4 What makes employees support or resist a merger or acquisition, and what makes them want to quit?
In Chapters 1 and 2 we explored different types of mergers and acquisitions, and their history as organizational events that have a reputation for cutting costs by making people redundant, closing sites, and making drastic changes to the people managing an organization. Chapter 2 also discussed how mergers and acquisitions have a reputation for failing for financial and economic reasons such as a national recession, a stock market crash, or changes in what is popular with consumers or investors. Although many mergers and acquisitions succeed, it is understandable that employees may be more aware of those that failed, such as through the news, ...
