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Productive and Counterproductive Behaviors
Monique Cone
PSY428
August 2, 2010
Antonio Borrello
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Productive and Counterproductive Behaviors
"There are a lot of issues that the organization will be facing during an acquisition. To ensure the success of the acquisition, the human elements that will arise out of this acquisition must be addressed. Jex, and Britt (2008) stated that these human elements can be categorized into four categories. They are communications, corporate culture, change, and stress. In this paper, we shall take a look at the change category and the strategy" (Jex & Britt, 2008, P. 250) for dealing with these issue.
It has been shown that according to psychoanalytic theory, our identities stem from those people, places, and things that we feel are important in our lives. It follows, then, that the interactions and relationships we form with these people, places, and things are an integral part of our personal growth and development.
Change Management process ITIL
English: Rausand, Marvin. Risk Assessment: Theory,...
Deb, Daryl Conner, Ron Koller: ACMP Change Manage...When change occurs, and these ties are forcibly broken, the result is a sense of helplessness, loss of control over the situation, and a lowered self-image. Employees build expectations that the organization usually fulfills. In turn, the organization expects certain behaviors from the employee based on the way the individual works. The process is called reciprocation. These expectations are called psychological contracts. Psychological contracts have been described in various ways throughout the literature: unstable/dynamic, subjective, unconscious, implicit/unspoken, lived, link between organizations and employees, and employees do not know they are there until they are broken. When one party breaches this contract the other reacts with the intensity of betrayal. The psychoanalytic view and reciprocation described above may be applied to what employees feel when the organization they work for undergoes a major change and decides to merge...