| 释义 |
outplacement, n. orig. U.S.
(stress variable)
[f. outplace v. + -ment; cf. placement n.]
The provision of assistance to redundant employees (esp. at a senior level) in finding new employment, esp. as a benefit provided by the employer directly or through a specialist service; hence euphem., the discharging of an employee through redundancy; also, the state or condition of being outplaced. Freq. attrib.
1970Daily Tel. 10 July 4/6 Employers with unwanted executives..resort to ‘the dehiring process’ or ‘executive outplacement’. 1970Time 14 Sept. 83/2 The outplacement firms have their critics. Some industrial psychologists feel that an executive who has been fired needs the determination to reassess his abilities and find a job on his own. 1977Time May 328/1 These half dozen or so organizations, known in the doublespeak world of consulting as ‘out-placement’ or ‘de-hiring’ firms. 1983T. Heald Networks xi. 215 Because nowadays..the outplacement people are nervous of promising what they can't deliver, they ‘help people find jobs for themselves’. 1984Times 5 July 27/1 The concept of outplacement, which comes from the United States, is a euphemism which might straightforwardly be described as severance. 1987Sunday Times 26 July 69/1 Career counselling—or ‘outplacement’, as the service is called when it is pitched instead at companies that are trying to chop senior executives as mercifully as possible. |