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PROLOGUE—A LEGACY FOR FUTURE EMPLOYEES 1
The Downsizing Dilemma, 1 A Question of Values, 2 Muddling toward the
Millennium, 4 Looking beyond the Numbers, 5 The Rightsizing
Remedy—Building a New Employment Relationship, 6 An Alert to Human
Resource Managers and a Warning to Readers, 14
CHAPTER 1 REMEMBERING THE PAST—PIONEERS,
PATERNALISTS, AND PARACHUTES 15
FRONTIER AMERICA, 16 America—A New Beginning in Employment Law,
16 The Noble Individual—Self-Reliant and Mobile, 16 The Emergence of the
Doctrine of Employment-at-Will, 17 The Dawn of the Industrial Era, 18
Reform to Welfare: The Beginning of the End, 20
WELFARE AMERICA, 21 The Age of Institutions, 21 The Institutional
Individual—Committed and Dependent, 22 A Growing Welfare Web, 22
A Nation of At-Will Employees, 23
RESTRUCTURED AMERICA, 24 The Gathering Storm, 24 Learning that
Small Is Beautiful, 26 The Smokeless Smokestack, 27 The Outsourcing
Outbreak, 28 Life in the New Fortune 100, 29 Baby Boomers and Musical
Chairs, 30 The Exorcism Bandwagon, 31 Winners and Losers, 32 A New
Epidemic, 34
CHAPTER 2 FORSAKING THE PRESENT—OLD SOLUTIONS
FOR INSOLUBLE PROBLEMS 36
THE MISGUIDED SEARCH FOR VILLAINS, 37 World War II Revisited,
37 Wall Street Blues, 38 Corporate Rip Van Winkles, 39 Attacking the
Messenger, 40
PIONEERING THE LAST AMERICAN FRONTIER, 41 Poor Mr.
Comerford, 41 At-Will Exceptions, 41 California, Here I Come, 44
A Legal Nightmare, 45
A CASE OF CORPORATE SCHIZOPHRENIA, 46 The Warning Is on the
Label, 46 The Rush to Halfway Houses, 47 Comforting the Survivors, 49
When Lightning Strikes Twice, 50
A CRASH COURSE IN BECOMING AIRBORNE, 50 Midlife Surprises, 50
Network Overload, 51 Free Agents in a Closed Shop, 52 The New
Radical 53
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CHAPTER 3 VISIONING THE FUTURE—NEW WORKPLACE
TRENDS AND OPPORTUNITIES 56
A SPROUTING SPIRITUALISM, 57 Beyond the Is God Dead? Era, 57
The Power of Ethics, 58 The Born-Again Institution, 59
THE GLOBAL GLUE, 60 The Transnational Corporation, 60 Expatriates,
Host Country, and Third Country Nationals, 61 Blurring of National
Employment Laws, 62
THE FICKLE FUTURE, 63 The Obsolescence of Tomorrow, 63 Routinized
Restructuring, 64 The Dynamic Job Description, 65
THE QUALITY QUEST, 66 The Search for Snow White, 66 Following the
Call, 68 The Oath of Allegiance, 69
THE DOWNSIZED DEMOGRAPHICS, 70 Boomers, Busters, and Boomets,
70 The Sunset of Social Security, 71 Selecting Successive Careers, 72
THE HIGH-TECH HOUSEHOLD, 74 The Illiterate Ph.D., 74 Rezoned
Residences, 75 Picking Parallel Positions, 77
THE PROFESSIONALIZATION PUSH, 78 Societies of Professionals, 78
Lateral Welfare Webs, 79 Functional Representation, 80
THE GRASS-ROOTS GRIP, 81 The Stakes for States, 81 Carrots and
Sticks, 82 Geographic Representation, 84
THE INFORMATION IMPLOSION, 85 Feeding the Mushrooms, 85
Knowledge Worker Unrest, 86 The Corporate Sunshine Law, 87
THE CONSTITUTIONALIZED COMPANY, 88 Corporate Citizenship, 88
The Bill of Rights, 90 The Autonomous Employee, 91
CHAPTER 4 EMPOWERING THE AUTONOMOUS
EMPLOYEE—A TIME OF CHOICES 93
LONG-TERM VERSUS SHORT-TERM EMPLOYMENT, 94 In the Long
Run We Are All Dead! 94 Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover, 95 One Small Step
for Man, 96 Knowing When to Stay, 97 Knowing When to Leave, 98
EXPRESSED VERSUS IMPLIED BARGAINS, 100 Good Fences and Bad
Neighbors, 100 The Downside of Institutional Memory, 101 The Upside of
Truth-in-Advertising, 102 Good Faith and Fear Dealing, 103 The People s
Court, 104
BIG VERSUS SMALL EMPLOYERS, 105 Does Employer Size Really
Matter? 105 When Is Big Too Big ? 107 When Is Small Too Small ? 108
Motherships and Satellites, 109 The Networked Organization, 111
EMPLOYER VERSUS PROFESSION, 112 Why Do You Cut Stones ? 112
The Occupational Core, 114 The Shaky Staff Branches, 115 Before the
Bough Breaks, 117 People Make All the Difference, 118
FULL-TIME VERSUS PART-TIME EMPLOYMENT, 119 What Time Is It?
