Change and Culture When Organizations Merger

HCS 514

Mergers happen all the time. There are many benefits to companies when mergers happen. However, mergers create a lot of changes to happen suddenly. When mergers combine corporations there is a lot of resistance to the changes and there are responsibilities of a middle manager to lessen the blow of these changes. Mergers happen for a desire to increase size, the hospital would want to gain clout for negotiations with managed care providers, the need to move into another market and beat out the competitions, and the total package of providing readily available comprehensive care. Mergers are a type of a horizontal integration. Horizontal integrations occur when two or more organizations get together through mergers or acquisitions...