Synergy

Making the new whole worth more than its old parts, sometimes described as 2+2=5. Synergies involve economies from integrating activities, horizontally or vertically; but also unrealized potential for new ideas, products or processes by melding expertise from the different sources into centres of excellence.

See also:

Balanced Scorecard
Benchmarking
Best Practice
Business Environment
Business Process Reengineering
Centralization
Change
Change Strategy
Competitive Advantage
Comprehensiveness
De-layering
Division of Labour
Divisional Structure
Downsizing
Organizational design
Organizational development (OD)
Organizational goals
Organizations
Soft HRM
Soft Planning
Strategic HRM
Talent Management

Based on the glossary section of Human Resource Management, 4th edition.

HRM Textbooks

Human Resource Management, 4th edition
by Alan Price
 Covers all the key aspects of HRM. Available from:
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Fundamentals of Human Resource Management
 Shortened version of Human Resource Management - concise analysis for non-specialists and one-semester courses.
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