Managing Uncertainty during a Corporate Acquisition: A Longitudinal Study of Communication During an Airline Acquisition.

By Michael W. Kramer, D. Dougherty, Tamyra Pierce. 2004

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Subfields: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Interpersonal Communication: Theoretical Perspectives, Future Prospects (2005, unknown): “In addition, altered versions of the theory have provided some purchase in explaining aspects of intercultural encounters (Berger & Gudykunst, 1991; Gudykunst, 1995), social support (Parks & Adelman, 1983), and organizational behavior (Kramer, 1999, 2004; Kramer, Dougherty, & Pierce, 2004).”
The role of organizational communication and participation in reducing job insecurity and its negative association with work-related well-being (2010, methodology): “Second, the Motivation to Reduce Uncertainty Model (Kramer, 1999; Kramer et al., 2004) suggests that the nature of organizational communication is critical in understanding the association with job insecurity: reassuring official organizational communication may reduce insecurity, while rumours may…”
Middle managers' uncertainty management during organizational change (2006, background): “Kramer et al. (2004) investigated the effect of communication on uncertainty for pilots during an acquisition of their airline.”
Organizational communication: A buffer in times of job insecurity? (2014, background): “Information resources provided by organizational communication practices help employees to make sense of the specific working environment (Sias and Bartoo, 2007), better understand and predict their situations (Kramer, 1999), and therefore reduce the uncertainty and increase predictability in times ”
Developing criteria for healthy organizational change (2007, background): “The probability of any change project realizing planned financial and strategic objectives has been found to be 25–50% (Clegg & Walsh, 2004 ; Kramer, Dougherty, & Pierce, 2004 ).”
Surviving organizational change: how management communication helps balance mixed feelings (2008, background): “A similar result was found by Kramer et al. (2004).”