1997), pp. 927 953;
Nancy Hatch Woodward, Smoother
Separations, HR Magazine, June 2007,
pp. 94 97.
93. E-Mail Used for Layoffs, Humiliation,
BNA Bulletin to Management, October 2,
2007, p. 315.
94. Jaikumar Vijayan, Downsizings Leave
Firms Vulnerable to Digital Attacks,
Computerworld 25 (2001), pp. 6 7.
95. Paul Falcon, Give Employees the
(Gentle) Hook, HR Magazine, April
2001, pp. 121 128.
96. James Coil III and Charles Rice, Three
Steps to Creating Effective Employee
Releases, Employment Relations Today,
Spring 1994, pp. 91 94; Richard Bayer,
Termination with Dignity, Business
Horizons 43, no. 5 (September 2000),
pp. 4 10; Betty Sosnin, Orderly
Departures, HR Magazine 50, no. 11
(November 2005), pp. 74 78; Severance
Pay: Not Always the Norm, HR Magazine,
May 2008, p. 28.
97. See, for example, Richard Hannah, The
Attraction of Severance, Compensation
& Benefits Review, November/December
2008, pp. 37 44.
98. Jonathan Segal, Severance Strategies,
HR Magazine, July 2008, pp. 95 96.
99. Lawyers Say Reasonable Employer Is
Best Defense Against Wrongful Termination
Claims, BNA Bulletin to Management,
November 20, 2007, p. 379.
100. Court Permits Wrongful Termination
Benefit to Be Paid in Monthly Installments,
Benefits Magazine 48, no. 3
(March 2011), pp. 59 60.
101. Ibid.
102. Based on Coil and Rice, Three Steps to
Creating Effective Employee Releases,
pp. 91 94.
103. One More Heart Risk: Firing Employees,
Miami Herald, March 20, 1998,
pp. C1, C7.
104. Kemba Dunham, The Kinder Gentler
Way to Lay Off Employees More Human
Approach Helps, The Wall Street Journal,
March 13, 2001, p. B1.
105. Paul Barada, Before You Go . . . , HR
Magazine, December 1998, pp. 89 102;
Marlene Piturro, Alternatives to Downsizing,
Management Review, October
1999, pp. 37 42; How Safe Is Your Job?
Money, December 1, 2001, p. 130.
106. Peter Hom et al., Challenging Conventional
Wisdom About Who Quits:
Revelations from Corporate America,
Journal of Applied Psychology 93, no. 1
(2008), pp. 1 34.
107. Joseph Zarandona and Michael Camuso,
A Study of Exit Interviews: Does the Last
Word Count? Personnel 62, no. 3 (March
1981), pp. 47 48. For another point
of view, see Firms Can Profit from Data
Obtained from Exit Interviews, Knight
Ridder/Tribune Business News, February 13,
2001, Item 0104 4446.
108. In the recession years of 2008 and 2009
combined, employers carried out a total
of about 51,000 mass layoffs, idling over
5 million workers in total. Mass Layoffs
at Lowest Level Since July 2008, BLS
Says, BNA Bulletin to Management, January
12, 2010, p. 13.
109. See Nancy Ryan, Complying with the
Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification
Act (WARN Act), Employee
Relations Law Journal 18, no. 1 (Summer
1993), pp. 169 176; and Emily Nelson,
The Job Cut Buyouts Favored by P&G
Pose Problems, The Wall Street Journal,
June 12, 2001, p. B1. See also Rodney
Sorensen and Stephen Robinson, What
Employers Can Do to Stay Out of Legal
Trouble When Forced to Implement Layoffs,
Compensation & Benefits Review,
January/February 2009, pp. 25 32.
110. Leon Grunberg, Sarah Moore, and
Edward Greenberg, Managers Reactions
to Implementing Layoffs: Relationship to
Health Problems and Withdrawal Behaviors,
Human Resource Management 45,
no. 2 (Summer 2006), pp. 159 178.
111. These are suggested by attorney Ethan Lipsig
and discussed in The Lowdown on
Downsizing, BNA Bulletin to Management,
January 9, 1997, p. 16. See also Stephen
Gilliland and Donald Schepers, Why We
Do the Things We Do: A Discussion and
Analysis of Determinants of Just Treatment
in Layoff Implementation Decisions,
Human Resource Management Review 13,
no. 1 (2003), pp. 59 84.
112. Communication Can Reduce Problems,
Litigation After Layoffs, Attorneys Say,
BNA Bulletin to Management, April 24,
2003, p. 129.
113. John Kammeyer-Mueller and Hui Liao,
Workforce Reduction and Jobseeker
Attraction: Examining Jobseekers Reactions
to Firm Workforce-Reduction Strategies,
Human Resource Management 45,
no. 4 (Winter 2006), pp. 585 603.
114. Adrienne Fox, Prune Employees
Carefully, HR Magazine, April 1, 2008.
115. Ibid.
116. Grunberg, Moore, and Greenberg,
Managers Reactions to Implementing
Layoffs.
117. In one recent year, U.S. employers
implemented about 1,300 mass layoffs,
involving a total of almost 133,000 workers.
Layoffs: 133,914 Workers Idled by Mass
Layoffs in April, BLS Says, BNA Bulletin
to Management, June 3, 2008, p. 181.
118. Calling a Layoff a Layoff, Workforce
Management, April 21, 2008, p. 41.
119. Roderick Iversen and Christopher Zatzick,
The Effects of Downsizing of Labor
Productivity: The Value of Showing Consideration
for Employees Morale and
Welfare and High Performance Work Systems,
Human Resource Management 50,
no. 1 (January February 2011), pp. 29 44.
120. Ibid., p. 40.
121. Steve Weinstein, The People Side of Mergers,
Progressive Grocer 80, no. 1 (January
2001), pp. 29 31.
122. Based on Theft Is Unethical, HR Solutions
34 (October 2002), p. 66.
123. Bureau of National Affairs, Bulletin
to Management, September 13, 1985,
p. 3.
124. David Gebler, Is Your Culture a Risk
Factor? Business and Society Review 111,
no. 3 (Fall 2006), pp. 337 362.
125. John Cohan, I Didn t Know and I Was
Only Doing My Job : Has Corporate
Governance Careened Out of Control?
A Case Study of Enron s Information
Myopia, Journal of Business Ethics 40,
no. 3 (October 2002), pp. 275 299.
126. Gebler, Is Your Culture a Risk Factor?
127. Ibid.