Question

When two corporations merge, how are the newly-formed business entity's HR activities impacted? What activities would HR undertake to integrate the two former companies into this new entity?

Instead of valuing a company based on its debt and equity, what would be the difficulty of valuing all the assets of a business?

Answer 1

HR activities are impacted as the employees previosuly who are on two different payrolls come on single payroll. This requires merging them and issuing new IDs etc. Also a lot of processes within the two company would be reduntant or overlapping, leading to letting go of some employees, which would involve HR. Also, employees might need to be trained by the HR for new role etc.

Valuing individual asset is difficult because there is no common market for selling assets and all the assets will have to be valued individually. Example, to sell land, a lot of people might have to be approached to get its exact value and so on.