Case study: HR's role in the Oracle/Peoplesoft merger

Jessica Twentyman finds out how software giant Oracle’s HR team faced the challenge of integrating and motivating a global workforce acquired via its problematic takeover of arch rival Peoplesoft.

  • Joined-up thinking    By Jessica Twentyman, writing in Personnel Today.

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