Homework: Organizational Behaviors for Managers
Scenario: You have worked at your current employer for five years. Recently your company merged with a much larger Boston Accounting Firm to improve efficiencies, increase revenues, cut costs and adopt best practices in the industry. After the merger, you find yourself on a team of four other individuals whom you have never met. Each individual is from a different department: Auditing, Tax, Corporate Governance, Legal, and Insurance. The purpose of your team is to downsize your department in terms of employees.
Create a 10-slide restructuring/downsizing plan presentation, with speaker notes included, which can be used in each department. The plan should answer the following questions:
i. Why is the change needed?
ii. What will change?
iii. Who will be affected?
iv. How will they be affected?
v. How will potential conflict be managed?
vi. How will trust be strengthened or repaired?
vii. How will power be shared in the organization after the restructuring/downsizing?
viii. What tactics will be used to achieve a successful restructuring/downsizing transition? What tactics will be avoided?
ix. What are the benefits of the planned changes?
x. What is the timeframe of implementation?
xi. How will changes be communicated to the employees?
Write up a 175-word company-wide memo that can be used by the CEO to communicate the change plan to the employees.
Format your homework according to the following formatting requirements:
i) The answer should be typed, using Times New Roman font (size 12), double spaced, with one-inch margins on all sides.
ii) The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the homework, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
iii) Also include a reference page. The Citations and references must follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.