{"id":25189,"date":"2023-07-23T23:55:06","date_gmt":"2023-07-23T23:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/assume-you-are-the-hr-director-for-a-medium-sized-regional-retailer-that-employs-4000-employees-in-five-5-different-southern-states-how-would-you-go-about-rightsizing-the-firm\/"},"modified":"2023-07-23T23:55:06","modified_gmt":"2023-07-23T23:55:06","slug":"assume-you-are-the-hr-director-for-a-medium-sized-regional-retailer-that-employs-4000-employees-in-five-5-different-southern-states-how-would-you-go-about-rightsizing-the-firm","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/assume-you-are-the-hr-director-for-a-medium-sized-regional-retailer-that-employs-4000-employees-in-five-5-different-southern-states-how-would-you-go-about-rightsizing-the-firm\/","title":{"rendered":"Assume you are the HR director for a medium sized, regional retailer that employs 4,000 employees in five (5) different Southern states. How would you go about \u201crightsizing\u201d the firm?  What are the ethical and legal considerations?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Topic: Assume you are the HR director for a medium sized, regional retailer that employs 4,000 employees in five different Southern states. There are a total of 16 brick and mortar stores, as well an an e-commerce division. Due to economic conditions, changes in consumer shopping habits, rising costs of goods due to inflation, and increased competition, the firm will have to close four of its stores, resulting in significant layoffs. How would you go about rightsizing the firm? What are the ethical and legal considerations.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Essay should be 400-500 words. Please cite sources used at the end of essay.&nbsp;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Topic: Assume you are the HR director for a medium sized, regional retailer that employs 4,000 employees in five different Southern states. There are a total of 16 brick and mortar stores, as well an an e-commerce division. Due to economic conditions, changes in consumer shopping habits, rising costs of goods due to inflation, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[706],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/25189"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/25189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=25189"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=25189"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=25189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}