Leadership Style and Post-Merger Satisfaction
Department
Management and Entrepreneurship
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1997
Abstract
Explores the relationship between leadership style and post-merger satisfaction, noting from the results that leadership style is significantly related to merger satisfaction for both acquiring and acquired firm employees, but that effective leadership style profiles vary for these two groups of employees. Shows that, for acquiring firm employees, the use of reward power is the strongest predictor of merger satisfaction, while merger satisfaction for acquired firm employees is most closely associated with transformational leadership. Suggests that appropriate leadership style can greatly enhance merger effectiveness.
Journal Title
Journal of Management Development
Journal ISSN
0262-1711
Volume
16
Issue
1
First Page
22
Last Page
23
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
10.1108/02621719710155454
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