Downsizing in Canadian Government: Recruitment and Selection

Downsizing in Canadian government
Recruitment and selection
Canada
6/18/2018

Executive summary
In the modern era human resource management has many issues related to the recruitment
and selection of the desired candidates. In the recent years downsizing of employees in
various organisation has been the subject of research. In last few years Canadian government
is also performing such downsizing activities in some of its department this downsizing in
Canadian government is due to the digitalization of several departments. In this report
thorough discussion about downsizing and its alternatives is described. In Canadian economy
effectiveness of these alternatives is much more to avoid such situations. Thisb report will
make it understood to the readers that what is downsizing, what are its alternatives and their
effectiveness as well.

Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
Case study..............................................................................................................................3
External and internal factor analysis......................................................................................3
SWOT analysis.......................................................................................................................4
HRM issues................................................................................................................................5
Legal considerations...............................................................................................................6
Alternatives................................................................................................................................6
Recommendations......................................................................................................................8
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................9
References................................................................................................................................10

Introduction
Case study
Marita Smith, victim of the case study, works as a clerk in a government department. This
department is facing the problem of downsizing. Sometimes having more number of
employees working under an organization than that of required at that particular time. In such
cases organization has to make some really difficult decision regarding restructuring the
organization in terms of human resource management (Datta, Guthrie, Basuil, & Pandey,
2010). To overcome such issues human resource management has to perform organization
downsizing process. In this process organization terminate its employees who are not so
worthy to have them in the organization. This downsizing affects for the victims as well as
the survivors (Small, et al, 2014). Victims are those who involuntarily lose their job and
survivors are those who have to bear the extra workload of terminated employees
(Bhuvaneswari, et al, 2011). In this case Marita is the victim as she has to leave her job
because of the department downsizing.
External and internal factor analysis
External and internal factors that may influence an organization and its operations can be
analysed with the help of PESTAL analysis of that particular organization (Snider, da
Silveira, & Balakrishnan, 2009). In the given scenario Alberta, Canada Government is the
organization that is undergoing the downsizing of its several departments (Fertel, Bahn,
Vaillancourt, & Waaub, 2013). In this context the PESTAL analysis of the Alberta
government is done as following
Political aspects: Country has a multi-party system that requires a strong co-operation
between parties to maintain the government operation effective and more efficient. Lack of