Although the merger between Gray Enterprises and Horack Manufacturing is expected to be a "win-win" that will increase both companies' market share and save jobs, employees are fearful because they don't know what to expect. Which technique would be most useful in overcoming their resistance to change?

Facilitation and support

Explanation:

Facilitation and support is a technique used by managers when trying to make employees feel at ease about a certain change as a result of adjustments made the higher authority. It is also used in circumstances where people of different backgrounds, abilities and interests are to work together.  

In facilitation and support of employees, the manager puts the employees into groups to work together and also support them by offering help to them along the line, whenever it is needed. This helps to remove or eliminate any uneasiness that employees might harbor towards the change during the period of transitioning like in the question.

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a manufacturer of printed circuit boards uses exponential smoothing with trend to forecast monthly demand of its product. at the end of december, the company wishes to forecast sales for january. the estimate of trend through november has been 200 additional boards sold per month. average sales have been around 1000 units per month. the demand for december was 1100 units. the company uses α = 0.20 and β = 0.10. make a forecast including trend for the month of january.

answercombination of ability and experience of the partners;