Over 70% of all mergers and acquisitions are doomed to fail according to Harvard Business Review. When deals fail, they destroy billions of dollars in value, affecting companies, employees, retirees, and communities. Over a quarter of business leaders say avoidable problems with people, leadership, and culture are the primary cause of deal failure. This means the key to a successful M&A requires you to uncover significant people issues before it's too late! The HR Practitioner's Guide to Mergers & Acquisitions Due Diligence shows you how to avoid the HR headaches that arise in M&A-and make your deals more likely to beat the odds. In this step-by-step guide, Dr. Klint Kendrick, who has personally led dozens of deals and is Chair of the HR M&A Roundtable, provides practical teachings, tools, and techniques to help you understand: how people, leadership, and culture issues will determine if your M&A is a success or failure, the six vital areas HR must explore for your due diligence efforts to make a difference, eight powerful methods for extracting critical data from the information ecosystem so you can uncover problems earlier, four fundamental ways to mitigate the HR risks that will doom your deal to failure if they're not addressed, a no-nonsense approach to assessing and retaining top talent during M&A, ensuring business continuity and maximizing value capture
