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Merging organizational cultures - We are looking at the merger between Hewlett Packard and Compaq.
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Executive summary In short we can say that the organizational culture is a common perception held by the organizations members, a system of shared meaning. This system of shared meaning is a set of key characteristics that the organization values. Organizational culture is concerned with how employees perceive the characteristics of the culture. During a merger two different organizational cultures have to be combined and after that they have to form a new organizational culture. In 2001 two big IT manufacturers decided to merge, this was one of the biggest mergers in the history. The problem of the merger was with the merging of the two different business cultures that HP and Compaq had. HP on the one hand was like a family and everything was very friendly, and on the other hand Compaq had a more aggressive culture. Looking at the situation during this merger we can say that the biggest problem was...
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