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Volume 23, Issue 7
29 May 2007
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HR: how to make friends and influence people

Graeme Hobbs
Director at Titcheners, a firm of chartered accountants headquartered in Reading, UK. He has special responsibilities for HR and team building within the company, incorporating other practices into the business through mergers and acquisitions, and managing personnel and staffing responsibilities.
Graeme Hobbs can be contacted at: graeme.hobbs@titcheners.co.uk
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Graeme Hobbs can be contacted at: graeme.hobbs@titcheners.co.uk
Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-8588
Print ISSN: 0258-0543
© Emerald Group Publishing Limited
2007
Strategic Direction (2007) 23 (7): 3–4.
https://doi.org/10.1108/02580540710753364
Purpose

This paper examines looks at role of the human resources (HR) team during mergers or acquisitions.

Design/methodology/approach

This is a viewpoint paper.

Findings

Finds that the role of the HR department is especially important during mergers/acquisitions in promoting internal communications and perhaps changing the directions of people's careers and motivating them to want to be part of the new team.

Originality/value

The paper will be of interest to those involved with HR and team building within companies.

Keywords: Human resource management, Acquisitions and mergers, Organizational culture, Employee communications
© Emerald Group Publishing Limited
2007
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