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The Headcount Solution: How to Cut Compensation Costs and Keep Your Best People
by N. Fredric Crandall, Marc J. Wallace, Jr. et al.	ISBN:0071402993
McGraw-Hill 2003 (237 pages)
Take your company from crisis to recovery--without losing your best people.

Table of Contents
	The Headcount Solution—How to Cut Compensation Costs and Keep Your Best People
	Preface
	Part One - The Headcount Dilemma
	Chapter 1	-	Why the Easy Solution to a Business Crisis—Layoffs—Is Not Necessarily the Best Solution
	Chapter 2	-	What Companies Are Doing to Cut Costs and Keep Their Best People
	Chapter 3	-	Leadership During a Crisis—How to Maintain Morale and Keep Your Best People
	Part Two - The Headcount Solution
	Chapter 4	-	Step 1—Prepare Your Organization for What’s in Store
	Chapter 5	-	Step 2—Plan for Three Rounds of Compensation Cost Cutting
	Chapter 6	-	Step 3—Decide Whom to Cut and Whom to Keep
	Chapter 7	-	Step 4—Implement Across-The-Board Cuts
	Chapter 8	-	Step 5—Implement Alternative Work Arrangements
	Chapter 9	-	Step 6—Implement Layoffs
	Chapter 10	-	Step 7—Help Survivors Cope and Get Back to Business
	Appendix A	-	Sample Employment Termination Agreement for an Individual 40 Years of Age or Older
	Appendix B	-	Sample Employment Termination Agreement to Be Used for More Than One Individual 40 Years of Age or Older
	Appendix C	-	Sample Speech— Announcing a Company Crisis (Round 1 of Cost Cutting)
	Appendix D	-	Sample Speech—Announcing Alternative Work Arrangements (Round 2 of Cost Cutting)
	Appendix E	-	Sample Speech—Layoff Announcement (Round 3 of Cost Cutting)
	Glossary
	Index
	List of Figures
	List of Tables