The Headcount Solution 
Subtitle: How to Cut Compensation Costs and Keep Your Best People
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Published: December 16, 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780071402996
First sentence: Most companies will eventually face a business crisis that requires drastic cost reduction, possibly including layoffs.
Description: "The Headcount Solution is the only book that offers managers both effective, cost-cutting alternatives to downsizing and the practical steps necessary to carry out unavoidable layoffs with fairness and compassion. Drawing on their years of experience helping clients restructure their businesses in times of crisis, N. Fredric Crandall and Marc J. Wallace, Jr. explain the basic steps you must take to preserve your people and their skills, competencies, and leadership capabilities in order to put your company back on an even footing with the competition."--Jacket.