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Making mergers work : a guide to managing mergers and acquisitions / Price Pritchett.
Lippincott Library HD2746.5 .P75 1987
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pritchett, Price.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Consolidation and merger of corporations.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 108 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Homewood, Ill. : Dow Jones-Irwin, [1987]
- Summary:
- The cost of mergers and acquisitions goes far beyond the financial aspects of swinging the deal. The impact on productivity, profits and personnel in both the acquiring and the target firms is often overlooked. Lack of attention to postmerger management issues leads to communication difficulties, operating tangles, loss of team play, power struggles, low morale and employee bailouts. Making Mergers Work is a practical guide to managing the merger integration process.
- The financial structuring of mergers and acquisitions is a complicated process, but it is only one part of the battle. Making Mergers Work is a valuable resource for meeting the challenge of postmerger management.
- Contents:
- 1 Cutting the High Cost of Mismanaged Mergers 1
- The Failure Rate in Today's Merger World
- The Cost of Lost Talent
- The Financial Damage of Lost Productivity
- The Price Tag on Loss of Competitive Position
- The Expense of Union Problems
- The Cost of Miscasting People
- Coaching Points
- 2 Getting in Touch with Merger Problems 14
- Failure to Recognize Problems
- Disregard for Problems
- Denial of Problems
- The Management Hot Seat
- Action versus Words
- 3 Avoiding the Most Common Management Mistakes 28
- Violation of Expectations
- Crisis of Leadership
- Moving Too Slowly
- Fixing Things that Ain't Broken
- Undercommunicating and Losing Touch
- 4 Managing Employees through the Three Merger Stages 50
- Stage 1 Shock and Numbness
- Stage 2 Suffering
- Stage 3 Resolution
- A Four-Step Process for Dealing with Loss
- 5 Managing Resistance to Change 61
- Where Resistance Comes From
- How People Resist
- Steps toward Overcoming Resistance to Change
- 6 Managing the Team-Building Process 77
- Stages of Team Development
- The Team-Building Process
- 7 Managing Differences in Corporate Culture 94
- Corporate Culture: The Organization's Personality
- The Difficult Task of Culture Change
- The Time Window for Change
- The Impact of Mergers on Corporate Culture
- Managing Cultural Conflict
- Epilogue 106.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 0870949802
- OCLC:
- 15694356
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