Review the ethical model decision-making framework (Collins, 2009) and its ethical model in your Trevino and Nelson textbook and review the article “Workforce Downsizing” by Gandolfi.
Using the ethical model as your guide, imagine that you are the manager of a facility of 1,000 workers, and 200 employee layoffs are scheduled. Design an action plan for how the layoffs will occur. How would you handle both those being laid off and the survivors? Identify what stage of the ethical model your actions correspond to within your action plan.
Layout your action plan using the headings in the article:
- Introduction and the thesis
- Short-range cost adjustments
- Medium-range adjustments
- Long-range adjustments
- Concluding comments
