Critical Thinking Exercise:  

We talk a great deal about getting buy-in with the strategic direction of the organization after an acquisition. How should managers develop buy-in from the acquired company personnel? How would getting the support of those individuals aid the merging process? How would you evaluate if you have the support or not?

Research exercise:

Find, read and analyze at least five professional articles in addition to the assigned readings.  Develop a one paragraph abstract for each article that summarizes the main topic.  These should be scholarly articles or citations from professional journals.  Please avoid 'crowd-sourced' material from Wikipedia, about.com, and others.  Submit this assignment by uploading a Word document in the assignment link.  Prepare an APA references page that includes these 5 articles.

Note:

This paper should be a minimum of 1000 words and follow APA Style requirements (i.e. cover page, in-text citations, and a reference page).  Please use a minimum of 6 references for this assignment (at least one for the Critical Thinking exercise and five for the research component).