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Resizing The Organization 29. This book seeks to provide executives with useful insights, tools, guidelines, principles, and lessons learned about organizational transition and change. | How to Implement Organizational Resizing 261 Managerial Considerations and Training Some top executives assume that managers accept the necessity for resizing agree with it and are fully capable of delivering the unpleasant message. They are wrong on all counts. Managers often have close ties with their employees. They might not see the strategic necessity for planned terminations or may not be entirely supportive of the actions to be taken. The company risks a they made me do it attitude that can be conveyed to the affected employees. it is important that managers buy into the reasons behind the resizing and the selection process. Top management should not simply assume that this understanding and support are automatic. The solution is gaining their support as to the logic behind the actions to be taken and then train the managers in how to deliver the message. Meeting with managers is important for a number of reasons. Typically managers are apprehensive about how to inform employees that their jobs have been eliminated. Furthermore the managers are coping with organizational change and it is stressful for them. What is the impact on their positions and career paths Upper-level management must communicate why the terminations are necessary and how the company will benefit in the long run. If an outplacement consulting firm has been retained its consultants can be called on to conduct this meeting. They will acknowledge the concerns of managers and employees to be terminated and then go through a step-by-step process of how the meeting will be conducted. This meeting has secondary advantages. in addition to training managers in how to notify employees of job loss invariably there is a review of the entire process. issues such as security timing communication and possible problem situations surface. Decisions are made by the group. At the conclusion of the meeting all participants will have a greater feeling of confidence that the plan will be implemented with a .