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HR Strategy For
Mergers and Acquisitions

Our specialists help to ensure that the strategic intentions of clients’ Mergers / Acquisitions and Restructuring materialize, by addressing the people factor with the correct level of involvement by Human Resources.


Only by assuring that the human factor is not handled in a silo, separately from other operational aspects, can the organizational re-engineering or re-integration be completed fluidly. The scope of the people factor that needs to be addressed in an M&A or restructuring initiative is more far-reaching than just the cultural and change acceptance aspects, but also includes the differences in job duties; technologies; policies; skills and compensation structures. In other words, a broader Organizational Development perspective is required.


HR Strategy For
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Merger and Acquisitions and Restructuring Challenges:
  • How do we mesh together the differing values, culture and people policies in our M&A ?
  • In our restructuring / M&A, which roles should be dispensed with, and how do we sensitively handle the resulting redundancies ?
  • Job expansion or enrichement, and cross-functionality will be met with resistance from people who are retained.
  • How do we minimize the potential disruption to critical daily operations and ultimately, the customer ?
  • How do we re-configure our organizational structure for the M&A ?
  • The employees that we retain after the M&A / restructuring will have gaps in soft and technological skills and leadership
  • We face reputational and employer brand risk from the redundancies stemming from our restructuring / M&A.
  • Our staff are unsettled, demotivated, and are making plans to leave; this could sabotage the planned benefits of our M&A.
  • Talent & Transformation conducts culture audits to accurately diagnose your prevailing culture, as a basis for targeted, customized improvement plans.
  • We work with leadership and H.R to articulate a shared purpose, values, and behaviors that drive your brand, objectives and vision.
  • Our team crafts and implements culture transformation strategies that result in enduring change
  • We partner with HR to craft programs, policies and practices, that are enablers of your aspirational culture
  • Our consulting team develops engagement and communication plans to align leadership and teams on prevailing state and desired future state of culture
  • Talent & Transformation enables and equips leaders to model and lead culture change
  • Our Leadership Assessments give you visibility on which leaders are living and promoting your values and desired culture.
  • We develop compelling stories to engage employees around culture change, and tools for you to continually assess the culture