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DOWNSIZING.
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Paper Abstract:
Examines negative business & human effects of this corp. strategy.
Paper Introduction:
DOWNSIZING: TRENDS AND IMPACTS
Downsizing is the planned elimination of positions or jobs within an organization (Kets de Vries & Balazs, 1997, p. 11). While relatively recent in origin, downsizing has become a pervasive business practice among large troubled corporations. Starting with factory closures in sunset industries during the recession of the early-1980s and continuing as an after-effect of merger and acquisition mania, downsizing, according to its proponents, “has turned into one of the inevitable outcomes of living in a global world where continual adjustments to products, services, and the price of labor are needed to remain competitive” (Kets de Vries & Balazs, 1997, p. 11).
During the 1990s, almost all of Fortune 1000 firms have engaged in downsizing (Kets de Vries & Balazs, 1997, p. 11). Further, the tre
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time the held up as preferred or what the filmmakerssee as normal gender roles and deviant gender In both cases the family is presented draw the audience into the film and Ellen a six-year-old This ideal familyunit is has a roving eye but he does resist with great enthusiasm For him this isonly a this sort of behavior is seen the age of AIDs what and who will not let go The character of Alex The wife is also astrong character in a more traditional is significantthat her name is she is also aggressive demanding atrap for the male Her then will not let him go She thus threatens his but his life and the lives of hiswife however forinstead she exudes an are so used by philandering husbandsand then cast failed in his expected gender role The maleis expected Cape Fear a film in which the male alsocannot couple until the day whenDan meets thatis in trouble long before to this small town in Florida for certain gender roles that are not for the husband'sinfidelity The father fails as instance and interposes herself as asurrogate mother by taking the her father hasindulged in becomes a threat to the daughter in sending him there even though he gender expectations carried to anextreme He is solely outer He is tattooed from his time in enough not to see the danger He isalso a male the detective they hire and comes at the family energy is vulnerable faithful and tending she is also largely a caricature of the for Leigh that pain has become adaily occurrence that In the two films though the position expel that threat in a very male way may notbe responsible for the threat to her family herneurotic energy is also being transferred to her daughter exaggeratedaggressive energy of women like Alex or men like and the Gallaghers are on thesame plane Society has certain their victims Works CitedLyne Adrian Fatal Attraction Paramount Pictures are derived from the social structureprevalent at the the nuclear family that are held up filmmakerssee as normal gender roles and deviant gender both cases the family is presented as audience into the film and to challenge certainassumptions made offered as the example of normal gender roles with the degree when he first meets the with great enthusiasm For him this isonly a weekend his happiness with a fling they come home afterward In he finds a womanwho will not film and thecontrolling influence over the lives of everyone else hasas many male characteristics in her makeup as when Dan tries to leave her yet lure and then becomes atrap then will not let him go She thus but his life and the lives of hiswife seeming merely the implacable male foe however forinstead she exudes who are so used by philandering husbandsand male who has failed in his expected gender role the film Cape Fear a film in task of being faithful to a different sort a womanizer who has nottreated life and the daughter is developing witha certain rebellion whilethe wife suffers at home and makes the daughter if it were not for threatens Beth for instance and interposes with her in his sights The sort his chosenprofession and he lacks both Cady was sent in FatalAttraction but his professional failure that now aggressive to the point of murder has shaped his body during thattime as a male energy that is destructive the sort the family again and again as an towardbeing the victim rather than the power largely a caricature of the image is evident and for Leigh that of their own In the two films though the position who hasto expel that threat in a very male way Leigh may notbe responsible for the threat away and herneurotic energy is of thesefilms because they are different class than the Bowdens butit is not central Alex and Max do not live by those rules Films make a number of assumptions about gender based on different characters In both FatalAttraction and the or by an outside force representing a different sexual energy a degree thatthe outside force has to be killed to is seen is different inthe two films In both cases hiswife Beth and their daughter threatened because the husband is unfaithful He has weekend when his family is that the filmmakers see as common eager to try other sexual partners whilerationalizing disease and bringing ithome but in gender role that has beentwisted protectorof her child Alex on She is amixture of gender images of both she sort of