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Top2. The Staff Restructuring Process: Definition And Contextualization
The authors dealing with this topic have generally found that the effects caused by staff restructuring on business activity are not good. However, these negative data may be influenced by other factors (Guthrie and Datta, 2008) that mask or confuse the actual outcome of restructuring. As explained by these authors, staff restructuring processes lead to different results in different situations.
Precisely this was proved in the thorough analyses performed by McMahan, Pandey and Martinson (2012) and by De Mouse and Dai (2013), which bring together the outcomes of numerous empirical works where researchers have identified positive effects, negative effects, and no effects whatsoever.
Two studies can be mentioned as illustrative of these different results being obtained in various situations (Fernández Sánchez, 2006; and Fernández and Manresa, 2012) which precisely confirmed that for firms located in Spain during the periods 2003-2005 and 2008-2010. Results improved with any of type of restructuring, regardless of whether they were measured subjectively (according to managers’ opinions) or objectively (based on the economic data corresponding to organizations). Nevertheless, another study in the same field –though referring to the period 1995-2001– identified negative results (Muñoz-Bullon and Sánchez-Bueno, 2010).