Healing the Wounds: Overcoming the Trauma of Layoffs and Revitalizing Downsized Organizations

5.6. Lack of Management Communication

Although five years had passed, the thirst for information and the survivor blaming phenomenon continued to be important:

• "People are interested in having a company make money because that's how we get paid, but a lot of management's concept of communication is to put out a financial report. There's a lot more to it than that." (professional/technical employee)

• "We call them sunshine meetings because it comes across like everything is wonderful, and two weeks later there's another layoff." (production employee)

• "I think [lack of communication is] a true dynamic with all downsizing. [But] some management withholds information for purposes of power, security. It's threatening for them to let go of too much information." ...