Hrm 530 Week 6 Assignment 3: Dismissal Meeting

Assignment 3: Dismissal MeetingNameTutor’s Name30/07/2015Propose three (3) ways that a manager can cope with any negative emotions that may accompany an employee layoff.Implementing layoffs will often require that managers interact with employees in highly charged circumstances. This is likely to place a significant emotional burden on the employee especially when they attempt to balance the intentions of the organisation and the interests of colleagues. This emotional burden produces negative effects on the managers attitudes often manifested in, intentions to quit, elevated levels of cynicism, uncertainty and depersonalization. The reason for the emotional burden is because frontline managers ultimately select employees targeted for layoff.Managers can manage or cope with negative emotions that may accompany an employee layoff by shielding individual managers of salaried employees from taking full responsibility of selecting employees for layoff individually. This can be done by instituting a formal and elaborate system of rules and procedures for selecting employees for layoff. Managers should have a forum to collectively negotiate and agree on the individual employees who are surplus. The employees labelled surplus in the negotiated process are the ones targeted for possible layoff. This