Question

1. What can managers do to manage downsizing?
2. Describe matrix and project structures.  

Answer 1

Managers can do following things to manage downsizing are-

1. Be transparent- let you employees know the reason of downsizing. Be real with them.

2. Ease fears of staff and establish new goals and new responsibilities for them

3. Have a clear vision and plan

4. Focus on the important stuff- set benchmarks for employees to keep them focus, clearly communicate about benchmarks to employees

5. Give back and make sacrifice for your employees when needed

6. Be empathetic or genuine

7. Treat employees with respect

8. Talk about their progression

9. Listen to employees’ concerns and fear

10. Offer as much support as possible

Matrix is an organizational structure in which reporting relationships are set as a grid instead of traditional hierarchy. In it employees have dual reporting relationship generally to functional manager and a product manager. It helps to bring together individuals of different departments to accomplish specific goal.

Project structure provides guidelines and flows that cover the topography of local development landscape. Project structure facilitates the coordination and implementation of project activities. It is essential for determining the hierarchy of people, their function, workflow and reporting system.

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