"No man - no problem." This statement, as cynical as it sounds, is often in the air when an organization is in crisis. Many employers have to do just that: fire and forget about the problems.
Instructions
Step 1
Each head of the institution, before carrying out the reduction of staff, asks the question of how to properly reduce the staff. First, you need to figure out what is the need for such a measure. Is it due to the low productivity of the company or the huge number of employees? If you are going to cut staff to save money, the result will be zero. Since there is a possibility of error, as a result of which you can lose talented subordinates. With a bloated workforce, first develop a strategy to retain unique talent that will be valued in other organizations as well.
Step 2
To do this, make sure that the staff is really redundant. Compare the organization's business plan to the staffing table. A fairly clear judgment about the future of the institution will help you understand how to reduce staff so that your managers have an idea in which direction the company will continue to work and what kind of workers it will need.
Step 3
Compare a company's operation to an airship. In every firm there are people who are like hot air moving an airship. Such people are always full of ideas. They know how to translate their ideas into reality and get good results from it. There are also employees who are "passengers" admiring the view from above. They do not know how to move the airship, but they are good performers. There are also "sandbags" in the airship, which must be disposed of. Such people drag the firm back without doing it any good. They are given by unrealistic ideas that turn out to be unsuitable for execution.
Step 4
Do not part with the "passengers", as you can still train them, improve their skills and motivate them. Then they may well become "hot air". But get rid of ballast in the form of "sandbags" without regret. In order to identify who is who, give your employees the task: write about their merits in the company for the last three months. "Hot air" and "passengers" will immediately find what they can write, but "sandbags" will prove that their work in this company is immeasurable, that they themselves are of great value to the company.
Step 5
Save "hot air". Without it, there will be no income in your company. Sometimes it happens that productive employees on the wave of layoffs in the company themselves apply for layoffs. To avoid this, talk to each of them individually. Explain to them all the prospects of working in your company, explain that the company is going through a temporary crisis. Give them tasks in which they can even more realize their capabilities. Comparing an organization to an airship in this way often helps executives cut their workforce without tangible losses.
