Reenergizing Employees After a Downsizing

This case will help you learn to evaluate and manage the consequences of significant organizational changes, like

downsizing. As the managing editor of a small newspaper, you'll be assisting the editor as she grapples with the

consequences of a recent layoff. The case will touch on both the immediate aftermath of the downsizing and also

on how work will need to be structured and reorganized going forward. After reading the case, you'll prepare a

report for your editor that will lay out the pluses and minuses of a number of potential action steps for

reenergizing the paper's staff.