The Face-to-Face Delivery of Downsizing Decisions in UK Public Sector Organizations: The envoy role

Ian Ashman

Public Management Review, 2015, vol. 17, issue 1, 108-128

Abstract: In the wake of current UK public sector retrenchment, this article introduces a role that may be important to successful restructuring management, referred to here as the 'downsizing envoy'. It involves delivering the news of downsizing decisions, face to face, with the victims and then dealing with the repercussions. After a review of the relevant, but limited, literature the findings are presented from interviews with twenty-four envoys drawn from public sector organizations. They indicate that the envoy role is emotionally demanding and that the public sector context invokes additional pressures that may not occur in other sectors.

Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1080/14719037.2013.785583

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