Product Description: Just like the companies in which they function, teams are going global. In every corner of the world, organizations are calling upon people to communicate and cooperate across different cultures, to manage widely dispersed work groups and corporate subsidiaries, and to hurdle multiple time zones...read more

Product Description: One of the most valuable roles a manager can perform in today's rapidly changing environment is to mentor and inspire the people around them to learn. By nurturing talent, motivating individual development, and encouraging excellence, a manager's mentoring can enhance individual performance and the organization's prospects for success...read more

Product Description: This new and fully revised edition of a groundbreaking guidebook puts the action in Action Learning, clearly demonstrating how and why this powerful method for addressing today's increasingly complex organizational challenges actually works...read more

Product Description: Dozens of updated and new case studies show the Systems Learning Organization model in action and illustrate how five distinct subsystems—learning, organization, people, knowledge, and technology—support each other to enhance the quality and impact of learning. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Identifies eight new competencies that will be required by twenty-first century leaders, and profiles twelve up-and-coming leaders who exemplify them.New times demand new kinds of leaders. In a technological workplace which may be more virtual than physical, where bytes of information and cyberspace need to be managed more than people, leaders will have to thrive amidst high chaos and continuous change...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Identifies eight new competencies that will be required by twenty-first century leaders, and profiles twelve up-and-coming leaders who exemplify them.New times demand new kinds of leaders. In a technological workplace which may be more virtual than physical, where bytes of information and cyberspace need to be managed more than people, leaders will have to thrive amidst high chaos and continuous change...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Summary How and why has the global economy dramatically changed the world of work and life itself? What HRD challenges exist in a global economy that were nonexistant before? How can we make globalization a positive opportunity for all? What are some of the possible roles of human resource developers? These are just a few of the questions that this monograph explores, from a variety of perspectives-- from authors in Asia, the Middle East, Europe and the Americas; from people who serve as managers, politicians, scientists and academics; from idealists and realists who recognize the tremendous obstacles as well as the possibilities of HRD in the global economy...read more

Product Description: Used by companies as diverse as Exxon, General Electric, Arthur Andersen, and British Airways, action learning is a proven problem-solving strategy for individual, team, and organization development. In a unique blend of global examples and the personal voices of front-line managers, Marquardt provides field-tested tools to solve problems, develop individuals, and create organizational learning and success...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In an economy where companies must globalize or perish, only a few have successfully taken their business to the world level. 'The Global Advantage' zeros in on 40 preeminent global companies, located across six continents. A key feature of this book is the author's 'GlobalSuccess' model, based on the research and work he has done with hundreds of global executives around the world...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Companies worldwide are recognizing the critical importance of harnessing the learning capabilities of people and technology in the workplace. Technology-Based Learning:Maximizing Human Performance and Corporate Success shows how to capture and leverage this power, through techniques of knowledge management...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Discusses the impact of globalization on the workplace, identifies the major roles of human resources, looks at human resources programs in eleven regions, and describes world trends in human resource development