Word: brockner
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...extra work you must take on and even envy of those who get to leave such a sullen environment - that's not much cause for celebration. "Companies use the word affected with people who lose their jobs - the implication being that the people who remain aren't," says Joel Brockner, a social psychologist and professor of management at Columbia Business School. "They're very much affected." (See the top 10 financial collapses...
Companies, for their part, can be oblivious. "I was talking to a senior executive at a major bank, and he was very proud about their generous severance package," says Columbia's Brockner. "I said, 'That's great. What have you done for the people who have remained?' It was a conversation-ending question." The anguish may be real, but good luck talking about...
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