Examples of cost-cutting

• Thus, the switch to defined contributions is primarily a cost-cutting exercise.

• It was unique in blending a strategy of cost-cutting and concentrated investment.

• Consensus-building strategies may depoliticise a modest cost-cutting program, yet almost by definition they rely upon leaders framing issues around the status quo.

• Respondents did not understand the concepts of strategic alignment very well and this also contributes to a climate of short-term perspectives, cost-cutting and distrust.

• Also in a cost-cutting drive to combat the serious decline in income, the aristocratic retainers were cut from the budget.

• Approximately half saw a contradiction between their professional autonomy and cost-cutting healthcare policies, and approximately two-thirds expressed concern about malpractice suits.

• As objectives become increasingly ideological, seemingly pragmatic aims - for instance cost-cutting measures - develop into social commentaries, value judgements apropos the application and bestowal of citizen's rights.

• Managers, clinicians, and researchers who are prone to organizational flexibility, that is, working in professional and scientific networks, are inclined to set priorities above and beyond cost-cutting.