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November 2, 2008: Communicate to help employees anxious about economy
Sustaining employee morale
A useful business-focused article on ways to maintain a psychologically healthy and productive workplace during a downturn.

Small business: Employee morale during economic slowdown
Although the author focuses on small businesses, the insights are useful for any organization.

How to stay afloat in a downturn
This article takes a more complete view, including employee morale along with process management, cost analysis, and planning.

Keeping a cool head and maintaining employee morale during tough economic times
This brief posting is interesting in and of itself, and also provides links to many other promising articles.

Small manufacturers: Managing your business in an economic downturn
Again, this article is targeted to a specific segment, but its advice on focusing on core business, measuring the value of customers and employees, communication, and planning transcend the audience.

Managing businesses during economic downturns
This more academic article goes in-depth on causes of downturns, negative effects on businesses,and tactics to manage them.

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