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Changing organizational cultures: The challenge in forging successful mergers.
Abstract
This article addresses mergers in a nonprofit setting through a case
study and a discussion of the literature. It addresses some commonly
overlooked, though highly essential components of successful mergers:
people. Nonprofit human service agencies are fundamentally changing
the way they do business. The environment on which they depend is
evolving rapidly, forcing many organizational and cultural changes.
Mergers of nonprofit organizations operate similarly to those in
proprietary settings, particularly around employee issues. Oftentimes
the beginning phase of mergers creates workplace ambiguities for
workers. In a merger, the culture of each organization must advance a
deeper understanding and respect for the other's differences before
the staff of each organization can build trust and communicate
effectively as one team and create its own new culture. (PsycINFO
Database Record (c) 2007 APA, all rights reserved) (journal abstract)
Journal
(2003)
vol27
no1
pages69-81
Categories
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Managing External Relations
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Other Inter-organizational relationships
