Organizational Psychology of Mergers and Acquisitions Camelia Oancea, Caroline Kamau.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Oancea, Camelia, author.

Kamau, Caroline, author.

Series:

Routledge studies in leadership, work and organizational psychology.

Routledge studies in leadership, work and organizational psychology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychology, Industrial.

Consolidation and merger of corporations--Psychological aspects.

Consolidation and merger of corporations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (215 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 2020.

Summary:

Organizational Psychology of Mergers and Acquisitions provides a comprehensive perspective that helps you understand, empathise and protect the wellbeing of employees who experience mergers and acquisitions. This book gives a state-of-the-art review that crosses different subjects within psychology including psychobiology, neuroscience, social psychology, interpersonal relationships, and organizational psychology. This book discusses why many employees think of mergers or acquisitions as scary or threatening events, why negative emotions are prevalent, their psychobiological impact and how to assess employees' emotional responses using a new toolkit. It helps readers learn what counts as good leadership, considering the role of charisma, personality, context and information processing abilities. This book includes the issue of organizational learning, and the relevance of occupational health and safety to due diligence about mergers and acquisitions through case studies about organizations sued for cancer or cancer-related mortality after a merger or acquisition. This book is mandatory reading for students, academics, and practitioners working with organizations experiencing a merger or an acquisition such as consultants, human resource professionals, psychologists, occupational health professionals, and employees involved in strategy, management, or people development.

Contents:

Understanding and Classifying Different Types of Mergers and Acquisitions

Historical Trends in Mergers and Acquisitions and Why Employees Think of Them as Scary events involving job losses and other negative outcomes

Psychobiology of human emotions, why employees experiencing mergers or acquisitions feel fear, anger and other negative emotions, and a new assessment toolkit

What makes employees support or resist a merger or acquisition and what makes them want to quit?

Why employees experiencing mergers and acquisitions think and act in terms of group dynamics of "us versus them"

Why cultural differences in nonverbal language and workplace interactions create problems among employees experiencing mergers and acquisitions

Good leadership in mergers or acquisitions is about charisma, dynamics with employees, personality, context and information processing

Organisational learning is a common goal in mergers and acquisitions but what psychological processes help or hinder it?

Considering occupational health and safety in due diligence for mergers and acquisitions

learning from lawsuits about cancer mortality

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781317600473

1317600479

9781315747156

1315747154

9781317600480

1317600487

OCLC:

1159405006