Strategic Human Resource Management

Section One

Table 1-3
Techniques for Avoiding Layoffs in the Long-Term

Source: Adapted from James F. Bolt. “Job Security: Its Time Has Come,” Harvard
Business Review 61, no. 6 (1983): 115–23; and Joseph T. McCune, Richard W. Beatty,
and Raymond V. Montagno. “Downsizing: Practices in Manufacturing Firms,” Human
Resource Management 27, no. 2 (1988): 145–61.

The feasibility of buffering appears to be increasing. The
range of jobs for which temporary or contract employees are
used is expanding. For example, the services of accountants,
computer technicians, engineers, and financial managers are
increasingly being obtained on a temporary or contract basis.^83
Another example of flexible employment arrangements comes