Forecasting Indicates Your Company Needs to Reduce Its White-Collar Workforce

question 61

Multiple Choice

Forecasting indicates your company needs to reduce its white-collar workforce in order to avoid a labour surplus in the next three to five years.Consistent with the corporate culture it wants to maintain,your company places a higher priority on minimizing human suffering than on achieving the labour reduction quickly.The options that are most consistent with these priorities are:

• A) demotions and transfers.
• B) transfers and reducing hours.
• C) early retirement and retraining.
• D) natural attrition and transfers.
• E) pay reductions and transfers.

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