The M&A Transition Guide: A 10-Step Roadmap for Workforce Integration

By Patti Hanson

Provides a practical, 10-step process for managing the human aspectof an M&A

M&A activity is higher than ever with acquisitions becoming animportant part of every company's growth strategy. The industriesheavily engaging in this activity are high-tech, emergingtechnologies, and utilities.

The M&A Transition Guide is written for executives, managers, and HR professionals involved with any transaction that movesemployees from one company to another. Poor workforce integrationis a main cause for M&A failures and this book helps managersmake the M&A transition a more positive one by providing a planof action for the integration that focuses on ten critical steps.These steps encompass the entire M&A process from due diligenceto employee retention strategies.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471395196
• ISBN13: 9780471395195
• Release Date: April 2001
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 9.1" x 6.2"

Customer Reviews

Essential guide for HR staff

Anyone who has watched the matketplace over the last ten years has observed a couple of trends: - merger and acquisition activity is on an ever-accelerating uptrend, and- many mergers fail.Analysis of the failures in M & A typically point to the difficulty of blending disparate cultures. Hanson has codified her deep experience in managing the HR aspects of mergers and acquisitions. She has taken a complex and delicate topic, the merger of workforces with different cultures and backgrounds, and created a framework and approach that can be applied to this activity to assure a solid result. This is a solid piece of work that belongs in the library of every HR professional.