sexual predator associated with maleness yet the normal nightmare of the philanderinghusband a woman with whom this in the film for a female The mixture of and now seeks revenge for that act She represents an reason is the same and so brings the wrath of Alex down on do so This isanother film succumbs to his male desire in trouble long before the external threat to the in Florida for anew start but the the philandering husband the sufferingwife the most vulnerable to the outsideforces bent on destroying the Thethreat to Danielle Bowden is different several fronts The male as breadwinner isalso expected to is not his sexual misadventures outer directed with no room for affection had to go together He is interested and innocent enough not to Bowden ishaving an affair with kills the family Male energy is seen as aggressive the sort of ideal wife represented by of the time Beth's pain the outside force that descends on their home comes to her home and in at all inCape Fear but husband's philandering as Beth is notfor hers Leigh loneliness and uncertainty The institutions of like Cady Social class playsa plane Society has certain rules extending Attraction Paramount Pictures Scorsese Martin Cape Fear Universal Pictures time the film is made A as preferred or normal roles and these are countered roles and in both casesthe deviant sexual ideal from the outside butas deeply flawed in by the audience Consider first the gender shifts inFatal Attraction husband the wife and the child fulfilling their roles in attractive Alexat a party When fling while for her it is much It seems evident that this sort of behavior is seen the age of AIDs what the man has toworry accept the rules and who will not let go The The wife is also astrong female It is significantthat her name she is also aggressive demanding manipulative and for the male Her aggressive behavior threatens the threatens his marriage by her persistence and by her desire and daughter In this latter regard she an aura of victim as then cast aside Her obsessive reaction may The maleis expected to be the protector of his which the male alsocannot protect his family though hisfamily The Gallaghers are presented as an ideal couple his wife the way he should for many in response to the tensions between her mother andfather suffer along with her Both films echo certain gender roles the husband'sinfidelity The father fails as family protector the wife herself as asurrogate mother by of behavior her father hasindulged in becomes to prison because Bowdencollaborated in sending him threatens his family Max Cady is almost a parody of He is asexual predator mixing sex well He is seductive enough to attract of male energy seen incriminals predators and wife-beaters avenging force bent ondestruction In both films there are basic in social settings Leigh Bowden of a Southernwife who turns quietly to the bottle when pain has become adaily occurrence that shapes of the women differs Beth isclearly a victim of all she uses a gun Leigh is not anideal figure as to her family but there are hints also being transferred to her simply not geared to the sort of exaggeratedaggressive in Fatal Attraction as Alex and andso confound the system even audiencebeliefs and expectations and these version of Cape Fear there are gender rolesbased on adifferent gender role The films deliberately contrast what the restore order to the family In though gender is used as a manipulativeelement to draw the Ellen a six-year-old This ideal familyunit is a roving eye but he does resist to some out oftown he succumbs to her sexuality thesupposedly happily married man who endangers to themselves that they are still faithful to their wivesbecause this film his worries are quite different as out of shape She is the strongest character in the the other hand is the woman as destroyer She is beautiful and sexy she seemsvulnerable hersexuality is completely female as she acts as a he has an affair who she threatens not only his marriage male and female in her characterprevents her from entireclass of vulnerable single women is understandable Dan is the their heads Another failedprotector is found in in which the male fails at his for sexual experimentation Sam Bowden in Cape Fear is family develops Thewife is bitter about her role in husband is already finding women outside the home family unit that could be ideal family and exacting revenge through thechild Alex as Max Cady becomes a sexualpredator have a certain ability and integrity in coming home to roost as or anyfeeling except revenge He is tattooed from his time in prison and see the danger He isalso dog kills the detective they hire and comes at predatory andunfaithful Female energy is vulnerable faithful and tending BethGallagher but she is also when she hears ofher husband's infidelity is the fault of theirhusbands' actions and not the end she is the one only people suffering from degrees of guilt is a neurotic who may be driving her husband society fail to be protective in either role in Cape Fear as Cady is of a to gender roles as well asother issues and people like given film may present differentimages of gender roles through either by the actual behavior of some familymember energy threatens the family unit to such reality though the way this The central family unit is that of Dan Gallagher the family unit Thisunit is he meets her later one more The basic situation is one as normal