Your company has just acquired another company. When the announcement is made, y

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Your company has just acquired another company. When the announcement is made, you and your counterparts are told by the CEO that there will to be no corporate staff from the acquired company retained. The exact words were “to the victor go the spoils.” The acquired company has a small information technology staff (@ 18 people). You have named one of your direct reports to act as liaison with the information staff of the acquired company. After some time your direct report comes into your office and indicates that you are not doing your job (e.g., the other department heads are offering positions to the respective staffs and you are not.) Again, you had originally been instructed to maintain silence regarding the decision not to offer any positions; and, you have not shared that information with anyone. What do you do?

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The case is critical in this context because there is miscommunication or rather misinterpretation of a quote that was made by the CEO. “to the victor go the spoils" was said by the CEO which means that the employees are now under them and they can retain them if they want but it was misinterpreted by the counterparts and by me as we thought that it means we will not be retaining any employees of the acquired organization and this created the issue. Now as the other departments are offering positions to respective staffs it has create an issue and as I have been originally instructed to maintain silence regarding the decision of not offering any position I will maintain that and will try not to retain any employees. I will be communicating this to the management that I am not retaining anyone in my department instead we will be looking to hire and recruit new individuals to replace them.

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