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Resizing The Organization 4. This book seeks to provide executives with useful insights, tools, guidelines, principles, and lessons learned about organizational transition and change. | The Realities of Resizing 11 ing will result in a leaner meaner smarter and generally more competitive organization. Unfortunately now no one has the time to think of smarter or better ways of doing things. Support staff find themselves overwhelmed by the multiple demands placed on them during a resizing. For example human resource HR professionals are staggered by the work load in processing terminations and scheduling outplacement services. Moreover knowing that their own area a non-revenue-producing staff function is likely to be one of the hardest hit preoccupies them. In the meantime they are burdened by the line of employees outside their door waiting for an HR shoulder to cry on. In general resizing threatens the self-esteem and sense of fairness of all employees. People can rationalize layoffs based on performance as when an employee is repeatedly late to work or fails to meet production standards. However people cannot rationalize the fact that hard-working fellow employees have lost their jobs because of an economic downturn. Resizing victims blame themselves for not seeing it coming or not doing something to protect themselves. For victims and survivors alike a resizing eats away at the assumption of fairness in the workplace as they wonder why leadership could not stave off the dreaded event or identify some alternative course of action. Survivors see the human carnage of lost jobs and destroyed careers and wonder How could an organization I want to dedicate my life s work to do this to people Finally some evidence suggests that resizing effects transcend the employees themselves. The impact that job loss has on families and communities initially was reported by Leana and Feldman 1992 . Several other researchers now are exploring the effect that parents job insecurity has on such factors as children s academic performance and social development Barling Zacharatos Hepburn 1999 Schmitt Sacco Ramey Ramey Chan 1999 . Some families report that elementary .