Voluntary Turnover during Mergers and Acquisitions:: Causes, consequences, and possible retention strategies

Voluntary Turnover during Mergers and Acquisitions:: Causes, consequences, and possible retention strategies

This book describes the process that leads employees to resign voluntarily, analyses specific situations M&A´s might create,and presents different intervention methods human resource practitioners can proactively take to avoid costly turnover. The aim is to raise awareness for voluntary turnover, foster the understanding of difficulties that might arise during the integration of two companies, and based on these findings contribute to create and implement innovative retention strategies through integrated human resource mangement practices coupled with specific targeted interventions during this organizational change process in order to retain motivated employees. Although individual decisions and the resulting paths employees choose may vary considerably, tendencies have been identified that allow to gain valuable insights to shape employee perceptions, target retention strategies,and accompany and support employees to manage this transition as smoothly as possible for themselves as well as for the organizations the employees form(ed) part of based on the findings of voluntary turnover research, equity- and organizational justice theory, and change management literature.