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Organizations merge and grow bigger and differentiate, which can cause problems in the functional structure. What problems can arise and how should organizations may respond to these problems?

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Approximately 340 words discusses problems, how they grow bigger, issues that arise from mergers.

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Organizations merge and grow bigger and differentiate, which can cause problems in the functional structure. What problems can arise and how should organizations may respond to these problems?

Organizations merge and grow bigger and differentiate. If the companies that merge do not have a plan before they initiate the merge, there will be many problems. What needs to be done is both organizations have to lay out what their missions and vision statements are along with defining their organizational culture. The reason organizations merge is to grow bigger and better especially if one or both are ...

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