Culture Clashes

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