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Record W2333561154 · doi:10.1177/0258042x0903400306

Workforce Rationalisation: Views from the Top

2009· article· en· W2333561154 on OpenAlexaff
Sushmita Biswal Waraich, Gopa Bhardwaj

Bibliographic record

VenueManagement and Labour Studies · 2009
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBusiness, Management and Accounting
TopicOrganizational Downsizing and Restructuring
Canadian institutionsBombardier (Canada)
Fundersnot available
KeywordsRationalisationWorkforceFeelingPublic relationsBusinessPsychologySocial psychologyPolitical science

Abstract

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Downsized, delayered, reduced or we call it “rationalisation” — the impact on the survivors as well as victims will be the same. By glorifying the process of downsizing, the feelings and emotions do not change. After collecting data from different levels of executives the authors wanted to listen to the views of the top managers or the implementers. In the study 34 managers belonging to the top level i.e. vice president, general manager etc. from HR as well as non-HR functions were extensively interviewed. The questions evolved were based on review of literature and tried to probe the effect of “workforce rationalisation” on the survivors as well as victims. In this paper, their responses have been discussed and certain conclusions arrived at.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.011
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.015
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.011
Threshold uncertainty score0.060

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0110.015
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.001
Science and technology studies0.0080.012
Scholarly communication0.0100.008
Open science0.0010.006
Research integrity0.0040.009
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.033
GPT teacher head0.251
Teacher spread0.218 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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