Executive overview of downsizing.

Why be interested in downsizing ? Only restructure(dismiss employee etc...) is not downsizing. But generally said "Downsizing is equal to dismiss". The enterprise has pursued own sales. The downsizing effect is that the enterprise not only growing organization but also efficiency one, as downsizing of computers.　But many cases, downsizing is largely dismiss employee. Think of employee's point, dismiss is not best method. What is the best method of downsizing?

1. We discuss the question why "downsizing" is now regarded as important? In Japan, during the "bubble economy", a scale of company have become large. But now, the large scale company require for "downsizing". In America, "downsizing" is regarded as important in bad days, too.
2. A difference of "downsizing" between a standpoint of workers and owners. Owners see it as a way to increase efficiency and economy. Workers see it as a threat to their jobs.
3. The situation for workers who have been "downsized". Particularly social security for the workers. This is serious to older and unskilled employees.
4. We talk about the workers who remain at a company. About their morale and their working conditions.
5. We believe "downsizing" affect a society. What kind of effect rise in society.
6. We examine a true of "downsizing".

Our conclusion

Business and industry are undergoing great change. Companies are downsizing, restructuring,and re engineering. The advantage of 'downsizing of companies is, basically considered to be cost cutting. Moreover, leading financial executives think utilizing downsizing, re engineering as a means of increasing revenues, rather than cost reduction alone. However, some corporate leaders think downsizing, restructuring and re engineering strategies are offering diminishing returns. On the other hand, for workers, downsizing is only 'downsizing', threat their jobs. And is also social problem. Under the present conditions, downsizing is generally regarded as a way of dismissal, existence of differences like that is natural. But originally, the purpose of downsizing is, re- construction into new organization by making corpulent one lighter and simpler, pursue of productivity increase. So, never, just dismissing to cut personnel expenses. Now, downsizing is necessary. When management proceed downsizing, they must do it with drawing out worker's commitment to their jobs, not impose, planning alignment with business, organization and information technology strategies. Not only, dismissal. They must let workers realize that. Workers should also change their consciousness toward company's downsizing plan. Downsizing cannot be proceeded only by one side, needs mutual understanding between management and workers.

