Downsizing the company without downsizing morale

MIT Sloan Management Review

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 39-44

  Mishra, Anil K ^a   Mishera, Karen E ^b   Spreitzer, Gretchen M ^c  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Merdith College   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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References (24)

1. K.E. Mishra, G.M. Spreitzerand A.K. Mishra, "Preserving Employee Morale During Downsizing," Sloan Management Review 39, no.2 (January 1998): 83-95.
2. K.E. Mishra, G.M. Spreitzerand A.K. Mishra, "Preserving Employee Morale During Downsizing," Sloan Management Review, Ibid. 39, no.2 (1998): 83-95.
3. K.E. Mishra, G.M. Spreitzerand A.K. Mishra, "Preserving Employee Morale During Downsizing," Sloan Management Review, Ibid; 39, no.2 (1998): 83-95.
4. G.M. Spreitzer and A.K. Mishra, "To Stay or to Go: Voluntary SurvivorTurnover Following an Organizational Downsizing," Journal of Organizational Behavior 23, no.6 (September 2002): 707-729;
5. J. Brockner, G.M. Spreitzer, A.K. Mishra,W. Hochwarter, L. PepperandJ. Weinberg, "Perceived Control as an Antidote to the Negative Effects of Layoffs on Survivors' Organizational Commitment and Job Performance," Administrative Science Quarterly 49, no. 1 (March 2004): 76-100.
6. We define empowerment as a personal sense of control in the workplace as manifested in four beliefs about the person-work relationship: meaning, competence, self-determination and impact. See G.M. Spreitzer, "Psychological Empowerment in theWorkplace: Dimensions, Measurement and Validation," Academy of Management Journal 18 (1995): 1442-1465.
7. G.M. Spreitzerand A.K. Mishra, "Giving Up Control Without Losing Control: Trust and Its Substitutes' Effects on Managers' Involving Employees in Decision Making," Group and Organization Management 24, no.2 (1999): 155-187
8. Phone interview with Bob Lintz, Jan. 9, 2009.
9. A.K. Mishra and K.E. Mishra, "Trust is Everything: Become the Leader Others Will Follow" (Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Lulu Press, 2008). In this book, we profile several leaders who created high levels of trust and empowerment before they needed to downsize their organizations. After 20 years of studying trust through scores of interviews and several thousand surveys, we have found that trust is made up of four components: reliability, openness, competence and compassion. We call this the ROCC of Trust.
10. Mishra, "Trust is Everything."
11. Phone interview with Ted Castle, Jan. 23, 2009.
12. S. Mahroum, "Innovate Out of the Economic Downturn," Business Week, Oct. 27, 2008. www.businessweek.com.
13. Mishra, "Trust is Everything."
14. FF Reichheld, "The Loyalty Effect:The Hidden Force Behind Growth, Profits, and Lasting Value" (Cambridge: Harvard Business School Press, 1996).
15. A.K. Mishra and K.E. Mishra, "Trust From Near and Far: Organizational Commitment andTurnover in Franchise-Based Organizations" (paper presented at the 65th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Honolulu, Hawaii, Aug. 5-10, 2005).
16. M.B. Gavin and R.C. Mayer, "Trust in Management and Performance: Who Minds the ShopWhile the Employees Watch the Boss?" Academy of Management Journal 48, no.5 (2005): 874-888.
17. A.J. DuBrin, "Applying Psychology: Individual & Organizational Effectiveness" (Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2000).
18. Mishra, "Trust is Everything." A good example of this can be found in the e-mail Princeton University president ShirleyTilghman sent to alumni/ae on January 8, 2009, in which she wrote: "Our planning is guided by the goal of preserving the 'human capital' that is so essential to the quality of the University - its students, faculty and staff."
19. A. Gronstedt, "The Customer Century: Lessons from World-Class Companies in Integrated Marketing and Communications" (NewYork: Routledge, 2000).
20. S.A. Deetz, "Democracy in an Age of Corporate Colonization: Developments in Communication and the Politics of Everyday Life" (Albany: SUNY Press, 1992).
21. R. Likert, "The Human Organization: Its Management and Value" (NewYork: McGraw-Hill, 1967).
22. Mishra, "Trust is Everything," 59-60.
23. A.K. Mishra, K.E. Mishra and K.S. Cameron, "Power or Empowerment at General Motors?," in "Managing Organizational Behavior," 9th ed., ed. J.R. Schermerhorn, Jr., J.G. Hunt and R.N.Osborn, (NewYork: John Wiley & Sons, 2005), W58-W60.
24. F Gandolfi, "Learning From the Past- Downsizing Lessons for Managers," Journal of Management Research 8, no.1 (April 2008): 3-17