dc.contributor.advisor | Gupta, Vishal | |
dc.contributor.author | Sinha, Akanksha | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-02-11T08:47:33Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-02-11T08:47:33Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11718/22873 | |
dc.description.abstract | Mergers and acquisitions have become common for organizations that look for growth in an
efficient way. The human resource aspect of these integration processes are very important to
ensure a clean and successful completion. However, leaders ignore the human angle in most
integrations. This ignorance results in change communication which causes the integration to
fail. For this process of failure, past research has indicated many contributing factors of which
emotions are a major part. However, the linkage between communication from leaders and
success or failure of an M&A process due to the impact on emotions of employees is missing
in the past investigations. This paper develops the concept of communication of leaders giving
rise to six different categories of emotions resulting from positive or negative emotions during
the three phases of change, namely pre-integration, during integration and post-integration.
Merger syndrome and Herzberg’s two-factor theory along with cases from different
geographies and industries have been considered to conceptualize the impact of the
communication from different leaders i.e. top management team, HR leaders and Board
members; on the emotions of employees to drive the success or failure of the M&A in terms
of cultural integration, motivation & retention of employees and financial success of the
merged entity. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.publisher | Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad | en_US |
dc.subject | Organization - Merges - Acquisition | en_US |
dc.subject | Human Resource Management | en_US |
dc.subject | Employees - Characteristics | en_US |
dc.subject | Merger syndrome | en_US |
dc.subject | Two-factor theory | en_US |
dc.title | People integration during mergers and acquisitions: managing emotions & communication | en_US |
dc.type | Student Project | en_US |