Be prepared for changes thrust on you in the event of a re-organization, a re-engineering exercise, or a takeover.
Here's what to expect in a takeover:
- Rumours abound.
- Executives are inaccessible and are in meetings continuously.
- Information from management, in the form of a memo, will usually reflect what people know already.
- No direct reliable information is available from high-profile managers.
- Senior managers resign.
- New faces begin to appear during walking tours.
- A new management team is announced.
- The managers make some attempt to listen to staff.
- New procedures and processes are decreed.
- Further layoffs and resignations take place.
- The culture of the organization changes significantly.
Adapted from The Portable Mentor