MUMBAI, India, March 13 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202611007466 A) filed by Himanshu Gupta; Megha Bhatia; Nisha Agarwal; Aarti Garg; and Swati Rai, Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh, on Jan. 26, for 'ethical workforce reduction using discursive position mapping and contextadaptive hr responsibility practices.'

Inventor(s) include Himanshu Gupta; Megha Bhatia; Nisha Agarwal; Aarti Garg; and Swati Rai.

The application for the patent was published on March 13, under issue no. 11/2026.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "We propose a system and approach to doing organisational downsizing within a responsibility-based managerial governance approach. The proposed solution helps overcome the shortcomings of the traditional downsizing methods, which are mainly fixed on the number of people that should be downsized, and usually fail to consider psychological, procedural, and trust-based implications of the downsizing process to middle management and the employees left behind. This approach involves defining the discursive managerial stands taken in the course of downsizing that include professional execution, loyalty of the employer, empathic human responsibility and critical implementation of layoff. These roles create intrinsic conflicts between business and personal needs of people. The invention also organizes accountability of downsizing under four interconnected areas of responsibility including regulatory compliance, procedural fairness, communication transparency and employment stewardship. The best-fit contextual mechanism is used in which organisations follow different downsizing practices that concur on each of the areas of responsibility based on local institutional, organisational, and societal limits. The system will produce a responsible downsizing plan that will increase middle management participation, dampen the survivor syndrome, increase employee retention, and retain trust in the top leadership. This innovation consequently makes downsizing a comparable organisational governance process which enables transformation of the workforce but remains ethical and maintains organisational sustainability."

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