A guide for managers needing to motivate employees and promote career development. This work focuses on the implementation of motivational strategies - appropriate internal communications, new career development structures, reward and recognition of achievement.

Featuring a lengthy case study of the software company Articon Integralis to explore the different aspects of mergers in depth, this text contains a summary of key points at the end of each chapter, and provides a practical approach into integrated tools and guidelines for managers. It is a user-friendly book written for practitioners and is separated into 12 chapters. Each chapter explores issues from three perspectives - those of the acquirer, the acquired and the transition manager.

Change is now so commonplace that people no longer talk in terms of the "whitewater epoch." Every sector of the economies of the developed world has experienced huge swathes of change in the last decade of the twentieth century alone. Increased global competition, aided and abetted by technological advances, has led many organizations to seek to re-invent themselves in the hope of being able to survive and thrive. In mature sectors in particular, where the pace of consolidation is accelerating, organizations have had little option but to grow through acquisition or be absorbed. Whether the...