- Provides practical and realistic solutions to real-world problems
- Concisely draws upon the authors' wide-ranging practical and research experience in conducting due diligence assignments in organisations in China
- Written by highly knowledgeable and well-respected practitioners in the international Human Resource Management field
Table of Contents
Dedication
List of figures and table
About the authors
Preface
Chapter 1: An overview
Abstract:
China and the Chinese
M&A activities in China
Chapter 2: Cultivating affective relationships
Abstract:
Relations and relationships
Chapter 3: Introducing HR due diligence
Abstract:
M&A from a HRM perspective
Human resource due diligence
Role and activities of HR due diligence by phase
Chapter 4: Conducting HR due diligence
Abstract:
The strategic objectives
The organisational perspective
The legal perspective
The costs perspective
Chapter 5: Navigating beyond relationships
Abstract:
Being truthful
HR risk assessment
The risk assessment process
Formulating mitigation plans
Chapter 6: Managing integration
Abstract:
Ties that bind
Handing/taking over process
Structural integration
Cultural integration
Cultivating relationships
Conclusion
Appendix: checklist for conducting a HR due diligence
References
Index