Being Fired is Better For Your Ego, Or Maybe the Company's
Here's an interesting fact: if you were fired for lack of performance, that hurts a lot less than being laid off. Or so says a new study , according to newswise.com. A new study finds that corporate downsizing reduces managerial diversity, especially when layoff decisions consider workers’ position or tenure. But when layoffs are based on performance evaluations, managerial diversity remains intact — at least when it comes to white women and blacks, says the Wevb site. “It seems that the more individualized process of evaluating each worker on his or her merits — rather than using blanket criteria such as position or tenure — creates awareness and accountability among executives and motivates them to think deeply and creatively about who they should keep during downsizing,” said study author Alexandra Kalev, an Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Tel Aviv University at newswise.com. “This outcome of performance-based downsizing is not only good for manageria...