Learning Reflection

Part of the class we talked about different ways to approach reducing surplus. One that most everyone in the class talked about was downsizing. It is scary to be in an organization where they are planning on downsizing because that could mean either you or someone else would lose their job. For other employees it means they keep their jobs, which also means they need to work extra hard and be a better employee to be able to keep working in the organization.

Another way is pay reduction. As I was thinking in this term, I thought that pay reduction was better than downsizing because in this way you are not being fired, but just working fewer hours, which means less money. But, at least the employee has a job. With this economy that we are living right now, it is hard to lose your job because trying to get another just get harder and harder. There are not jobs available. It is really hard, but one must keeps trying to survive in one way or another.