INTRODUCTION
1.1      BACKGROUND OF STUDY
The word merger and Acquisition have been in the forefront in the economic environment in recent years. Today, Organization in the economies is from time to time with a vast array of Challenges from the operating environment.
Corporate in efficiency and in efficiency have been rampaging the corporate world. It is not uncommon to see various organizations being plagued with series level of unprofitability. This run through the Whole gamete of economy, both profit and nonprofit making companies operate in a dynamic environment created and influenced by a variety of forces.
These changes in a dynamic environment create uncertainty and risk; also create opportunities for management to exploit the situation of profit objectives and productivity.
A major fact about a business operating environment is that it is dynamic and not static environment, if it works to survive it is no gain saying that most companies are caught napping with the various changing trends that are avoiding in the business environment . Even various policies promulgated by the necessary authorities to ground tools and pull out business.
The various view about changes in business environment there are over ready corporate organization that are on look out for changes in the operating environment. They capitalized on opportunities that these effort to bring about corporate productivity.
An Organization performance in the environment is a matter of degree of alignment between the organization environmental opportunities objectives, policies and strategies. A careful analysis of the corporate atmosphere in Nigeria has ascertained most of the industries and companies that are operating at less than full efficiency and hence are unable to maximize the value of the wealth of a group of large investors or shareholder.
Therefore, it is against this backdrop that affected organization are now developing survival instincts and strategy one of the ground strategies being sought after by corporate management in recent time is merger and Acquisition. A typical example is the reforming in the banking industries, before the policies of 14=25 billion minimum capital balance, hardly can the industry boast of four banks coming together to finance a 1o billion worth of projects. Even the real sects felt a great blow because if the inability to gain access of loan facilities in the banking industry.
In the quest for survival a subsequent efficient competitive edge in the market, merger and acquisition is being considered as a group strategy tools for corporate productivity. Merger in corporative by the transfer of all property to a single corporation. Every organization desire to grow in order to achieve this, a group strategy should be adopted for the profitability and productivity. When an organization has clarified as purpose and objectivities, it knows where it wants to go; the position is how to get there? It then develops strategy on how to reach the goals.
Consumers as well as industries markets have come to expect periodic is changes and improvement in the products which are offered, then for this to be realized, Companies seek merger and Acquisition to satisfy the market which will eventually result to increase market share when two or more companies come together pull their resources together, a new strong and healthy organization with better service will be birthed.
Merger and acquisition enhanced corporate productivity through provision of access to new markets for the acquiring firm but also result in the acquiring of high market share. This will result to high patronage of a firm product and increase the firm’s stock value.
Conclusively, the synergistic effect of merger and acquisition can never be emphasized on organization profitability. It ensures that all are desk in the organization to provide extra mutual beneficent and reinforcing advantages that will prosper the organization more rapidly towards the achievement of it goals. To improve the stability of firms earnings, sale and productivity merger and acquisition should be considered as group strategic option for cooperate profitability
1.2      STATEMENT OF THE RESEARCH PROBLEM
In recent time merger and acquisition have been a typical issue among the captains of the economy what constitutes the focus of the research is the various environment forces that have crippled the effectiveness and productivity of the economy and the seemingly group strategy way out. Every company has had it rough in the economy because of their in abilities to perform to the full capacity of their production system.
The unproductiveness of these various corporate organizations has dealt a great blow on the economy at large. The market could not have their needs talk less of saturating the market with the required production and services.
The multiplier effect of these short coming leads to inflation in the economy where more cash is chasing few goods and services. The unproductively is also witness in the main stay of the economy, banking industry. The banking industry has been characterized with poor financial capacity. The economy is not private investment because of the inability to allow more funds into their economy, even the real sectors economy was affected because of their inability to gain access to loan facilities in banking industry. There are cases of banks distressed as a result of this poor financial liability of the banks, it is against this backdrop that the management of the apex bank in the country, Central bank of Nigeria proposed consolidation in the banking industry to share up the capital base of the various banks in the industry for profitability . The imperfect of merger and acquisition to ensure corporate profitability remains the focus of the study. In view of these problems, research questions are asked; which are to be later resolved.
