Human resource management in mergers business

HI ABSTRACT HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT İN MERGERS BUSINESS Nilüfer YÖRÜK KARAKILIÇ Business Mainscience Branch Afyon Kocatepe University Social Science Institute October 2002 Advisor: Doç. Dr. Bellas ÖZKARA In this study, we examine the mergers and the effects of the merger on human resource management. In order to determine the effects of the merger, we focus on the definition and the types of the merger, its reasons and consequences and the problems faced before and after the merger from the perspective of the Turkish Trade Low. In addition, we survey the definition, historical development, functions and strategies and politics of human resource management. Furthermore, we study the human resource management in the mergers and the synchrnization of human resource management practices, politics and stratejies and systems and processes. In the emprical section we consider the mergers in Turkey. We examine the human recource management in case of the merger between Oyakbank and Sümerbank and find that the mergers have considerable effects on the human resource departments of the companies. We conclude that to succeed in mergers, it is a necessity to pay close attention to the human fiictor in mergers.