Culture Clashes
Consequences
Lack of focus
Employees might not understand the new organizational aims
Preoccupation with the merger
Employees focus on other things than their own jobs
Sense of division
Some employees do their job alone
Employees are compared with others
Sense of insolation
Employees feel ignorant of what is happening
Unresponsive management
Employees feel worried because of their managers
Lower productivity
The productivity decreases
Higher labour turnover
Employees do not feel good about their work and look for another
Various types of conflict in the workplace
Differences in ideas and stress lead to conflicts between employees
Decreased profitability
Due to the appearance of various problems, resources are invested to solve them.
Profits drecrease
Bankruptcy or failure
If the problems are severe, the company may fail
Reasons
Comfort levels with diversity
Diversity
Ethnocentric
Degrees of formality
Formal
Informal
Languages
communication
Verbal
Not-verbal
Leadership styles
Autocratic
Democratic
Paternalistic
Laissez-faire
Situational
Orientations to tasks and to people
Task oriented
Relationship-oriented
Practices
Diverse
Countries
Cultures
Senses of time
Fixed time
More fluid sense of time