The human side of mergers and acquisitions - HP & Apollo Computer

Understanding and Managing Human Resource Integration Issues Companies have engaged in domestic and international mergers and acquisitions over the last few years to match the macroeconomic trends operating on a worldwide scale in the marketplace. Yet the ultimate success of a company's global strategy may depend on how well it manages the often-vexsome human resource "fit" issues associated with strategic customer-centered decisions and strategies. This paper presents a human resource model that can be used …

…professionals can play an important role in helping individuals to learn new values (espoused theories) and behaviors (theories-inuse) that will begin to interrupt organizational defensive routines and create organizational learning processes and systems that encourage double-loop learning in ways that persist. Future research is needed, however, in other merger and acquisition situations to validate the usefulness of this approach in reducing the often-vexsome human resource "fit" issues associated with strategic business decisions and customer-centered strategies.