Downsizing effects: a Portuguese evidence

Tânia De Matos Gomes

Description

Colecciones : TD. Ciencias socialesDAEE. Tesis del Departamento de Administración y Economía de la Empresa
Fecha de publicación : feb-2008
Nuestro estudio empieza con una revisión del estado de arte. Además de la revisión cualitativa, nuestro primer capitulo también incluye un meta-análisis con el objetivo de sintetizar los efectos del downsizing en la rentabilidad. El tamaño del efecto, estimado por la integración de los ocho estudios posibles en el tema de los efectos del downsizing en la rentabilidad, es positivo, sin embargo es muy pequeño, lo que nos impide de concluir que las reducciones de plantilla aumentan, de forma inequívoca, la rentabilidad de las empresas. El segundo capitulo, estudia los efectos organizacionales. Hemos utilizado una muestra de empresas Portuguesas con más de 50 trabajadores, totalizando 2994 empresas. Se concluye que nuestras variables de rentabilidad (ROA, MB), son significativamente distintitas y negativas, en el año anterior al downsizing y en el propio año del fenómeno. Los resultados demuestran que en al año antes del fenómeno ocurrir, la rentabilidad es inferior para las empresas DOWNSIZER, cuando comparadas con las NO DOWNSIZER, lo que confirma la idea de que las empresas que han reducido su fuerza de trabajo han tenido peores resultados. En cuanto a los efectos longitudinales de las DOWNSIZER, los resultados no nos permiten confirmar que las empresas mejoran sus resultados en los dos años siguientes al downsizing, debido a las diferencias no significativas. Otro grupo de efectos los individuales ha sido estudiado en el tercer capitulo, y los resultados demuestran que, cuando se esta en un ambiente de downsizing, los empleados tienen más percepciones de inseguridad en el empleo que los empleados en ambientes de no downsizing, aunque la diferencia no es significativa. Además, en ambientes no downsizing, la falta de compromiso y los comportamientos innovadores son significativamente inferiores que en contextos de downsizing.We began our study with a state of art description. Regardless of the qualitative part, our first chapter also includes a meta-analysis with the purpose of synthesizing the organizational effects of downsizing on profitability. The effect size estimated by the integration of the eight possible studies in the downsizing effects on profitability research field is positive, even though it is extremely small, which avoid us to conclude that the plant reductions unquestionably increase the company s profitability.Concerning the second chapter, as regards organizational effects, we worked based ourselves on a sample of Portuguese companies with at least 50 employees, a total of 2994 companies. We may conclude that our profitability variables, ROA and PM, differ in a significantly negative way and with a pattern in the year before the downsizing occurs and in the t year, the year of the downsizing occurrence. Results indicate that profitability measures in the year before the downsizing are lower in the case of DOWNSIZERS when compared with the NO DOWNSIZERS, what confirms the idea that those firms that downsized their workforce had had previous worse results. As to the longitudinal effects for DOWNSIZER firms, the results do not allow us to confirm that firms increased their results in the succeeding years after downsizing, due to the fact that there were no significant differences. Other group of effects - the individual ones - was studied in our third chapter, and some empirical evidence highlighted that, when facing a downsizing environment, employees have higher perceptions of job insecurity than in no-downsizing contexts, although this difference is not statistically significant. With respect to no-downsizing contexts, the lack of commitment and the innovative behaviour are significantly lower than in downsizing circumstances.

Informations

• Publié par: Salamanca
• Publié le: 01 février 2008
• Nombre de lectures: 13
• Licence : En savoir +
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• Langue: Español
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

Extrait

University of Salamanca
Faculty of Economics
Department of Business Administration


Doctoral Dissertation

Downsizing effects: a Portuguese evidence


Author
Tânia de Matos Gomes Marques

Directors
Isabel Suárez González, PhD.
Pedro Filipe Pereira Pinheiro da Cruz, PhD.
Salamanca, Spain, February 2008

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Downsizing effects: a Portuguese evidence
Tânia Marques



Doctoral dissertation, for PhD. graduation, to be presented by permission of the Faculty
of Economics of the University of Salamanca for public examination in the University of
Salamanca.




Directed by:
Isabel Suárez González, PhD.
Pedro Filipe Pereira Pinheiro da Cruz, PhD.

University of Salamanca
Faculty of Economics
Department of Business Administration
2008



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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

My research thrill is finally at a special stage. I may now express my gratitude to all
those who helped me during this unique process.

Firstly, I thank my supervisors, Professor Isabel Suárez González and Professor Pedro
Cruz, for all the support, advice, comprehension and knowledge they offered throughout
the last years of research, especially during this dissertation. Their guidance was
valuable and their permanent enthusiasm gave me the strength to never give up and to
step forward.

I want to thank Pablo Muñoz Gallego for his special nature and character that allied
with his professionalism, knowledge and special way of understanding life has always
made me feel as a real part of the department, faculty, university and country.

To Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão do Instituto Politécnico de Leiria for their
trust in my skills and for showing that the public sector is adopting some important
changes in its organizational criteria.

To Salamanca University for all the support and conditions that were offered to me.

I also want to thank the two Portuguese reviewers, Arménio Rego, Phd. And Miguel
Pina e Cunha, Phd., for they useful comments and encouragement.

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To my dear friends, Valdemar Ferreira, Otília Bandeira, Justino de Oliveira Marques,
Célia Lopes, Carlos Matos, Sofia Rino, João dos Santos, Pedro Miguel, Tânia Simões,
João Diogo, Luís Lacerda, Álvaro Romão, Rui Silveirinha, Anabela Lopes, Ricardo,
Luís Mendes, Vitor Hugo, Ana Mendes, Catarina Neves, Inês Lisboa and Catarina
Carvalho. I must truly be grateful for their presence, everyone with a particular and
special role, in my life.

I would also like to express my gratitude to Anabela, Nelson, Nelsinho, José and
Baptista for their affection and support. They have shown me a more and more denoting
meaning of what it is to have a real family.

To my father, José, wherever he is. I felt his love and guidance every single day all the
way through these last years of doubt, fear and insecurity.

I am also extremely grateful to my beloved mother, Natália, who have always been by
my side, in the happy and the painful moments, despite the difficulties and the lack of
time I had to be with her when she needed me.

Moreover, I would like to thank Pedro. Many thanks for your love, care and friendship
through the last years we shared together. Day after day, you taught me the meaning of
an unlimited, free and real life. Being with you, made me a better human being. Thank
you for being unique.
Salamanca, February 2008.
Tânia Marques

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