Terminated employees find they are no longer as marketable as the last time they had to search for a job and that they need a certain amount of retraining to acquire new KSAs. They face the problem of having to investigate the new KSAs required to find re-employment." What firms could have down was to lend support for acquiring new skills. They could provide employees with appropriate training from time to allow them to gain new skills that would have helped after termination. Or they could simply help them understand that they would need new KSAs and help them acquire them during the downsizing process.

Even worse can be impact on the families of terminated employees. When firms fail to invest into human resource support and building, this results in serious shock not only for the terminated employee but also his family. Citing a research, the author argue that wives...
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