Human Dimensions of Organizational Restructuring-A Study

A strong trend since the mid-1980s has been called restructuring, downsizing or more euphemistically, rightsizing in which organizations cut their labour by reducing of the size of their permanent full time staff (Fisher, Schoenfeldt and Shaw, 2004, P.744). In the organizational restructuring process, the very employees, who are store houses of knowledge and experience and used to bring competitive advantages to organizations, are suddenly becoming burden on them Das and Das (2009). Present study was conducted in an organization which is involved in public utility services after independence to examine whether human considerations are considered when it was undergoing its organizational restructuring activities.