Hitachi Global Storage Technologies

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This paper explores the changes incurred by the merger that created Hitachi Global Storage Technology. The paper describes the adverse effects the merger had on employees, including the initial layoffs and relocation for many remaining employees. The paper further describes skills that workers and management alike needed to develop to accommodate all of these changes including flexibility; patience; tolerance for ambiguity; tolerance for change; open-mindedness; patience; and resiliency.

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"Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (HGST), a trans-national Hard Disk Drive business, is the result of a still-uneasy blending of two traditional organizational models, IBM and Hitachi (Vance, 2004; Taing, 2005), into a single, trans-globally formed, and thereby completely transformed organizational model. HGST today, the result of a 2003 merger between IBM's and Hitachi's Hard Disk Drive (HDD) facilities (Miyagi, 2002), has had some growing pains, as a separate and distinct organization because it has had to combine two very different organizational cultures: a quintessentially Japanese one (Hitachi) with a quintessentially American one (IBM), to form a whole new corporation (Hara, 2003; Letterman, 2004; Vance, 2004) "

Sample of Sources Used:

• Hara, Y. (2003). Hitachi builds storage firm on IBM's foundation. EETimesUK. January 7, 2003. Retrieved February 26, 2006, from:http:www.eetuk.com/bus/news/ma/showArticle.jhtml?articleid=18307964.html.
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