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Assignment 3: Dismissal Meeting
Due Week 6 and worth 150 points
Imagine that you are an office manager and you have been tasked with the job of coordinating and heading the dismissal meeting for an employee layoff.
Write a six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you:
Propose three (3) ways that a manager can cope with any negative emotions that may accompany an employee layoff.
Describe a step-by-step process of conducting the dismissal meeting.
Determine the compensation that the fictitious company may provide to the separated employee.
Using Microsoft Word or an equivalent such as OpenOffice, create a chart that depicts the timeline of the disbursement of the compensation.
Predict three (3) ways that this layoff may affect the company.
Use at least three (3) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.
Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:
Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
Formulate HRM strategies and policies to recruit, select, place, and retain the most efficient and effective workforce.
Develop effective talent management strategies to recruit and select employees.
Design processes to manage employee performance, retention, and separation.
Analyze laws governing employment and how organizations can ensure ethical practices.
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Running head: DISMISSAL MEETING
Dismissal Meeting
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Dismissal is, in other words, the termination of an employment contract. In most
occasions, employers are faced with this tough decision to make because there is no single
employee who would wish to be dismissed from their jobs especially if they are not well
prepared or rather in instances where the dismissal is done abruptly (Armstrong & Taylor, 2014).
Some of the reasons why employers could end up dismissing an employee include an economic
downturn, redundant positions and most often the performance of the employee at work. Given
the magnitude of negative impact, this has on the employee, dismissal has to be the last resort
once all avenues of solving the issue being handled have failed (Armstrong & Taylor, 2014). As
an office manager tasked with coordinating and heading the dismissal meeting for an employee
layoff, I have to ensure that I use the most appropriate ways to cope with the negative emotions
that are likely to accompany the layoff because they will certainly be there, be in the know
regarding the manner in which the dismissal meeting will be conducted and finally make a
determination of the compensation that my company will provide to the separated employee.
An employee layoff as earlier stated is accompanied by several negative emotions
especially on the part of the employees but more on the manager conducting the layoff.
Employees need to be informed in advance of any impending layoff for them to be
psychologically prepared to at least understand why the company has to make the decision
(Marchington et al., 2016). Even so, some of them will still feel that the layoff is not justified
and so this will take a toll on the manager who needs some coping strategies. To begin with, one
strategy that managers can use is providing support to the victims of the layoff. This could be
through lucrative and attractive severance packages. An employee could be given a package
worth their whole year’s salary for them to be able to run their expenses as they look for other
employment opportunities or rather a new start up for them that fail to get other employment
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opportunities. To make this even simpler, the intention to make a dismissal should be
communicated to the employees early enough and an offer made to anyone who is willing to
leave the organization with a given package. It may surprise management just how many
employees can offer to leave willingly as long as they are given the pac...