Recent research shows that organisational mergers are distressing for managers. This study compares the perceptions of managers who have undergone an organisational merger with those of managers who have experienced other types of job change. An analysis of psychological responses to work and to...

The effect of mergers on the retention and the performance of managers through a comparative analysis of merger and non‐merger job changes is investigated. For the sample of 196 managers surveyed changes in managerial performance during a merger were no different from those occurring during...