Charge of the Nueces Task Force (A)

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Case

Reference no. UVA-OB-0304

Subject category: Human Resource Management / Organisational Behaviour

Authors: James GS Clawson (Darden School of Business, University of Virginia); Frederick F Stow (University of Virginia)

Published by: Darden Business Publishing

Published in: 1987

Length: 12 pages

Topics: Change, Management of; Mergers; Organizational culture; Organizational design; Organizational development

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Abstract

Tom Bell, newly appointed divisional manager for a large commercial-property leasing company, has been given instructions to merge two departments in the firm. These departments have very different structures, cultures, plant and equipment, computer systems, and personnel backgrounds. Bell has incomplete information on these dimensions but has formed a task force to work on the merger. The B case (UVA-OB-0305) describes what Bell did so that students can compare their solutions with the actual one.