อัตราการเติบโตของนักเรียนต่างชาติของออสเตรเลียในช่วงมากกว่า10ปีที่ผ่านมามีอัตราการเติบโตเพิ่มขึ้นโดยเฉพาะในปี2002-2009 อัตราการเติบโตได้เพิ่มขึ้นเป็นdouble แต่อย่างไรก็ตามตั้งแต่ปี2010สัดส่วนของนักเรียนต่างชาติมีอัตราการเติบโตที่ลดลง ซึ่งมีผลกระทบจากปัจจัยภายนอก จากอัตราการเติบโตที่ลดลงนำไปสู่นโยบายการบริหารจัดการhuman resource ทางมหาวิทยาลัยต้องมีการปรับลดจำนวนพนักงานนำไปสู่downsizing
Employment downsizing is often implemented during economic downturns
as a reactive, tactical action. The most successful organizations, however,
use downsizing more strategically as part of an overall workforce strategy.
Layoffs become just one tool in a portfolio of alternatives to improve firm
performance. Management may view this as an opportunity to enhance the
organization’s medium- and long-term agility through well-planned and
targeted coaching, change and career-management interventions.1
Cisco Systems, a company that has changed its workforce strategy in recent
years, laid off 20 percent of its workforce in 2001 due to tough times. In
2008, the firm implemented employment downsizing only as a last resort,
after deploying several other alternatives. The new, measured approach
was more consistent with Cisco’s long-term talent management strategy of
building internal talent rather than buying it in the external labor market.2
This report will explore why downsizing happens and how to do it right. It
will also address the alternatives to downsizing and the consequences of a
downsized workforce.
Employment downsizing has become a fact of working life as companies
struggle to cut costs and adapt to changing market demands. But does this
practice achieve the desired results? Studies have tracked the performance of
downsizing firms versus nondownsizing firms for as long as nine years after a
downsizing event. The findings: As a group, the downsizers never outperform
the nondownsizers. Companies that simply reduce headcounts, without
making other changes, rarely achieve the long-term success they desire. In
contrast, stable employers do everything they can to retain their employees.
More than three million Americans lost their jobs in 2008. However, 81
percent of the top 100 companies in Fortune’s 2009 list of “Best Employers
to Work For” had no layoffs that year.
Employment downsizing is often implemented during economic downturns
as a reactive, tactical action. The most successful organizations, however,
use downsizing more strategically as part of an overall workforce strategy.
Layoffs become just one tool in a portfolio of alternatives to improve firm
performance. Management may view this as an opportunity to enhance the
organization’s medium- and long-term agility through well-planned and
targeted coaching, change and career-management interventions.1