In this paper, we examine the impact of top managers' social class on their attitude towards employee downsizing. Mobilizing Bourdieu's concepts of social class as a unique social position defined by the combination of economic, cultural, and social capital, we develop hypotheses about the effects of different capital endowments, which we test with unique data on more than 2500 top managers in Germany. We find that both higher economic and higher social capital increase openness towards employee dismissals, while higher cultural capital reduces it. We also find that the overall effect of a top manager's social position is an aggregate of the effects of the individual types of capital: Managers with high cultural, low social and low economic capital are least open to employee dismissals, while those with low cultural, high social and high economic capital are most open – with the other combinations lying somewhere between the two extremes.

在本文中，我们研究了高层管理者的社会阶层对他们对裁员的态度的影响。我们运用布迪厄的社会阶级概念作为由经济、文化和社会资本组合定义的独特社会地位，提出关于不同资本禀赋影响的假设，并使用德国 2500 多名高级管理人员的独特数据对其进行测试。我们发现，较高的经济资本和较高的社会资本都会增加对解雇员工的开放性，而较高的文化资本会降低这种开放性。我们还发现，高层管理人员社会地位的总体影响是个体资本类型影响的总和：文化资本高、社会资本低和经济资本低的经理对解雇员工的开放程度最低，而文化资本低、