Employers should strive to provide employees with career development opportunities as part of the organization's overall talent management and succession planning efforts. Employers may use data from this form to inform strategic decisions regarding the organization's overall training and development programs, to explore available educational partnerships and to align total rewards programs to business goals.
Company restructures like mergers or acquisitions are a tremendous opportunity for HR professionals to really shine. HR needs to be proactive in preparing for the restructure and should take the lead in gathering information from both companies (or more) and conducting a comparison study or a "cultural compatibility assessment." The results of that study are so significant that they can affect the price of the acquisition, set the course of the new company's trajectory, or even raise issues that cancel a merger or acquisition altogether.