Layoffs, Equity Theory, and Work Performance: Further Evidence of the Impact of Survivor Guilt

Brockner, Joel; Greenberg, Jeff; Brockner, Audrey; Bortz, Jenny; Davy, Jeanette A.; Carter, Carolyn

doi:10.5465/256193

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“…An alternative explanation can be found in the study by Brockner and his colleagues (Brockner et al, 1986). In examining the effects of the criteria for being laid off on survivors' behaviors, their study found that survivors exerted more effort when the dismissal was based on a random process than on a merit basis.…”

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Distributive justice and organizational commitment revisited: moderation by layoff in the case of Korean employees

Chang

2002

Human Resource Management

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Section: Control Variablesmentioning

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Distributive justice and organizational commitment revisited: moderation by layoff in the case of Korean employees

Chang

2002

Human Resource Management

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“…A memetic approach to PM regards a project as an elaborate construct where the description of progress is a story, restricted by PM language, where meaning is appropriated existentially [4]. Project managers frequently become so egotistically involved in the stories of their project that their identities are immersed in them, causing them to support their project despite contradictory evidence, because failure suggests a threat to their own selfesteem [12].…”

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The impact of Puritan ideology on aspects of project management

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Schulz

2007

International Journal of Project Management

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This paper examines the impact of Puritan ideology on various aspects of project management. By using a memetic approach to project management research, this paper traces the development of the ethos or spirit of project management from its Puritan origins. It argues that contrary to traditional thinking, project management has developed against a background of Puritan elements (memes) that are favourable to the development of capitalism. Moreover, it is suggested that these religious origins continue to impact in a conservative way on how the project management discipline evolves; limiting its development, oversimplifying the process of managing people, and consequentially thwarting nonconformists.

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“…Studying the effect of layoffs on survivors using a laboratory experiment, Brockner et al (1986) find evidence in support of "positive inequity theory" -the idea that by surviving a layoff, a worker will perceive her "outcome-to-input ratio" to be larger than her laid-off coworkers, will experience guilt, and will consequently increase her work effort. Likewise, Brockner et al (1993), using evidence from both the lab and the field, find that the work effort of survivors is increasing in the perceived threat of a future layoff.…”

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Job loss and effects on firms and workers

2012

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This paper serves as an introduction and (incomplete) survey of the wide-ranging literature on job loss. We begin with a discussion of job stability in the US and the commitment between firms and workers, and how this has changed in recent years. We then focus on the short and long-term consequences to workers (i.e. wages, health outcomes) following a layoff, and the effect which mass layoffs have on future firm performance. The changing nature of these relationships over the past several decades is a central theme of this paper. We review the common data sources used to examine these questions, and identify many influential papers on each topic. Additionally, we discuss alternative policies to the typical mass layoff, such as worksharing. We are grateful to David Autor, Sherrilyn Billger, Kristin Butcher, David Clark, Henry Farber, Felice Klein, Harold Oaklander, Tim Taylor and Olga Yakusheva for many helpful suggestions on work leading to this paper. Michelle Arthur, Sara Christopher, John Deke, Erica Field, Charles Fields, Clayton Reck, Martha Schniepp, and Kristen Stanton provided excellent research assistance in collecting some of the data. This paper draws on, among others, Hallock (2006) and Hallock (2009) for which permission has been granted from Emerald Group Publishing Limited and The American Economic Association, respectively to use portions in this work. 1 AbstractThis paper serves as an introduction and (incomplete) survey of the wide-ranging literature on job loss. We begin with a discussion of job stability in the US and the commitment between firms and workers, and how this has changed in recent years. We then focus on the short and long-term consequences to workers (i.e. wages, health outcomes) following a layoff, and the effect which mass layoffs have on future firm performance. The changing nature of these relationships over the past several decades is a central theme of this paper. We review the common data sources used to examine these questions, and identify many influential papers on each topic. Additionally, we discuss alternative policies to the typical mass layoff, such as worksharing. 2Job loss is painful. There are thousands of individual stories of workers who lose their jobs each year from all parts of the world 1 . A great deal of work across the social sciences examines the causes and consequences of job loss. This chapter considers a small part of that work and specifically focuses on the effects of job loss on workers (including the effects on subsequent wages and on health) and on the effects of job loss on companies (including short-and longer-run corporate performance). It also considers other questions such as whether firms are less committed to workers and workers less committed to firms than they were in the recent past, considers a variety of data sources for research on job loss, and considers alternatives to job loss and various public policies in the United States and throughout the world.To begin, it should be noted that this paper will not focus on other im...

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Layoffs, Equity Theory, and Work Performance: Further Evidence of the Impact of Survivor Guilt

Cited by 55 publications

References 10 publications

Distributive justice and organizational commitment revisited: moderation by layoff in the case of Korean employees

Distributive justice and organizational commitment revisited: moderation by layoff in the case of Korean employees

The impact of Puritan ideology on aspects of project management

Job loss and effects on firms and workers

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