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Thesaurus search results for 'RESTRUCTURING': 10 results found.


CORPORATE RESTRUCTURING (Search for related entries in the library)

Scope Note: The reconfiguration of operations within a business or corporate organization. Often involves fiscal restructuring such as changes to pay, benefits and bonus structures, restructuring of work oganization such as layoffs or contracting-out.

ECONOMIC RESTRUCTURING (Search for related entries in the library)

Scope Note: Substantial changes in the organization and priority of economic sectors in a given context (e.g., the decline of the manufacturing sector in North America), along with accompanying socio-cultural changes.

EONOMIC RESTRUCTURING 

    GLOBAL RESTRUCTURING (Search for related entries in the library)

    HEALTH CARE RESTRUCTURING (Search for related entries in the library)

    Scope Note: The reconfiguration of operations within the health care industry. Can include contracting out of services, privatization and marketization.

    POLITICAL RESTRUCTURING 

    RESTRUCTURING (Search for related entries in the library)

    STATE RESTRUCTURING (Search for related entries in the library)

    UNION RESTRUCTURING (Search for related entries in the library)

    Scope Note: In response to declining membership, unions are restructuring through a variety of strategies which include union amalgamations and mergers, and union revitalization and renewal initiatives.

    WELFARE STATE RESTRUCTURING (Search for related entries in the library)

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