Organizational Behavioral Application in Mergers.

Essay by b12345University, Master'sA+, November 2003

download word file, 9 pages 2.0

Abstract

The scope of organizational behavior for a manager goes beyond carving strategies for the functioning of the organization, and can extend further during and after acquisitions to extend financial benefits. The merger is the combination of two companies to form a new company. A manager has an important responsibility to develop a leadership plan while keeping human elements that arise from such mergers in mind. To create this balanced equilibrium, the manager uses transition strategies of organizational behavior to keep the vision and goals of the organization while motivating and achieving better individual performances.

Organizational Behavioral Application in Mergers

Many larger companies are moving into new markets by buying smaller companies that already exist in the industry. A merger is a transaction involving two or more corporations in which stock is exchanged, but from which only one corporation survives. Mergers usually occur between firms of somewhat similar size and are usually "friendly."

The resulting firm is likely to have a name derived from its composite firms.

Recently, PeopleSoft announced that its shareholders had approved the acquisition of ORACLE. Instead of the hostile takeover of PeopleSoft by ORACLE, the two are merging. Both companies posses strength in the people management software industry. People Soft, after its acquisition of J.D. Edwards, became the second largest enterprise application software company in the world (People Soft Corporate Backgounder). Oracle, another computer software company, known for its innovations, has recently upgraded technologies to include Identity Management Services (Vijayan, 2003). Both companies stand to gain a large chunk of industry business and profits from the merger.

The person responsible for a department (a departmental manager) can oversee department's performance measures and can effectively deal with the human situations in a corporate merger. Certain human elements in such situation can be objectively investigated by the departmental...