Grammatical corrections and comments

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Why should we be interested in downsizing? Only restructure (dismiss employee etc...) is not downsizing. But generally said "Downsizing is equal to being dismissed ". The enterprise has pursued its' own sales. The downsizing effect is that the enterprise is not only a growing organization but also trying to become an efficient one (such as downsizing of computers). 　 In many cases, downsizing is largely used to dismiss employees. Think of the employee's point of view , being dismissed is not the best method. What is the best method of downsizing?	** "Why be" is not a good use of English "Why should we" is better. ** "to being dismissed" not "to be.." ** "enterprise is.." requires the verb "is", otherwise your sentence has no verb. ** "trying to become an efficient.." is clearer than "also efficiency" and you should place parentheses () around "downsizing computers.." because this is used as an example (in English, termed a "parenthetical phrase"). ** You included some Japanese double-byte characters in your report. You cannot do this when creating an international report using e-mail because most e-mail systems worldwide do not support double-byte characters. ** "used to" I agree that downsizing is sometimes used as an excuse just to dismiss employees...but you need the verb clearly stated. ** "point of view" is an idiom, not "point".
We will discuss the question why "downsizing" is now regarded as important? In Japan, during the "bubble economy", the scale of companies became large. Now, large scale companies may require "downsizing". In America, "downsizing" is regarded as important in bad days, too. The difference of "downsizing" from the standpoint of workers and owners. Owners see it as a way to increase efficiency and economy. Workers see it as a threat to their jobs. The situation for workers who have been "downsized"; particularly related to social security for the workers. This is serious for older and unskilled employees. We will report about the workers who remain at a company and about their morale and their working conditions. We believe "downsizing" effects a society. What kind of effects rise in society. We want to examine the true meaning of "downsizing".	** "will discuss" and not "discuss" ** "the scale...", you need the definite article "the" and not the indefinite article "a" because you are discussing a definite thing. ** "became large" is the past tense of "to become"..not "have become". ** Avoid starting a sentence with "But".."Now" is ok or "Currently". ** You cannot say "large scale companies require downsizing"...You should say "may require" because not all companies may need downsizing. ** "The difference"..and not "A difference"...a definite thing..these differences. ** "from the standpoint..." is almost an idiom. "between a" is used incorrectly. ** "downsized"; particularly ".. becomes one sentence separated by a "; (colon)" because the 2 ideas are very closely related. ** "for older..." needs "for" (e.g. This is a problem FOR workers; or; The boy broke his leg. This was a serious problem for him and for his parents..." ** "We will report" or "We will research"...and not "talk". Avoid verbs related to speaking when writing. **"company and about" becomes one sentence separated by "and". ** "effects" and not "affects". This is a common mistake made by native speakers. ** "We examine a true of "downsizing" wasn't a complete sentence.
Our conclusion Business and industry are undergoing great changes. Companies are downsizing, restructuring, and re-engineering. The advantage of downsizing for companies is basically considered to be cost cutting. Moreover, leading financial executives think utilizing downsizing and re-engineering as a means of increasing revenues, rather than cost reduction alone is useful . However, some corporate leaders think downsizing, restructuring and re engineering strategies are offering diminishing returns. On the other hand, for workers, downsizing is only 'downsizing' and threatens their jobs. Downsizing is also a social problem. Under the present conditions, downsizing is generally regarded as a way of dismissal, so that the existence of differences like that is natural. Originally, the purpose of downsizing was for the, re-construction into a new organization by making a large organization smaller and simpler in order to pursue productivity increases. So, originally,not only dismissing to cut personnel expenses. Now, downsizing may be necessary. When management proceeds with downsizing, they must do it by drawing out the worker's commitment to their jobs and involve workers in the planning alignment of the business, and organization and information technology strategies rather than have management impose their opinions on the workers. Not only, dismissal. They must let workers realize that. Workers should also change their consciousness toward a company's downsizing plan. Downsizing cannot be proceeded only by one side, needs mutual understanding between management and workers.	** "changes" should be plural ** "downsizing for companies" requires "for" or "to" ** No ",(comma)" after "is" ** "downsizing and ..." requires "and" when you have two items you wish to connect together. ** The sentence starting "Moreover, leading financial ....think utilizing.." is not a complete sentence. You do not have a verb for what the financial executives "think about". (e.g. "He thought that many things good" is incorrect..because the phrase after "that" requires a verb..."He thought that many things were good" ) We added "is useful" ** "and threatens" is better than "threat their jobs" which is incorrect use of English grammar although your idea is clear. ** Avoid starting a sentence with "And".."Downsizing is.." ** You need "a" with "a social problem"..because in this case "social problem" is used in a general and not specific (definite) way. You cannot say "the social problem" because that means that "downsizing" is the ONLY social problem. ** "so that.." connects the idea clearly. ** "Originally" and not "But originally"..avoid using "but" and "and" at the beginning of sentences.. ** "was" past tense and "for the reconstruction..." You need "for the"...You cannot say "was reconstruction"..You are really saying "the purpose ...was for... ** "into a new organization" requires "a", the indefinite article because you are speaking about any company ** "a large company" and not a "corpulent" ...use SIMPLE English that everyone can understand. (e.g. "The little boy was sitting in the chair and constantly moving around. The teacher said, "Do you find it is a major requirement to relieve yourself of unwanted foodstuffs?" And the little boy looked at the teacher without understanding what he was saying. The little girl next to the boy said, "Do you have to go to the bathroom?""....See what we mean by saying it in simple ways. ** use "may be" because all companies do not downsize ** The sentence beginning with "When management..." has been changed to clear English. In your original sentence, you placed "not impose" in the middle of the sentence. This has been moved to the second thought of the sentence. I believe the restructuring of the sentence is what you mean. However, because the original sentence wasn't completely clear, please inform me if your meaning is different. ** notice the use of the definite article "the" and the indefinite article "a". When referring to a specific thing, use "the"; when referring to a general thing or idea, use "a". It is a difficult concept but one you can learn.

The following questions and comments should help you to continue and complete your report. If you wish to discuss any of these questions with the instructor, please contact him by e-mail. In addition to the questions listed here, you can, of course, think of your questions to complete you work.

If you use an article from a magazine, newspaper or online (Internet) source, you need to identify where that source came from. We will talk more about "sources of information" in class meetings.

What major Japanese corporations have become involved in downsizing recently. Do the Japanese corporations say that downsizing is used to make a company more efficient or do they say downsizing is used to reduce costs (dismissing employees).

Try and locate several companies in the United States and/or Japan that have gone through the experience of downsizing. What were the original reasons for downsizing? Did the company become more prosperous after downsizing? In other words, did downsizing help the company or did downsizing make the companies position worse?

IBM used to have 450,000 employees throughout all of its location, worldwide. Now, the company has less than 300,000 employees. For many years IBM said they would never dismiss an employee. However, where have the 150,000 IBM employees gone? See if you can find some data on the position of IBM over the last 10 years. IBM was once the most profitable company in the entire world. What has happened to IBM and why was it forced to re-structure and downsize?

Have Japanese companies "downsized" their employees more than in the U.S.? Or, have Japanese companies kept the original number of workers but forced the workers to take a pay in salary? Try and find this out. The Japanese publication "Nikkei" might be able to help you with this question.

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