119 Part-Time Employees or Employers, 121 Who Owns the Rest of Me? 123
The Disappearance of Leisure Time, 124 After All, It Is About Time ! 126
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CHAPTER 5 HUMAN BEINGS AT WORK—A VOYAGE BACK
TO THE FUTURE 128
COMING ON BOARD, 132 Rightsizing Avoids Downsizing, 132 Negative
Management Points, 133 Hiring At-Will, 136 Qualified versus Quantified
Candidates, 139 The Marginal Marketplace, 141
GOING TO WORK, 143 What s My Line? 143 How Now, Brown Cow! 145
The Position Proposal, 147 Defining Teamwork, 149 Ranks and Rates, 151
GETTING REWARDED, 155 Managing, Not Measuring, Performance, 155
Win-Win Performance Appraising, 158 Gain and Loss Sharing, 160 The
Bottom-Up Bonus, 163 The Trickle Down Thank You, 165
MOVING THROUGH, 166 The Corporation Corps, 166 Grooming of
Generalists, 169 The Slow-Track Career, 171 Promotion and Sidemotion,
173 Outplacers as Intrackers, 175
PREPARING TO LEAVE, 178 Humane Up and Out Systems, 178 Flexible
Benefits, 180 Fast-Track Retirement Plans, 181 The 10-Year Career, 183
The Emeritus Employee, 185
CHAPTER 6 FOLLOWING THE RIGHTSIZING REMEDY—AN
INTEGRATED HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT APPROACH 187
STEP 1. INTERNALIZE YOUR ENVIRONMENT, 189 Start with a Blank
Piece of Paper, 189 Think Holistically, 192 Invent the Future, 193 Construct
New Bottom Lines, 195 Quantify the Unquantifiable, 196
STEP 2. EXTERNALIZE YOUR CULTURE, 198 Get Rid of Your Tanks,
198 Tell the Emperor to Dress Up His Act! 200 Practice Management-by-
Neglect, 202 Become the Perfect Audience, 204 Customerize Your Code of
Ethics, 206
STEP 3. UPSIZE YOUR PEOPLE, 208 Go for the MA Word, 208 Hire B s
and Make Them A s, 209 Remember What F Stands For, 212 Perfect The
Three R s, 215 Give Your Employees a C, 217
STEP 4. DOWNSIZE YOUR SYSTEMS, 219 Uncouple the Train, 219
Couple Performance, 221 Reevaluate Position Evaluation Plans, 225 Refringe
the Benefits, 227 Kill All the Lawyers? 230
STEP 5. FLEXSIZE YOUR STRUCTURE, 234 Find the Invisible
Organization, 234 Get Rid of the Numskull Factor, 236 Throw Out All the
Scripts, 237 Get into the Right Channels, 240 Nurture a Network of Adams
and Eves, 242
EPILOGUE—A TRIBUTE TO PRESENT EMPLOYEES 244
Honoring the Dignity of Workers, 244 Looking behind the Mask, 245 Making
the Individual Triumphant, 246
NOTES 247
INDEX 263
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