Executive Summary

People Issues in Outsourcing

Posted September 30, 2000 | Leadership | Leadership |

Outsourcing affects everyone in the organization. Business decisions, financial considerations, and strategic directions all drive the decision to outsource, but people will make it work or let it flounder. Managers must be able to observe what people are experiencing, feeling, and thinking and how this is affecting everyone's efforts. Managers should then act to help people make outsourcing work.

About The Author
Dwayne Phillips
Dwayne Phillips has been a computer and systems engineer with the US government since 1980. He coauthored It Sounded Good When We Started, Working with People on Projects with Roy O'Bryan and wrote The Software Project Manager's Handbook, Principles That Work at Work , now in its second edition. Dwayne Phillips can be reached at d.phillips at computer.org. His Web site ishttp://dwaynephillips.net.
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