downsizing definition

downsizing

Computing: Adapting mainframe computer based software to a desktop or personal computer (PC) based architecture, without too many compromises in system integrity, security, and control.

Management: Intentional reduction in the size of a workforce at all staffing levels, to survive a downturn, improve efficiencies, or become a more attractive candidate for acquisition or merger. Used often as a euphemism for indiscriminately firing the employees. See also rationalization.

downsizing is in the Computer Hardware, Software, & Security and Entrepreneurship, Management, & Leadership subjects.

downsizing appears in the definitions of the following terms: organizational memory, deskilling, rationalization, outsourcing, corporate amnesia, dumbsizing, termination benefit and redundancy

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