David Noer, a professor emeritus in the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business, had a column published in BusinessWeek this month in which he offers company executives ways to manage stress when they are forced to make layoffs.
“Layoff Time: How Executives Can Manage the Stress” first appeared July 24 on the magazine’s web site.
From the column:
“Executives create a great deal of their own stress by putting all their social and emotional eggs in the organizational basket. Who they are is where they work—except that they know eventually the basket will be dropped, and the eggs will be broken … The most successful and stress-free executives are those who know they have the skills and options necessary to leave the organization but choose to be there. The most stressed and least productive executives are those who live in fear of losing their jobs and engage in a self defeating, passive-aggressive strategy of just trying to hold on.”
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