Title: A Manual for Layoff
Review: The book's objective: "how do you cut costs while at the same time keep your best people".What the book tells you: steps to be taken when the company is in distress. There are seven steps and layoff is in step six. According to the book, it is as important to retain good people as to layoff the excess ones. The management has to identify who the good people are and how to retain them.What the book does not tell you: how to handle the head count issue in an otherwise normal company. As the company grows managers tend to add more head counts to cope with the increased workload. I bought the book expected to see such issue addressed. Including this issue would have made the book much more meaningful for every company wanting to keep compensation costs under control.
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