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Reason | Extended mass layoff events | Total business process | Core processes | Support processes | |||||||
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Strat. Mgmt. | Procurement, logistics, distribution | Ops. | Product development | Marketing, sales, account management | Customer and after-sales service | General managment and firm infra-structure | Human resource management | Technology and process development | |||
Second quarter 2010 (p) | |||||||||||
Total business process | 1,851 | 2,307 | 12 | 148 | 1,479 | 49 | 84 | 137 | 297 | 71 | 30 |
Business demand | 604 | 815 | 2 | 40 | 565 | 16 | 24 | 36 | 89 | 27 | 16 |
Contract cancellation | 49 | 95 | - | 7 | 43 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 20 | 7 | 6 |
Contract completion | 262 | 301 | - | 8 | 253 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 16 | 6 | 2 |
Domestic competition | 3 | 6 | - | - | 3 | - | 1 | - | 2 | - | - |
Excess inventory/ saturated market | (2) | 4 | - | 1 | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - |
Import competition | (2) | 3 | - | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - |
Slack work/ insufficient demand/non-seasonal business slowdown | 287 | 406 | 2 | 23 | 264 | 10 | 11 | 23 | 51 | 14 | 8 |
Organizational changes | 109 | 219 | 3 | 15 | 91 | 7 | 14 | 24 | 47 | 11 | 7 |
Business- ownership change | 29 | 63 | 1 | 4 | 24 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 14 | 4 | 6 |
Reorgan- ization or restructuring of company | 80 | 156 | 2 | 11 | 67 | 6 | 11 | 18 | 33 | 7 | 1 |
Financial issues | 112 | 210 | 5 | 18 | 91 | 6 | 14 | 13 | 45 | 12 | 6 |
Bankruptcy | 13 | 29 | 1 | 1 | 11 | - | 2 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 1 |
Cost control/cost cutting/ increase profitability | 58 | 101 | 3 | 11 | 44 | 3 | 8 | 4 | 22 | 2 | 4 |
Financial difficulty | 41 | 80 | 1 | 6 | 36 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 17 | 6 | 1 |
Production specific | 11 | 24 | 1 | 2 | 11 | - | 1 | - | 4 | 4 | 1 |
Disaster/Safety | 11 | 14 | - | 1 | 8 | - | 3 | - | 1 | 1 | - |
Seasonal | 757 | 1,009 | 1 | 72 | 701 | 19 | 28 | 63 | 109 | 16 | - |
Other/ Miscellaneous | 247 | 16 | - | - | 12 | 1 | - | 1 | 2 | - | - |
Second quarter 2009 (r) | |||||||||||
Total business process | 3,395 | 4,320 | (3) | 332 | 2,565 | 112 | 166 | 161 | 655 | 182 | 147 |
Business demand | 1,457 | 2,161 | (3) | 149 | 1,392 | 47 | 55 | 50 | 313 | 78 | 77 |
Contract cancellation | 78 | 133 | (3) | 9 | 74 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 26 | 6 | 7 |
Contract completion | 310 | 360 | (3) | 12 | 301 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 28 | 5 | 5 |
Domestic competition | - | - | (3) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Excess inventory/ saturated market | 25 | 47 | (3) | 6 | 25 | 3 | - | - | 7 | 1 | 5 |
Import competition | 8 | 23 | (3) | 5 | 8 | 1 | 1 | - | 4 | 2 | 2 |
Slack work/ insufficient demand/non-seasonal business slowdown | 1,036 | 1,598 | (3) | 117 | 984 | 36 | 49 | 42 | 248 | 64 | 58 |
Organizational changes | 170 | 372 | (3) | 35 | 148 | 9 | 26 | 23 | 84 | 29 | 18 |
Business- ownership change | 32 | 69 | (3) | 5 | 27 | - | 5 | 6 | 17 | 6 | 3 |
Reorgan- ization or restructuring of company | 138 | 303 | (3) | 30 | 121 | 9 | 21 | 17 | 67 | 23 | 15 |
Financial issues | 295 | 665 | (3) | 61 | 252 | 28 | 51 | 43 | 135 | 55 | 40 |
Bankruptcy | 51 | 157 | (3) | 18 | 49 | 3 | 13 | 11 | 34 | 19 | 10 |
Cost control/cost cutting/ increase profitability | 169 | 336 | (3) | 31 | 137 | 22 | 27 | 18 | 67 | 15 | 19 |
Financial difficulty | 75 | 172 | (3) | 12 | 66 | 3 | 11 | 14 | 34 | 21 | 11 |
Production specific | 14 | 43 | (3) | 7 | 14 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 3 |
Disaster/Safety | 3 | 2 | (3) | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Seasonal | 757 | 973 | (3) | 74 | 707 | 22 | 29 | 33 | 98 | 9 | 1 |
Other/ Miscellaneous | 699 | 104 | (3) | 6 | 50 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 18 | 7 | 8 |
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NOTE: Dash represents zero. |
Last Modified Date: August 20, 2010