Executive Development and Organizational Learning for Global Business

by Kaynak; Erdener

• ISBN13: 9780789004796
• ISBN10: 0789004798
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1998-03-31
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

An essential reference book for you and your global organization, Executive Development and Organizational Learning for Global Business will guide you through the challenge of producing effective executives and masterminding learning organizations. In this cutting-edge overview, you'll share in the success stories of some of the most tried-and-true, top-selling authors in the world such as Peter Senge and Rosabeth Moss Kanter. Considered a "must-have" handbook for development managers, Executive Development and Organizational Learning for Global Business gives you a unique perspective on the major challenges you'll face when setting up your executive education program. Anyone creating a comprehensive game plan for a large global organization will want to be familiar with the informative practices in this book. In its concise and straightforward chapters, you'll read about: cross-cultural challenges of executive development tools and techniques for developing international executives experiential issues and action learning in global organizations anticipatory learning for global concerns Today, more than ever, piloting your global organization through a world of changing management systems and executive development programs can be overwhelming. But the unique perspectives you'll find in this time-saving collection will start you off right. So, whether you're a human resource development practitioner, a human resource executive, or an academic in human resource development, you'll profit from the bevy of intellectual insight and real-world experience that some of the world's most successful authorities have organized for you in the pages of Executive Development and Organizational Learning for Global Business.

Table of Contents

About the Editors
Contributors
Introduction: Seven Imperatives for Executive Education and Organizational Learning in the Global World	p. 1
Anticipatory Learning for Global Organizations	p. 15
Do Cultural Differences Make a Business Difference? Contextual Factors Affecting Cross-Cultural Relationship Success	p. 23
Managing Globally Competent People	p. 49
Creating a High-Performance International Team	p. 73
Selecting Training Methodology for International Managers	p. 91
Creating Scenarios and Cases for Global Anticipatory Learning	p. 117
A Culture-General Assimilator: Preparation for Various Types of Sojourns	p. 129
Action Learning: Executive Development of Choice for the 1990s	p. 151
Case Studies of International Management Development	p. 161
Systems Dynamics and Anticipatory Learning	p. 181
Microworlds and Simuworlds: Practice Fields for the Learning Organization	p. 193
The Multinational Management Game: A Simuworld	p. 215
Leadership in a Global Village: Creating Practice Fields to Develop Learning Organizations	p. 229
Summary: What We Learned About the Seven Imperatives	p. 243
Resources and Materials for the Global Learning Organization	p. 253
Index	p. 257
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