ANALISIS PENGARUH LEADERSHIP TRUST DAN LEADERSHIP VISIBILITY TERHADAP EMPLOYEE PSYCHOLOGICAL SAFETY (EPS) KARYAWAN PERUSAHAAN TARGET AKUISISI
ABSTRACT: Acquisition
is one of the strategic activities for many organizations in order to maintain sustainable
competitive advantages. Evidence shows that acquisition failed mostly because
of cultural conflict, management style, and value created failures. Prior researches
focused on integration process as well as combination process and still result inconsistency
findings about post-acquisition performance and employee psychological safety.
This research aims to explore and bridge the gap of the acquisition success
from human resources side particularly in acquiring leadership style to
acquired employee psychological safety (EPS). This study captures employees’
perceive about leadership trust and leadership visibility of acquiring leaders,
integration process, and deal status toward their psychological safety
post-acquisition as dependent variable. Deal status was known has moderating
effect on leadership visibility to EPS. The results show that leadership
visibility has no significant effect on EPS while leadership trust positively affects
the EPS. When we examine acquisition phase which is represented by integration process
and deal status only the integration process has positively significant effect
on EPS. Communication quality has the highest positive effect in
post-acquisition integration process. Otherwise power differential
statistically proved has the highest negative effect on EPS in post-acquisition
deal status. Furthermore, there is pure moderating effect resulting from deal
status on leadership visibility. Overall, this study contributes to further
explanation about what are important skill and behavior that need to be
considered for leaders to gain target employees’ psychological safety.
Keywords:
acquisition, leadership trust, leadership visibility, deal status, integration process,
and EPS
Penulis: Rima
Febrina, Riani Rachmawati
