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Table of Contents

                            Acknowledgments
Executive Summary
Introduction
Lessons from the Management Literature:  Reduce, Restructure or Rethink the Organization?
	Understanding and responding to organizational upheaval
	Organizational effects of downsizing
	Effective approaches to downsizing
	The Do’s and Don’ts of Downsizing
		Strategic Human Resource Planning
		Communication
		Implementing Staff Reductions
		Supporting the Staff that Remain
CGIAR Practices to Manage Workforce Reductions
	Planning and preparing for staff reductions
	Communications
	Making staff and cost reductions
	Assisting staff that depart and staff that remain
	Best practices
Staffing Trends in the Future Harvest Centers, 1995-2001
	Total Staff
	Distribution of staff by position category
	Additional gender and diversity indicators among IRS
	Gender trends among IRS and NRS
	NRS position distribution by gender
	IRS and NRS changes by age
	Rates and causes of staff turnover
Conclusions
	Principle findings
	Recommendations
Bibliography
Appendices
	
		APPENDIX 1. Questionnaire for CGIAR Centers Re downsizing Practices
		APPENDIX 2.  Worksheet for recording IRS staffing changes
		APPENDIX 3.  Worksheet for recording NRS staffing changes
			
				
		APPENDIX 4.  Summary table – Total IRS by Future
		APPENDIX 5.  Summary table – Total NRS by Future
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