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Downsizing Effects on Survivors: Layoffs, Offshoring, and Outsourcing
Author(s) -
MAERTZ CARL P.,
WILEY JACK W.,
LeROUGE CYNTHIA,
CAMPION MICHAEL A.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
industrial relations: a journal of economy and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.61
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1468-232X
pISSN - 0019-8676
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-232x.2009.00599.x
Subject(s) - offshoring , outsourcing , business , job security , demographic economics , sample (material) , labour economics , business administration , job insecurity , economics , marketing , work (physics) , mechanical engineering , chemistry , electrical engineering , chromatography , engineering , sense (electronics)
In a representative sample of 13,683 U.S. employees, we compared survivors of layoffs, offshoring, outsourcing, and their combinations to a group who experienced no downsizing. Survivors of layoffs perceived lower organizational performance, job security, affective attachment, calculative attachment, and had higher turnover intentions. Offshoring survivors perceived lower performance, fairness, and affective attachment, but outsourcing survivors generally did not have more negative outcomes than the no‐downsizing group. Layoffs generally had more negative outcomes than other downsizing forms.