A. I believe Techfite could be classified as a clan culture. They fit as a clan culture because they seem to care more about their employees than their customers and they give their employees an opportunity to grow as workers and people. The outcome of this culture tends to be a higher job satisfaction but lower objective profit.
Endothon, on the other hand, could be classified as a market culture. I think it is appropriate to label them as a market culture because they appear to give more attention to their customers over their employees and they give more value to productivity. Market culture is more inclined to have an outcome of higher subjective innovation but lower organizational commitment.
B. Since Techfite and Endothon have such different cultures, I believe that the organizational development model of change would be the best way to align their cultures. The most important reason for choosing this model was because of employee empowerment. A great amount of the organizational development model is giving employees a say in what goes on in the company. Since Techfite is more employee focused, it would help ease them into a different
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For this acquisition, I would recommend divisional organizational structure. I believe this would be the best fit for these two companies mostly because it would keep the employees of Techfite together. They would feel more comfortable with the transition if they were around familiar faces to communicate with and possibly commiserate with. Also, with a divisional structure, there is more flexibility as they would still have their same internal structure and mostly report to the same managers they had before the acquisition. Lastly, they would have the same roles and responsibilities as their division would contribute to Endothon as a whole. Thus, the divisional organizational structure would aid Techfite in its transition into Endothon because they would be essentially doing the same jobs but as part of a bigger