Organizational Behavior and Challenges in an Organization
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Organizational Behavior Issues Paper: ABC, Inc. is a competitor of your organization headquartered in a different country on a different continent. ABC has just announced that its shareholders approved the acquisition of your company. As the CEO in the acquired company, you have been asked to start the process of creating the changes necessary to make the merger/acquisition succeed. You are being held accountable for maintaining your organization's performance measures while dealing with the human elements of this situation.
Describe the key challenges that will face the organizations as they merge. To accomplish this, you need to do the following: 1. State the assumptions you will use for your analysis (specifically, the industry for both companies and the country where each company is located). In addition, identify the specific organizations you will be discussing (in other words, select a company that will be "ABC, Inc." for your specific situation). 2. Identify the elements of your organization's culture and your perceptions of the importance of each element for your organization to operate effectively. 3. Using the text reading and University Library resources (at least 3 peer-reviewed sources), identify the key elements of ABC's organizational culture. 4. Assess the challenges in creating cooperation between the two organizations. What elements of national culture need to be taken into account when assessing the challenges of the merger?
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Human Resource Management in the Aftermaths of Mergers and Acquisitions
Mergers and acquisitions have always been one of the strategies used by corporations to expand their operations with the aim of improving their risk return profile and hence their bottom line. However, signing the dotted lines to finalize a merger or acquisition is perhaps the easiest part. In fact, the success of a merger or acquisition is based on much "more than financial considerations" (Greer, 2001, p. 57). Greer (2001) emphasized that success "depends on how well the two organizations' human resources are integrated" (p. 57). Thus, human resource synchronization and integration is the greatest challenge for managers in any merger or acquisition situation. Lastly, in any merger or acquisition the human resource will always pay a price no matter how successful the merger or acquisition is. It is inevitable that there will be jobs becoming redundant.
In order to create seamless human resource integration, I need to identify the key human resource challenges resulting from the proposed merger of the company with ABC, Inc., a competitor. First, I assume that both companies, as direct competitors, work in relatively similar environments. Let's take for example the acquisition of Lenovo, a Chinese computer ...
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