title: Merger mania. What will a merger mean to you?
abstract: Almost as worrisome as job tenure to survivors of corporate mergers is whether they will be able to work under a completely new set of assumptions. What effect will the merger of two different corporate cultures have on effectiveness, satisfaction and promotability? Even people who believe they know the partner's culture almost as well as their own are often surprised at what happens after a merger takes place. Find out what's likely to happen in a merger by asking a few key questions.
authors.affiliation: Career Strategies, Inc., Wilmette, Illinois, USA. MMKCareer@aol.com
authors.forename: M M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Kennedy
mesh_terms: D003258:Consumer Behavior; D018864:Cultural Diversity; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D006273:Health Facility Merger / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D015279:Organizational Culture; D010563:Personnel Turnover; D008486:Physician Executives; D014481:United States