1st Edition

Employee Communication During Mergers and Acquisitions

By Jenny Davenport, Simon Barrow Copyright 2009
190 Pages
by Routledge

190 Pages
by Routledge

190 Pages
by Routledge

Communication is the key to organisational success and nowhere is this truism more apparent than in the influence of internal communication during a transformational process as dramatic as a merger or acquisition. During the complex process of bringing the two sets of employees together, continuous effort is crucial for keeping in touch with how people feel; communicating information clearly... Read more
Introduction; Chapter 1 Stage One: The Strategic Need �€“ Before a Partner is Identified; Chapter 2 Stage Two: Due Diligence; Chapter 3 Stage Three: The Initial Announcement; Chapter 4 Stage Four: From the Announcement to Day One; Chapter 5 Stage Five: The First 100 Days; Chapter 6 Stage Six: Establishing an Employer Brand for the Merged Organisation;

Biography

Jenny Davenport is a Director of People in Business, a consultancy specialising in the people aspects of change and mergers, communication, top team relationships, employee relations and surveys. She was previously employed by The Industrial Society, in a range of management roles, and by Charles Barker, then the largest PR Agency in Europe. She has worked in the USA, Australia and France as well as in the UK. She was instrumental in launching the Employee Communications Association in April 1994 and is author of a number of books on communication. Simon Barrow is Chairman and founder of People in Business and creator of the Employer Brand concept aiming to bring the best of brand management to people at work. This approach emerged from the two main themes of his career - brand management working for Best Foods (now Unilever) and for Colgate -Palmolive and secondly in researching and understanding employees and their management, in particular during the 30 M&A transactions he has worked on. He is co-author with Richard Mosley of 'The Employer Brand' (published by Wiley in 2005 and now in six languages).