Ten years ago, the California Supreme Court in Scott v. Pacific Gas recognized the concept of "unlawful demotion", deciding that demotees can sue the employer for breach of contract does not mean to drop without a good reason. Since that time, the study focuses on the reduction provided by organizations, in order to avoid litigation, where it may be more serious consequences of the demotion is a debilitating impact on the employees themselves. As shown in this article, we developed a model employee demotion, after lengthy personal interviews with more than 20-demotees ", which were attributed to lower hierarchical positions in wildlife law enforcement. During these discussions, individual after individual talked about lowering experience as demoralizing even from which they were afraid that they may never recover. Moreover, stigma reduction officer investigated to improve the understanding of the phenomenological four potentially harmful factors: (1) economic loss, (2) the lower well-being, (3) incomplete employment, and (4) the reaction of grief and crisis of identity. When developing models and theories from related disciplines adapted to begin to address the void in our understanding of what happens when organizations move people down, but not out. "Hide
by Paula Phillips Carson, Kerry David Carson Source: Business Horizons 12 pages. Publication Date: November 1, 2007. Prod. #: BH251-PDF-ENG
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