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The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Wellbeing is a comprehensive and cutting-edge work providing the latest insights into a range of perspectives on organizational wellbeing, as well as highlighting global wellbeing issues and exploring new contexts. Topics covered include: digital working and social media, LGBTQIA+ identifications and work, suicide at work, refugee workers, and mental health. A multi- and inter-disciplinary work, this handbook embraces ideas and empirical work from a range of fields including psychology, business and management, economics, and science. This handbook draws together current knowledge whilst also outlining emerging issues and directions, making this an invaluable resource for students and researchers spanning a wide array of disciplines. Part 1: Theoretical Perspectives; Part 2: International Issues and Contexts; Part 3: Developing Organizational Wellbeing; and Part 4: Emerging Issues and Directions.
Mergers, Acquisitions and Wellbeing in Organizational Life: The Critical Role of Human Resources
Mergers, Acquisitions and Wellbeing in Organizational Life: The Critical Role of Human Resources
Introduction
When companies pay close attention to the people aspects of a merger or an acquisition, they greatly increase the chances that the deal will fulfill its promise. That's why, in the final analysis, HR can make or break an M and A. (Giffin and Schmidt, 2002: 9)
Mergers and acquisitions (herein referred to as ‘M and A’, ‘combinations’, ‘deals’, or ‘transactions’) are tools companies use to improve organizational performance and increase competitive advantage by maximizing synergy and efficiencies. They are often described as creating a situation wherein ‘2 + 2 = 5’ ...
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