The resistance of the personnel of mergering companies to mergering period and a sector practise.

The political, economic and technological developments experienced in recent years have transformed the world into a global market place. Consequently, companies have been competing with each other in a continuously developing and fast-changing environment. To develop different strategies from other companies gained importance in an environment where competition is very dense. At this point, mergers are one of the strategies that used by companies to protect and strengthen their positions in the market place. However, it demonstrated by the research results that many mergers fail to achieve their stated goals. It was pointed out that one of the reasons for that failure is because of the negligence of human factor and excluding human resource department or including very late in the merging process. In this study, the company mergers, the resistance of the people working in the companies which have been mergering, and the importance of the human resource management on mergers are examined. In order to determine the effects of human resorces on mergers , its reasons and consequences and the problems faces before and after the merger are focused on. In addition, the definition, historical development, functions and strategies and politics of human resource management are examined. Finally, the human resource management in case of the merger between Koçbank and Yapı ve Kredi Bankası A.Ş. and try to find the resistance of the company personells to merging period are examined.