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Resizing The Organization 12. This book seeks to provide executives with useful insights, tools, guidelines, principles, and lessons learned about organizational transition and change. | Resizing and the Psychological Contract 91 tions and behaviors are driven by their emotions. Once an organization has decided that resizing is the only feasible response to competitive pressures on the organization management must identify the specific actions it will implement to maintain a sound psychological contract between the organization and its employees. We believe that organizations will have a better chance of upholding their psychological contracts and achieving the goals and objectives of their resizing initiative by honestly addressing four key questions 1. Why is resizing necessary 2. What processes should be in place to address employee perceptions of justice 3. How will resizing affect the various positions and responsibilities throughout the company 4. How will resizing modify the personal outcomes that organizational members will receive communicating this information should greatly increase employee satisfaction and performance levels during and after resizing. if the issues are effectively addressed a more positive psychological contract will exist between the employee and the employer and resizing efforts will be facilitated. The Importance of Open Communication Perhaps the most important component when resizing an organization is to have an effective communication system. When change is implemented managers obviously are concerned about what types of information need to be communicated to employees to ensure that change activities run as smoothly as possible. A longer-term concern is how human resource practices can be used to ensure open communication persists over time in order for future change initiatives to be effective. organizations that are successful in their resizing efforts need to have good communication throughout the organization. We describe why communication across multiple levels of the organization is an important part of resizing efforts by introducing the concept of a communication triad. Table summarizes how each .