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For any of a large number of reasons, merger and acquisition cannot take a back seat in this view of economic resolution that is sweeping across the financial sector and seal section of the economy
1.4         RESERCH QUESTIONS
The purpose of this research is to establish the fact that merger and acquisition stands as a strategic management option to bringing about profitability and achievement of organizational goals.
Therefore, both null hypothesis (Ho) and alternatives hypothesis (Ha) will be used to test the impact of merger and acquisition or organization profitability.
The research formulated the following.
1.6      SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STORY
Strategy constitutes the vehicular procedures through which an organization attains its goals in the over dynamic business environment. Profitability and growth are among the key objectives of business concerns. Then one would righty believe that a progressive organization must develop strategic towards their achievement.
Merger and acquisition will steam line the enlarged organization, which will run on less administrative and overhead cost than for separate organizations. It will help in recognizing the needs for strategic opinion for corporate productivity.
The Study will help managers using merger and acquisition to create an atmosphere that will enhance effective and efficient achievement of cooperate productivity. It will expose the benefits and growing realization that merger and acquisition can bring to effectiveness and efficient of an organization.
The study will offer policy recommendation to managers in improving the level of corporate productivity and profitability in the Banking Industries.
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1.7      SCOPE OF STUDY
There are other ground strategic option the rough which an organization can be production but this research work is limited to “Merger and Acquisition on Organization profitability “ Merger and Acquisition on organization profitability†The areas that will be carried in the course of carrying out this research work will include the responsibility of realizing how effective and efficient an organization can be if a strategic “Corporate marriageâ€Â is arranged with another offering the same service.
Also, the process that will be involved in the scheme of merger will be understudying to enhance scheme of merger will be understudying to enhance a successful merger and acquisition.
The process of management and cultural due diligence that need to be attended to in course of merger and acquisition will be understudying in the course of the research of the work. In the same vein, the after math positive effect of the same merger and acquisition will also be adequate examined in all fields of human endeavors, Problems and constraints.
1.8      LIMITATION TO STUDY
This study focuses on the effects of merger and acquisition on the growth of an organization. It also emphasized on what must be done to curb the negative factors that surrounds or hinder its implementation.
1.9    DEFINITION OF TERMS
Merger: Is a situation where two or more separate entities agree to less their individual legal entity to come under one umbrella entity by pooling their management material and labor resources together.
Economy: Is a system which tries to balance the available resources of a country through the means of factor of production.
Operation: The action of functioning or being effect is an area of concerned with responsibility.
Impact: The measure of the significant or strong influence and intangible effect of one act.
Acquisition: Is the situation where companies agree to pool their interest by an exchange of shares, so that the existing shareholder comes together under one entity.
Business: Comprise of the sum total of all activities involved in the creation and distribution of goods and services in order to earn profit,
Profitability: The efficiency of a company or industry to make a profit or helpful result in the situation in which the company is producing or making profit.
Growth: The creation and the implementation of policies that influence the types, the amount, the timing and economy development.
1.10    ORGANIZATION OF STUDY
This is divided into five chapters.
Chapter one: is the general introduction that contains the background, study, purpose of study, statement of research problem, research questions, research hypothesis, and significance of study and scope of study.
Chapter two: is the literature review. It contains the concept of merger and acquisition. The types of mergers, i.e Horizontal merger, and vertical merger conglomerate merger.
Motives behind merger and acquisition. Guidelines to merger and acquisition, efficiency of merger and acquisition in organization profitability, the place of employees in a successful merger and acquisition management and cultural due-diligence, post merger operation.
Chapter three: contains the research design, description of the study population. Sampling of plan Description of Data collection instrument and the Administration of data instruments.
Chapter four: is the presentation data analysis which includes presentation of data according to research questions.
The last Chapter, which is chapter five is the summary, conclusion and recommendation.