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Socially responsible restructuring
Effective strategies for supporting redundant workers

Glossary of selected terms

American Conference Board – is an organisation that represents business
interests in the United States.

Career guidance – services and activities intended to assist individuals of any
age and at any point throughout their lives, to make educational, training and
occupational choices and to manage their careers. Such services may be found
in schools, universities and colleges, in training institutions, in public employment
services, in the workplace, in the voluntary or community sector and in the private
sector. The activities may take place on an individual or group basis and may be
face-face or at a distance (including help lines and web-based services). They
include career information provision (in print, ICT-based and other forms),
assessment and self-assessment tools, counselling interviews, career education
programmes (to help individuals develop their self awareness, opportunity
awareness, and career management skills), taster programmes (to sample
options before choosing them), work search programmes, and transition
services.

Career guidance outcomes – taken here to be the impact of guidance services on
the skills, knowledge and attitudes which facilitate informed and rational
occupational and educational decision-making and achievements.

Career guidance providers – providers of guidance services which, at point of
provision, may be found in schools, universities and colleges, in training
institutions, in public employment services, in the workplace, in the voluntary or
community sector and in the private sector. Different funding routes support
different forms and points of provision, within different national traditions and
contexts.

CIPD – Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development

Downsizing – reduction of overall workforce size usually at enterprise or
establishment level through dynamic measures such as recruitment freezes,
internal redeployment (to other sites or functions), voluntary or compulsory
redundancy to reduce overall ‘head count’ (number of employees). This may also
be referred to in some corporate restructuring contexts as ‘right-sizing’.

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