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Resizing The Organization 5

Resizing The Organization 5. This book seeks to provide executives with useful insights, tools, guidelines, principles, and lessons learned about organizational transition and change. | The Realities of Resizing 21 dures that alter established and comfortable ways of working. For others there is the more palpable uncertainty about job security and company identity. Cumulative Effects of Stress The stress of an event is determined by the amount of change it implies not necessarily whether the change will be beneficial or detrimental. Marriages and births can be as stressful as divorces and deaths Holmes Rahe 1968 . Each event disrupts the status quo entangles family and friends and requires that people adapt to new circumstances. Many times employees perceive resizings as offering both costs and benefits. A reduction in force may be painful but may also lay the foundation for organizational renewal. A divestiture may disrupt current work patterns but also send a business unit to a corporate parent with a better strategic fit and deeper pockets for long-term investment. Thus even positive changes induce stress. This point is important to consider because the effects of stress are cumulative. A series of small seemingly innocuous changes can add up to a large and significant change in a person s eyes. A situation becomes stress inducing when it taxes a person s ability to cope effectively. Unsure of why change is occurring and how it may affect them and unable to voice their concerns or control their fate employees accustomed ways of coping with stress are exaggerated. it is commonplace in organizations engaged in a transition to see people handle stress through the fight-or-flight reaction. Interviews conducted with employees during or soon after resizings are laced with seething indictments of managerial ineptness and examples of strained working relationships across groups. By contrast lethargy detachment and other signs of withdrawal can be found among white-collar professionals whose work keeps them out of political power circuits. Fight-or-flight reactions should be expected during and after a resizing but they can be costly. Angry managers .