1st Edition
Organizational Psychology of Mergers and Acquisitions
214 Pages
4 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
214 Pages
4 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
214 Pages
4 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Preface
- 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
References
Index
Biography
Camelia Oancea is a machine learning engineer at Airbus Defence and Space. She currently combines her career in artificial intelligence at Airbus with doctoral research at Birbeck University of London, UK.
Caroline Kamau is a Senior Lecturer in Organisational Psychology at Birkbeck, University of London, UK.
