ABSTRACT
This research work is a study study of Enugu State Civil Service. Survey research
was used, which helped to standardize the researchers questions to the respondents.
The researcher made use of both primary and secondary data to achieve the
comprehensiveness of the study. To determine the sample size of the study, the
researcher used the Burley’s rule.
The key findings of the study are that
retrenchment is perceived differently with a negative perception as an
organizational change and as well workers always try to resist it due to the
uncertainly it comes with, it ridicule permanence of serve and create job insecurity
and also dampened the morale of workers. Recommendations made include that a
counseling section should be created as a structure to deal with psychological and
emotional trauma of the retrenchment exercise, settlement of retrenched workers
with all entitlement should be immediate to enable them found another means of
livelihood and also the involvement of stakeholders (Labour Union) in decisionmaking.
