The document discusses several topics: 1) The changing nature of work including trends like telecommuting, activity-based working, and mobile devices allowing more flexible work arrangements. 2) Mergers and takeovers in business, describing different types like horizontal and vertical mergers as well as hostile and friendly takeovers. 3) Women workers in the industry, outlining advantages like flexibility and strong skills, as well challenges faced like the gender pay gap and sexual harassment.

1. Changing nature of work
Mergers and Takeovers
Women Workers in the industry

2. Changing nature of work
2
Telecommuting
Work management
without borders
• Part-time working
• Job Sharing
.
more focused on identifying
value from the customer
perspective
Smart machines
replace routine
jobs
Employee engagement
activities
Outsourcing
Demographics and diversity

3. Changing Nature of Work
3
Activity based working
it revolve around creating a
workspace that is less
hierarchical and fosters
collaboration, personal
accountability and flexibility.
Cubicle walls are
coming down in favor
of open floor plans
The advent of cloud computing and
mobile devices allows us to move away
from personal desktop technology, paper
and personal files that have anchored the
worker to his or her desk. The ability to
be mobile within the office allows us to
work more collaboratively and in less
overall space than previously

4. A merger simply means an
agreement in which two
companies settle into an
agreement to form a new third
company or legal entity
A takeover, or acquisition, is
characterized by the purchase of
a smaller company by a much
larger one

5. Types of Mergers
5
In this type of merger,
companies are in a similar
market but having
overlapping technologies. In
this, one company can add
its product line to another
company line
Congeneric Market Extension Horizontal and
VerticalConglomerate
A conglomerate is a type of
merger, in which companies
are not engaged in related
business.
companies sell similar
products but are in different
geography or areas. With a
market extension,
companies try to gain access
to a larger market group.
In this Horizontal Merger, the
companies are in the same
product line and in a similar
industry. When 2 companies
are at a different level in a
product line and are trying to
merge them,

6. Types of takeovers
Friendly Hostile
It is a takeover to a
target company
whose management
is unwilling to agree
to a takeover
Reverse Backflip
A friendly takeover which is
also known as a welcome
takeover refers to a takeover
where both of the
company’s board of
directors is in mutual
agreement about the
takeover.
It is a takeover in
which a private
company acquires a
public company
Here the bidding
company becomes the
subsidiary of the taken
over company

7. Advantages
• Economies of scale- Bigger firms more efficient
• Lower prices from the efficiency of scale and
synergy
• More investment and research from higher profits.
• Can save and unprofitable firm from going out of
business
• Avoid duplication in natural monopoly
Disadvantages
• Higher prices-if monopoly power increases
• A firm with monopoly power may become
inefficient
• Two very different firms may struggle to merge
• Less choice for consumers
• Job losses

8. Working Women
A woman who earns a salary, wages, or other income
through regular employment, outside the home.
8
LOREM
IPSUM

9. Advantages of women in business
9
• Flexibility at the workplace
• Motivate others to excel
• Strong team spirit and feeling of
togetherness
• Stronger ethics
• Great management skills
• Positivity and optimism

10. 01
Challenges faced by Women in workplace
10
racial and ethnical
racism.
Gender Pay Gap.
Sexual
Harassment.
Climbing the Career
Ladder
Appearance
.
Work-Life Imbalance
Ego Clashes
02
03
04
05
06
07
08
Pregnancy
Discrimination