Workplace Challenges: Managing Layoffs, and Motivating Those Left Behind (an interview with Knowledge@Wharton)

The current downturn has left many companies scrambling to manage workplace issue—ranging from how to avoid a brain drain to how they can provide better value to customers and clients. Employees, for their part, face the challenges that arise from working in a leaner organization that demands increased productivity with fewer resources.

Knowledge@Wharton talked about these issues with Peter Cappelli, Wharton management professor and director of the school's Center for Human Resources, and Philip Miscimarra, a partner in Morgan Lewis's Labor and Employment Practice, co-chair of Morgan Lewis's Workforce Change Practice, and managing director of Wharton's Center for Human Resources research advisory group.

This podcast is offered with permission from Knowledge@Wharton (http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu). Copyright © 2009 Knowledge@Wharton.

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