The goal of this project is for you to utilize all of the topics you have learned throughout this course in a real world situation. In order to complete this project by the end of Unit VIII, you should be spending time on it each week that youare in the course.
You are the senior operations manager for a mid-sized insurance company. One of your smaller competitors (also an insurance company) has been hit hard due to many claims from a recent major storm. The company has also made somebad investments and is in financial trouble. Your boss has called you in to tell you that they plan on buying out this firmand integrating their business, and he needs you to develop the internal executive proposal that outlines a plan forintegrating the smaller company into your current company’s current organizational model. Your job is to come up with anorganizational plan to create a smooth merger of the two companies. From start to finish, develop a proposal ‘for internaluse only’ that explains how the company should proceed.
Your boss tells you that the main goal of your proposal is to minimize behavioral resistance to change at both companies, to include clients, leadership, and subordinates. Include recommendations, such as activities, communications, andcorporate meetings/events, in each related area of organizational behavior that will help with this merger. Be sure to citetheories from your textbook and at least three peer-reviewed, scholarly articleswrittenin the organizational behavior fieldwithin the last three to five years to support your proposed ideas. Your paper should consist of a minimum of two pages inTimes New Roman 12-point font and be double-spaced. Please be sure to cite all references, including your textbook, inproper APA format.
Be sure to cover each of the following content areas:
Improving Perceptions
Work-Related Stress
Employee Motivation
Rational Choice Paradigm
Team Processes
Channels Of Communication
Organizational Culture And Power
Ethical Issues
Organizational Structure
McShane, S. L., & Von Glinow, M. A. (2013). Organizational behavior (6th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill/Irwin.
