Strategic Human Resources – Assignment Sheet 2
Case Study:
In the past, the decision criteria for mergers and acquisitions
were typically based on considerations such as the strategic fit of
the merged organizations, financial criteria, and operational
criteria. Mergers and acquisitions were often conducted without
much regard for the human resource issues that would be faced when
the organizations were joined. As a result, several undesirable
effects on the organizations’ human resources commonly occurred.
Nonetheless, competitive conditions favor mergers and acquisitions
and they remain a frequent occurrence. Examples of mergers among
some of the largest companies include the following: Honeywell and
Allied Signal, British Petroleum and Amoco, Exxon and Mobil,
Lockheed and Martin, Boeing and McDonnell Douglas, SBC and Pacific
Telesis, America Online and Time Warner, Burlington Northern and
Santa Fe, Union Pacific and Southern Pacific, Daimler-Benz and
Chrysler, Ford and Volvo, and Bank of America and Nations
Bank.
Layoffs often accompany mergers or acquisitions, particularly if
the two organizations are from the same industry. In addition to
layoffs related to redundancies, top managers of acquiring firms
may terminate some competent employees because they do not fit in
with the new culture of the merged organization or because their
loyalty to the new management may be suspect. The desire for a good
fit with the cultural objectives of the new organization and
loyalty are understandable. However, the depletion of the stock of
human resources deserves serious consideration, just as with
physical resources. Unfortunately, the way that mergers and
acquisitions have been carried out has often conveyed a lack of
concern for human resources.
A sense of this disregard is revealed in the following
observation:
Post combination integration strategies vary in tactics, some
resemble to “marriage & love’ but in reality, collaborative
mergers are much more hostile in implementing forceful decision and
financial takeovers. Yet, as a cursory scan of virtually any
newspaper or popular business magazine readily reveals, the simple
fact is that the latter are much more common than the former.
The cumulative effects of these developments often cause employee
morale and loyalty to decline, and feelings of betrayal may
develop. Nonetheless, such adverse consequences are not inevitable.
A few companies, such as Cisco Systems, which has made over 50
acquisitions
(https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/about/corporate-strategy-office/acquisitions/acquisitions-list-years.html),
are very adept in handling the human resource issues associated
with these actions. An example of one of Cisco’s practices is
illustrative. At Cisco Systems, no one from an acquired firm is
laid off without the personal approval of Cisco’s CEO as well as
the CEO of the firm that was acquired.
QUESTIONS:
1. Interview someone who has been through a merger or acquisition.
Find out how they felt as an employee. Determine how they and their
coworkers were affected. Ask about the effects on productivity,
loyalty, and morale. Find out what human resource practices were
used and obtain their evaluations of what was helpful or
harmful.
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QUESTION 1
Advanced Directives:
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Ensure that the health care provider offers the necessary information about an invasive procedure to allow the patient to make an informed decision |
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Allows a competent patient to leave specific directions for medical care if they should become incompetent |
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Sets laws of "presumed consent" to donate organs |
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None of the above QUESTION 2 How did Webster v. Reproductive Health Services 492 U.S. 490 1989 modify Roe v. Wade
0.5 points QUESTION 3 Presumed consent to donate would allow:
0.5 points QUESTION 4 Which of the following criteria is included in the determination of eligibility to be placed on the list to receive donated organ?
0.5 points QUESTION 5 Eugenics:
0.5 points QUESTION 6 The statement "the well being of the patient should take precedence over the interests of society" and science is most consistent with:
0.5 points QUESTION 7 The Uniform Anatomical Gift Act:
0.5 points QUESTION 8 UNOS governs the distribution of donated organs True False 0.5 points QUESTION 9 The Natural Death Act provides the legal documentation for a person to donate their organs for medical research True False 0.5 points QUESTION 10 Advanced Directives are a type of living will that allows a competent person to leave instructions for treatments they would or would not like to have in the event they cannot make the decision themselves. True False 0.5 points QUESTION 11 In Roe v. Wade the Supreme Court determined that the fetus does NOT have 14th amendment rights. True False 0.5 points QUESTION 12 It is NEVER legal for humans to be used as research subjects. True False 0.5 points QUESTION 13 Socioeconomic status is not a factor used to determine whether or not a person is placed on the organ transplant list. True False 0.5 points QUESTION 14 The statement, " doctors have a duty to protect human life, and therefore should never perform euthanasia" is an argument most consistent with which ethical theory?
0.5 points QUESTION 15 The statement, " If all the women who became pregnant and were not in a financial position to care for the child were forced to have their children society would be overburdened with the responsibility of providing for these children. " is an argument most consistent with which ethical theory?
0.5 points QUESTION 16 Informed Consent is used to:
0.5 points QUESTION 17 Though there are some situations in which some type of harm seems inevitable in the course of treating patients, we are morally bound to choose the course which limits unneeded or futile pain for the patient. This is most consistent with which ethical principle?
0.5 points QUESTION 18 The statement, "the act of lying is wrong in all situations, regardless of the outcome" is most consistent with:
0.5 points QUESTION 19 The statement, "the act of lying is acceptable if the positive outcome of lying in a given situation outweighs the negative outcome" is most consistent with the theory of::
0.5 points QUESTION 20 CRISPR
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