Merger and Acquisition of Business Organization and Its Impact on Human Resources

Abstract

There is an assumption that, when merger and acquisition takes place, two companies join together will have greater value than the companies functioning alone, ie., to create synergy. Merger and acquisition among the companies are gaining its momentum, due to the enhanced competition among the corporates in domestic and the global market. This paper discusses about merger and acquisition and the motives behind it. Some mergers and acquisitions are unsuccessful due to some factors like financial, marketing and operational issues. Human resource problems in the merged companies also resulted in the failure of the mergers and acquisitions. So, this article proposes to discuss about HR issues at each phase of merger and acquisition, strategies to overcome the issues were also discussed.