Developing Global Business Leaders

by Mendenhall, Mark E.

• ISBN13: 9781567203141
• ISBN10: 1567203140
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-10-30
• Publisher: Praeger Pub Text

Summary

The widening gap between the requirements of multinational organizations and the strategic and managerial abilities of their leaders, many of whose core experiences predated the globalization of business, has created the need for this book. Editors Mark E. Mendenhall, Torsten M. Kuhlmann, and Gunter K. Stahl have organized the results of their research--and that of their colleagues in the fields of leadership development, international management, and organizational psychology--for the benefit of scholars and practitioners alike. After surveying current practices to bring the reader up to speed on global leadership development as pursued by the United States, Germany, Japan, and with regard to women in leadership positions, the book's focus shifts to a discussion of effective organizational processes. In the third and final section, contributors analyze the research that has been done on extending human resource management functional practices--such as selection instrumentation, the use of assessment centers, multinational work groups, cross-cultural training programs, and repatriation policies--to global leadership development. The editors define and analyze global leadership and, in their review of the research, clarify exactly what we know and don't know about developing global leadership skills and what it might be profitable to learn. Practitioners will benefit from the contributors well-grounded insights into such issues as the key distinctions between global and domestic corporations, which dimensions of competency transcend internal corporate leadership dimensions, and how global leadership competencies should be developed.

Author Biography

MARK E. MENDENHALL is J. Burton Frierson Chair of Excellence in Business Leadership at the School of Business, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga.TORSTEN M. KUHLMANN is Chair of Human Resource Management at the University of Bayreuth.GUNTER K. STAHL is Assistant Professor of Human Resource Management and Leadership at the University of Bayreuth, Germany.

Table of Contents

Figures and Tables	vii
Preface	ix
Introduction: New Perspectives on Expatriate Adjustment and Its Relationship to Global Leadership Development	1	(18)
Mark E. Mendenhall
PART I Current MNC Global Leadership Development Policies and Practices
International Assignments and Careers as Repositories of Knowledge	19	(18)
Allan Bird
The Effects of International Human Resource Management Strategies on Global Leadership Development	37	(20)
Marion Festing
The German Approach to Developing Global Leaders via Expatriation	57	(16)
Torsten M. Kuhlmann
Global Leadership: Women Leaders	73	(26)
Nancy J. Adler
Building Global Leaders: Strategy Similarities and Differences among European, U.S., and Japanese Multinationals	99	(20)
Gary Oddou
Hal B. Gregersen
J. Stewart Black
C. Brooklyn Derr
PART II Processes Critical to Global Leadership
Expatriation: A Critical Step toward Developing Global Leaders	119	(18)
Zeynep Aycan
The Quest for Transformation: The Process of Global Leadership Development	137	(20)
Joyce S. Osland
Leading Global Teams: Overcoming the Challenge of the Power Paradox	157	(18)
Martha L. Maznevski
Lena Zander
Synergy Effects in Multinational Work Groups: What We Know and What We Don't Know	175	(22)
Siegfried Stumpf
Ulrich Zeutschel
PART III Extending Functional Practices in Global Leadership Development
Using Assessment Centers as Tools for Global Leadership Development: An Exploratory Study	197	(14)
Gunter K. Stahl
International Team Building: Issues in Training Multinational Work Groups	211	(14)
Alois Moosmuller
Erika Spieß
Astrid Podsiadlowski
Effective Global Leadership: The Role of Linguistic Analysis of Intercultural Communication Situations	225	(18)
Bernd Muller-Jacquier
Ellen M. Whitener
Strategic Repatriation Policies to Enhance Global Leadership Development	243	(14)
Paula M. Caligiuri
Mila Lazarova
Conclusion: Future Issues in Global Leadership Development	257	(16)
Nancy J. Adler
Edwin L. Miller
Mary Ann Von Glinow
References	273	(34)
Index	307	(6)
About the Editors and Contributors	313