The Management of People in Mergers and Acquisitions - Hardcover

by Theresa Daniel (Author), Gary Metcalf (Author)

Financials alone don't make an M&A deal work. Equally important is what's behind them--an organization's people. How to understand this reality and benefit from it is the thrust of this unusually comprehensive, practical, readable, but conceptually rigorous book. Daniel and Metcalf see HR executives as change agents during the delicate maneuverings before a deal is done, and then after, when it's time to tackle the fine-grained problems of integrating disparate corporate cultures and the people who vitalize them. They examine the recent and ongoing waves of mergers and acquisitions across industries, setting them in the broader context of organizational change. With concepts, theory, and real-life examples drawn from their long, impressive experience as consultants and executives, Daniel and Metcalf provide step-by-step guidance through the stages common to all corporate combinations. They define and explain the roles to be played in the process by HR professionals and executives elsewhere in the organization, and show how, by interacting productively with each other, they will thus maximize the total contribution to the success of any corporate transaction.

Author Biography

TERESA A. DANIEL is Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer of Special Metals Corporation in Huntington, West Virginia. She began her career as a corporate transactional attorney, then moved to HR management, where she now specializes in employment law, employee benefits, corporate communications, corporate strategy and policy development, and executive/director compensation. Experienced in the public as well as the private sector, she is the author of numerous journal articles and is an active teacher and lecturer to professional civic groups. her fields.

GARY S. METCALF is Senior Manager, InterConnections, LLC, a consultancy in Ashland, Kentucky, specializing in organizational change, particularly those that arise during the course of mergers and acquisitions./e He has published a number of journal articles. Formerly a manager and internal consultant in several Fortune 200 corporations, he has also been a counselor and family therapist for non-profit community agencies. His most recent work focuses on the theoretical aspects of organizational change and development and their impact on people.