A1. Illustrate how Bill Bailey, chairman of the board of the Utah Opera Organization, might use one theory of motivation to oppose or support the merger. Bill Bailey openly stated that opera trustees had two primary concerns; the opera’s financially stable model against the symphony’s more volatile model, and the possibility of becoming a tier one arts organization versus the risk of losing the opera’s identity to the larger symphony persona. (Delong & Ager, 2005) Bill needs to utilize Vroom’s
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A1) Bill Bailey, Chairman of the Board of Utah Opera, is cognizant of the benefits that can be reaped should a merger form between UOC and the Utah Symphony. One of his tasks is to share his view point by motivating potential supporters to become proponents of the merger. He himself is motivated by this potential merger due to the financial hardships the arts’ field in general is enduring. He understands that they merger most likely will result in profit and long term growth/stability. Whilst
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popularity Fits into clan category Commitment to employees High degree of reliance on others Mutually beneficial relationship between leaders and instrumentalists Utah symphony seems to be focused on providing a high quality experience to their audience Utah opera is more focused on gaining new audiences through experimentation and innovation Both organizations seem to be very directionally oriented, allowing upper management to make most decisions
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The Utah Symphony and the Utah Opera have combined into one company. Anne Ewers is the new leader of the combined companies. This paper will help her in the development of a new strategy to look at the success of the merge. The Utah Symphony is a group II orchestra. This is based on the level of expenditures every year. In the year of 2001-2002 the average expenses were around 8.8 million for group II orchestras. The Symphony spend around $12.2 million for that year. The Utah Symphony was
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A. Analysis Document for Anne Ewers on Issues with Merger Process 1. Bill Bailey, chairman of the board of the Utah Opera Organization, could use the Equity Theory of motivation to oppose the merger. Much like the five levels of needs determined by Maslow and the two factors of motivation as classified by Herzberg (intrinsic and extrinsic), the Adams’ Equity Theory of motivation states that positive outcomes and high levels of motivation can be expected only when people perceive their treatment
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Create a document to help Anne Ewers think through issues that may result from the merger process. A1. Bill Bailey Illustrate how Bill Bailey, might use one theory of motivation to support or oppose the merger. Background: There are two perspectives when talking about theories of motivation; Content Theories and Process Theories. These two theories can complement each other instead of compete as alternatives. Content theories deal with “the what” of motivation. They try to explain the forces which
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One major point that should never be forgotten is to acquire various business concerning papers of the company with whom it desires to amalgamate. Position of Bill Bailey’s on the Merger The chairperson the Utah Opera Organization may well apply the MEI hypothesis relating to the organizing consolidation: Avoiding Merger-Encouraged-Individualism to hold up the unification. According to this hypothesis, unification and acquirement offer businesses with attractive prospects for the market allocation
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Task 1- Organizational Management A1. Bill Bailey Bill Bailey is opposing the merger of the Opera with the Utah Symphony for several reasons. Using the Adam’s Equity Theory, Mr. Bailey will have the opportunity to persuade the members of the board to reject the proposed merger. Adam’s Equity Theory states that employees perform at a higher rate if they feel that they are being treated fairly. Equity is obtained when a worker perceives that the reward for the amount of work performed is equal to
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Bill Bailey, chairman of the board of the Utah Opera Organization, might use one theory of motivation to oppose or support the merger. Bill Bailey stated that his opera trustees were concerned about the financial stability of opera in comparison to the symphony. They were concerned that there might be a financial problems being that the opera based its performances on the fund raising projects that were put into place for each performance. The symphony, it is stated, does not have that type of
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Kissinger2/9/2012| Mr. Bill Baily Mr. Bill Baily is chair of the board of the Utah Opera Organization (UOC). He seems to be supporting this merger with a sense of caution. Although the UOC seems stable at the moment, the financial stability could erode in years to come due to the decline of public as well as private support for their company. Mr. Baily has the desire to see that the opera become a tier-one arts organization and the merger has the potential to cause this to come to fruition. The UOC wants to
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