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Summary - Mergers & Acquisition - Divya
Summary - Mergers & Acquisition - Divya
Summary - Mergers & Acquisition - Divya
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ACQUISITIONS- SUMMARY
The chapter begins with understanding the purpose and motivation behind M&A
activities, which has 3 basic types horizontal deal, vertical deal, and
conglomerate deal. The reasons could be as follows:
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4. The customers are to be kept on board- Clear ground rules as to who will
control and manage the customer relationship after M&A needs to be
there along with a clear message delivery of message about the
welcoming union and future points of contact for the customers.
5. The overall process needs to be clear during all stages such as preacquisition, foundation building, rapid integration and assimilation with
proper steps defined within each.
The next part discusses guideline for change leaders such as:
1. Managing individuals by creating psychological safety by creating a vision,
acting as a role model and maintaining consistency about the system. We
can
use
the
Kubler
Ross
model
to
effectively
manage
change
interventions.
2. Managing team
a. Managing endings by acknowledging the ending of the old company
and giving some time for employees to grieve over the loss of
familiarities.
b. Managing transition from old to new (Integration). Manage the
phases as listed in the Tuckmans model of team developmentForming, storming, norming and performing.
c. Managing beginnings by not being too hasty to declare victory soon
but celebrate the beginning at the right timing.
3. Managing yourself- Managers might become frustrated because of
repeating the same information and still finding that their teams are
unable to move on. In this, the manager and the team are not in sync with
respect to emotions as per Kubler-Ross curves. The line managers need to
be involved and informed, know people, recognize feeling of anxiety,
manage
their
career,
identify
success
criteria
and
re-benchmark