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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 | |||
Third quarter 2010 (p) | |||||||||||
Total business process | 1,297 | 1,498 | 11 | 103 | 958 | 45 | 48 | 96 | 173 | 44 | 20 |
Business demand | 468 | 630 | 5 | 36 | 430 | 21 | 13 | 38 | 58 | 21 | 8 |
Contract cancellation | 32 | 47 | - | 3 | 31 | 2 | - | 1 | 8 | 2 | - |
Contract completion | 235 | 278 | 1 | 10 | 219 | 5 | 5 | 16 | 11 | 7 | 4 |
Domestic competition | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Excess inventory/ saturated market | 3 | 4 | - | - | 3 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - |
Import competition | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Slack work/ insufficient demand/non-seasonal business slowdown | 198 | 301 | 4 | 23 | 177 | 14 | 8 | 21 | 38 | 12 | 4 |
Organizational changes | 72 | 159 | 3 | 14 | 60 | 10 | 9 | 14 | 34 | 9 | 6 |
Business- ownership change | 16 | 40 | 1 | 4 | 13 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 3 | 1 |
Reorgan- ization or restructuring of company | 56 | 119 | 2 | 10 | 47 | 7 | 6 | 12 | 24 | 6 | 5 |
Financial issues | 105 | 222 | 3 | 24 | 93 | 5 | 15 | 20 | 45 | 11 | 6 |
Bankruptcy | 13 | 31 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 1 |
Cost control/cost cutting/ increase profitability | 60 | 140 | 1 | 16 | 54 | 3 | 12 | 12 | 30 | 7 | 5 |
Financial difficulty | 32 | 51 | - | 4 | 28 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 2 | - |
Production specific | (2) | 32 | - | 4 | 14 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 2 | - |
Disaster/Safety | (2) | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Seasonal | 364 | 431 | - | 25 | 348 | 6 | 8 | 16 | 27 | 1 | - |
Other/ Miscellaneous | 270 | 23 | - | - | 12 | - | 1 | 5 | 5 | - | - |
Third quarter 2009 (r) | |||||||||||
Total business process | 2,034 | 2,386 | (3) | 180 | 1,472 | 59 | 77 | 96 | 337 | 91 | 74 |
Business demand | 941 | 1,331 | (3) | 87 | 900 | 24 | 33 | 40 | 163 | 42 | 42 |
Contract cancellation | 48 | 71 | (3) | 3 | 43 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 2 | 4 |
Contract completion | 283 | 331 | (3) | 15 | 276 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 25 | 4 | 2 |
Domestic competition | 4 | 5 | (3) | - | 4 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - |
Excess inventory/ saturated market | 17 | 28 | (3) | 5 | 16 | 3 | 3 | - | 1 | - | - |
Import competition | 3 | 3 | (3) | - | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Slack work/ insufficient demand/non-seasonal business slowdown | 586 | 893 | (3) | 64 | 558 | 18 | 23 | 32 | 126 | 36 | 36 |
Organizational changes | 113 | 248 | (3) | 25 | 91 | 6 | 12 | 21 | 58 | 22 | 13 |
Business- ownership change | 21 | 55 | (3) | 7 | 20 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 11 | 5 | 2 |
Reorgan- ization or restructuring of company | 92 | 193 | (3) | 18 | 71 | 5 | 9 | 15 | 47 | 17 | 11 |
Financial issues | 172 | 351 | (3) | 35 | 160 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 67 | 20 | 15 |
Bankruptcy | 19 | 39 | (3) | 3 | 19 | - | 1 | 2 | 9 | 4 | 1 |
Cost control/cost cutting/ increase profitability | 99 | 202 | (3) | 21 | 91 | 14 | 12 | 11 | 37 | 10 | 6 |
Financial difficulty | 54 | 110 | (3) | 11 | 50 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 21 | 6 | 8 |
Production specific | 15 | 37 | (3) | 3 | 15 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 1 | 2 |
Disaster/Safety | 4 | 6 | (3) | - | 4 | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - |
Seasonal | 286 | 350 | (3) | 24 | 271 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 28 | 3 | - |
Other/ Miscellaneous | 503 | 63 | (3) | 6 | 31 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 11 | 3 | 2 |
(1) Data were reported by all states and the District of Columbia. NOTE: Dash represents zero. |