Cidadania organizacional e outras variáveis comportamentais atuantes em um ambiente de fusão

Abstract

Organizations change their management practices, sometimes after a process of merging, due to external factors such as changes or social, politics, environmental, and economic problems. It also happens due to internal variables such as financial health, management styles, cultural differences, different levels of knowledge, reduced commitment, fear, and others that may influence behavior of the organizations. The company, focus of this research, named Alpha, with the strategic purpose of expanding their businesses and to be more competitive in the market, sold part of it s shareholding (49%) to a company described as Beta in December, 2008. Within this context, this research was carried out with Alfa employees, in Caxias do Sul. The purpose of this study was to measure aspects of organizational behavior in a company merger environment. The research was classified as quantitative, exploratory (a case study), in which the data were processed using statistical techniques like factor analysis, Anova and multiple regression analysis. Pre-tested scales were used for the organizational behavior set and a new scale was developed to measure and identify the qualifying variables in a merger environment. The results identified moderate degrees of organizational behavior among the respondents, with significant variability in different sample subgroups. The significant behavioral variables extracted from the research instrument were: organizational commitment, organizational citizenship (initiative, loyalty and fidelity), and job satisfaction. The merger qualifying variables extracted were: work and task, motivation, and communication. It was noticed that the set of behavioral variables identified may be responsible for defining organizational culture, which represents the way of acting, leading, resolving conflicts, solving problems, achieving results, i.e., the way of managing the company.