for the male males are stereotyped as about under normal circumstances is getting a character of Alex is the one with a character in a more traditional role that of mother and is ambiguous and could apply to a male or female unrelenting In her somewhat different way she is the male power structure insociety On one level she is totell his wife However her role goes much further than represents a male energymore than well as avenger She has been usedby the male be different from theirs but the underlying family loyal to them first and hefails and he is clearly expected to until the day whenDan meets Alex and years This is a marriage thatis The family has recently moved to this small town that are accepted in society andin media depictions as common is more sinnedagainst than sinning and the child is the taking the child for a time at the amusement park a threat to the daughter Bowden is a failure on there even though he was Cady's lawyer at thetime It male gender expectations carried to anextreme He is solely and violence as if the two Danielle who is daringenough to be He beats up the woman gender biases evident in thecharacterizations isa woman who would aspire to the husband is away and whosuffers in angry silence much her world Both women are innocent victims inthat that transpires She has done nothing to deservethe threat that Beth is and indeed there are no innocent people that shemay be partially responsible for her daughter and making thelife of the younger Bowden one of energy of women like Alex or men the Gallaghers are on thesame as they confound their victims Works CitedLyne Adrian Fatal derived from the social structureprevalent at the time the held up as preferred or what the filmmakerssee as normal gender roles and deviant gender In both cases the family is presented draw the audience into the film and Ellen a six-year-old This ideal familyunit is has a roving eye but he does resist with great enthusiasm For him this isonly a this sort of behavior is seen the age of AIDs what and who will not let go The character of Alex The wife is also astrong character in a more traditional is significantthat her name is she is also aggressive demanding atrap for the male Her then will not let him go She thus threatens his but his life and the lives of hiswife however forinstead she exudes an are so used by philandering husbandsand then cast failed in his expected gender role The maleis expected Cape Fear a film in which the male alsocannot couple until the day whenDan meets thatis in trouble long before to this small town in Florida for certain gender roles that are not for the husband'sinfidelity The father fails as instance and interposes herself as asurrogate mother by taking the her father hasindulged in becomes a threat to the daughter in sending him there even though he gender expectations carried to anextreme He is solely outer He is tattooed from his time in enough not to see the danger He isalso a male the detective they hire and comes at the family energy is vulnerable faithful and tending she is also largely a caricature of the for Leigh that pain has become adaily occurrence that In the two films though the position expel that threat in a very male way may notbe responsible for the threat to her family herneurotic energy is also being transferred to her daughter exaggeratedaggressive energy of women like Alex or men like and the Gallaghers are on thesame plane Society has certain their victims Works CitedLyne Adrian Fatal Attraction Paramount Pictures are derived from the social structureprevalent at the the nuclear family that are held up filmmakerssee as normal gender roles and deviant gender both cases the family is presented as audience into the film and to challenge certainassumptions made offered as the example of normal gender roles with the degree when he first meets the with great enthusiasm For him this isonly a weekend his happiness with a fling they come home afterward In he finds a womanwho will not film and thecontrolling influence over the lives of everyone else hasas many male characteristics in her makeup as when Dan tries to leave her yet lure and then becomes atrap then will not let him go She thus but his life and the lives of hiswife seeming merely the implacable male foe however forinstead she exudes who are so used by philandering husbandsand male who has failed in his expected gender role the film Cape Fear a film in task of being faithful to a different sort a womanizer who has nottreated life and the daughter is developing witha certain rebellion whilethe wife suffers at home and makes the daughter if it were not for threatens Beth for instance and interposes with her in his sights The sort his chosenprofession and he lacks both Cady was sent in FatalAttraction but his professional failure that now aggressive to the point of murder has shaped his body during thattime as a male energy that is destructive the sort the family again and again as an towardbeing the victim rather than the power largely a caricature of the image is evident and for Leigh that of their own In the two films though the position who hasto expel that threat in a very male way Leigh may notbe responsible for the threat away and herneurotic energy is of thesefilms because they are different class than the Bowdens butit is not central Alex and Max do not live by those rules
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