... can the targeted organisation keep productivity and morale up while fighting off this unwanted suitor? The framework for any merger and acquisition can be described as a cycle with four distinct stages. The cycle comprises; pre-deal stage, due diligence stage, integration planning and implementation. HR tends to be involved most intensively in the last stage of the process - the implementation stage. This is where somebody else has decided the strategy and tactics leaving HR to make it happen. The second most intensive area of HR involvement is in integration planning. However, when you get to the more strategic stages of due diligence and the pre-deal stage, Hr's involvement is somewhat limited, making it difficult to provide strategic consulting. To reiterate this point, Towers Perrin consultancy firm conducted a survey in the spring of 2000 of three hundred senior HR executives around the world. Its title; How the Human Resource ...

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