Since that time period, research on downgrading has centered on empowering organizations to avert litigation, when possibly a far more serious implication of the use of demotions is the debilitating impact on the workers themselves. As presented in this post, we developed a model of worker demotion, after conducting lengthy personal interviews with over 20 'demotees' who'd been relegated to lesser hierarchical places in a wildlife enforcement agency.
During the course of these interview, individual after individual spoke of the demotion encounter as a demoralizing from which they worried they might never recover. Herein, the stigmatization of employee demotion is investigated to enhance phenomenological understanding of four potentially detrimental consequences: (1) economic damage, (2) lower well being, (3) underemployment, and (4) grief reactions and identity crisis. In developing the model, theories from related disciplines are accommodated to start to address the void in our understanding about what occurs when organizations move folks down rather than out.
PUBLICATION DATE: November 01, 2007 PRODUCT #: BH251-HCB-ENG
This is just an excerpt. This case is about LEADERSHIP & MANAGING PEOPLE
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