Synopses & Reviews
Comprehensive in scope, this timely book provides an overview of global HRD, as well as specific information about global competencies, best practices, programs, and opportunities. Authors Michael J. Marquardt and Dean W. Engel examine in-depth how globalization and culture affect the workplace and the profession of human resource development. They identify and describe the four major roles of the HRD practitioner and examine the critical importance of HRD in enabling global corporations, public agencies, nonprofit organizations, and world-wide associations to become and remain successful.
Additional content highlights:
- Surveys eleven regions of the world in terms of their cultural, economic, and HRD environment.
- Profiles more than fifty HRD programs around the world that have received national and global acclaim and recognition.
- Explores career opportunities in five organizational categories: corporations, consulting firms, public interenational, government, and private nonprofit agencies.
- Details the sixteen competencies most frequently mentioned by global employers and HRD professionals as being essential for success in global human resource development.
- Identifies fourteen global HRD megatrends that will have an impact on human resource development around the world and describes how leading-edge organizations and HRD professionals are already incporporating these trends in their strategic planning.
Synopsis
Providing an overview of global human resource development as well as specific information about its various areas of concern, this new text outlines the latest competencies, practices, programs, and opportunities in this growing field. It looks at the foundations for global hrd, hrd practices and programs around the world, career opportunities in global hrd, and the future of global hrd. For human resources professionals.
Synopsis
Providing an overview of global human resource development as well as specific information about its various areas of concern, this new text outlines the latest competencies, practices, programs, and opportunities in this growing field. It looks at the foundations for global hrd, hrd practices and programs around the world, career opportunities in global hrd, and the future of global hrd. For human resources professionals.
Table of Contents
I. FOUNDATIONS FOR GLOBAL HRD. 1. Globalization and HRD. 2. Culture and HRD.
II. PRACTICES OF GLOBAL HRD. 3. Developing Training Programs for International Settings.
4. Delivery of Training Programs Around the World.
5. Consulting Across Cultures.
6. Administration of Global HRD Programs.
III. HRD IN GLOBAL ORGANIZATIONS. 7. HRD in Global Corporations.
8. Public and Nonprofit Global Organizations.
9. HRD and Globalizing the Organization.
IV. HRD PRACTICES AND PROGRAMS AROUND THE WORLD. 10. Western Europe.
11. Eastern Europe.
12. Middle East and North Africa.
13. Africa.
14. South Central Asia.
15. East Asia.
16. Japan.
17. South Pacific Region.
18. Canada.
19. Latin America and Caribbean.
20. United States of America.
V. ENTERING THE GLOBAL HRD FIELD. 21. Career Opportunities in Global HRD.
22. Competencies for the Effective Global HRD Practitioner.
23. Preparation for Global HRD Assignments.
VI. FUTURE OF GLOBAL HRD. 24. Global HRD Megatrends.
Subject Index.
Name Index.