McLachlan, CJ orcid.org/0000-0002-4867-9409, MacKenzie, R and Greenwood, I orcid.org/0000-0001-6265-2803 (2021) Victims, survivors and the emergence of ‘endurers’ as a reflection of shifting goals in the management of redeployment. Human Resource Management Journal, 31 (2). pp. 438-453. ISSN 0954-5395
Abstract
The victim and survivor debate conceptualises employees impacted by restructuring as one or the other. A key contribution of this study is the identification of a conceptually distinct category of employee impacted by restructuring, the endurer. Endurers are survivors who share many of the experiences of victims, occupying a space in-between the two and not easily understood as either. Endurers experience redundancy of role yet retention of employment. This creates specific needs that pose new challenges for the human resource (HR) function. Through examining the HR function's implementation of an internal redeployment strategy at SteelCo, the study reveals the displacement of substantive goals by institutional goals, and the impact this has on endurers. The analysis of endurers' experiences also offers a conceptual lens for understanding changes to the psychological contract in the context of restructuring.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2020 The Authors. Human Resource Management Journal published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution‐NonCommercial License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/. |
Keywords: | downsizing; psychological contract; redeployment; redundancy; restructuring; steel industry; survivors; victims |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Business (Leeds) > Work and Employment Relation Division (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 29 Jul 2020 15:43 |
Last Modified: | 25 Jun 2023 22:21 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/1748-8583.12314 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:163662 |