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The purpose of this study is to understand the status of corporate-culture training being practiced by the acquiring firms, the effect of corporate-culture training degree on employees'' organizational commitment, and the relationship between the organizational culture recognition and employees'' organizational commitment of merged firms. This article made a survey of 130 employees of which firms being merged or acquired during 1988 to 1977. The results are summarized as follows: 1.Three ways of corporate-culture training:"group discussion" and "work shop" are used more frequently than others. 2.Use factor analysis to generate three key factors: "tectues" "involement and identification to organizations" "loyalty to organizations" and "willingness to stay" from organizational commitnment questionnaire 3.Corporate-culture training has a positive effect on organizational culture recognition, three factors of culture recognition, organizational commitment, involvement and identification to organizations and loyalty to organizations, but has no significant effect on willingness to stay. 4.Organizational culture recognition has a positive effect on organizational commitment, involvement and identification to organizations and loyalty to organizations, but has no significant effect on willingness to stay. 5.Common value recognition has a positive effect on organizational commitment, involvement and identification to organizationas and loyalty to organizations but has no significant effect on willingness to stay. 6. Common behavior norm recognition only has a positive effect on involvement and identification to organization. 7.Symbolic activities recognition has no significant offect on organizational commitment and three factors of organizational commitment.
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