Response to McKinley
作者回应对其原文章的评论，强调用员工数量比例衡量精简规模会低估对学习型组织的损害，并指出社会网络映射技术可帮助识别关键员工。
The authors respond to comments on their article “Downsizing in a Learning Organization: Are There Hidden Costs?” They state that the primary purpose of their original article was that the use of head-count ratios to describe magnitudes of downsizing can in some cases result in a gross underestimation of the damaging effects downsizing has on learning organizations. They suggest that managers who do not know of the existence of learning networks or how important an individual's network linkages are can result in the elimination of key individuals during downsizing. They comment on social network mapping technologies as a potential tool to help identify learning networks and how employees are positioned in these networks.