Organizational downsizing and a search deal with effects on workers

In the work life of this time, very fast changing and increasing rivalry necessitates fastly deciding and the capability of keep in step with changing conditions for organizations. Because of the communication system removed the borders of knowledge flows and sharing process, the organizations came face to face with national and international thick rivalry.With the effect of globalization, the common worths are arising in the world which is changing day by day. On the directions of these common worths, the human life is being shaped. This condition is the same for the organizations too. About economical angle, the world is becoming a united whole, which had never been before and got more dependent to each other. In the world and in our country, specially in the crisis and calmness periods, downsizing is the first of the applications which is used by organizations about willing to increase productivity and reduce costs.Rivalry environment, economic, managerial, financial and technical factors are play a part in downsizing that are came out because of globalization. Organizations are willing to increase rivalry superiority with downsizing, which is changing strategy for organizations. Firstly downsizing wills to waylay the decrease of snows, increase the rivalry power and reach high level productivity. But to focus on customer necessities and expectations, downsizing is being a necessity.Dismiss the worker is the first application, which is firstly being remembered when people hear downsizing term. The power of changing which is reaching high levels day by day, causes to lose one?s job for many people and for the other people causes to live with the fear of loosing job. Especially in the conditions of Turkey, the biggest cost for the organizations is the manpower costs.If we think that in Turkey, especially workers are affected by the downsizing, the downsizing has important results on workers that are keep working and the workers that are left the organization. Because of this in this research we focused on; downsizing, the variety of downsizing, reactions of workers to downsizing and the importance of human resources management on this term.