Developing Global Business Leaders: Policies, Processes, and Innovations

“Developing Global Leaders is a book which scholars and international managers have been waiting for. Blending tha work of an impressive group of North American and European writers, Mark Mendenhall, Torsten Kuehlmann, and Guenter Stahl have assembled a rich resource of information on current practices, critical processes and new developments concerning global leadership development which is a key driver of successful global enterprises. This book will be a valuable resource for researchers, MBA students, and managers.”-Peter J. Dowling University of Tasmania Australia

“If, as the authors suggest, leadership involves setting ideas, people, and organizations…in motion, ‘ they have indeed demonstrated such leadership themselves in this stimulating text. Putting aside the current rhetoric on the importance of global leadership, they have instead grappled substantively with the core issues facing multinational organizations. While we all once thought locally, we now must act globally. The editors have gathered an insightful group of authors who reflect on both the theory and practice of global leadership development. The result is that they have surely set new ideas, people, and organizations in motion!”-Janet M. Bennett, Ph.D. Director Intercultural Communication Institute

“This book contains a wealth of fresh knowledge–timely, well balanced, well selected, and readable signposts that will enhance any global leader’s thinking about global leadership development. It also contains many what to do’ suggestions that will challenge and guide fast track program architects in internationalizing their international human resource devlopment strategies. Here is a wide range of useful, fascinating, and provocative mental constructs–products from mainly German thinking factories’ that are solidly founded in thorough and painstaking research. Today’s global leaders who wish to ensure that their young and talented global leaders of tomorrow will be competitvely capable in the global market place should make urgent use of this book by selecting and implementing particularly relevant and strategically useful items in their organizations very soon.”-Josef Fritsch, Vice President Corporate Area HR: Leadership Development Siemens AG.

“This book is a must read’ for all business people who need to know what it takes to thrive and not just survive in today’s hyperspeed global business world. A real find.”-Mary Beth Lamb Director, Global Effectiveness Wilson Learning

“This book is required reading for academics and business executives alike. Developing true global leaders for the New Economy is a necessity for survival as well as a recipe for success. Go get it today or suffer the consequences of global ignorance!”-Professor Jan Selmer, Ph.D. Hong Kong Baptist University

.,.”this book contains a great deal of important information for both academics and practitioners. It will be very helpful to organizations just starting to develop their own competency models.”-Personnel Psychology

?…this book contains a great deal of important information for both academics and practitioners. It will be very helpful to organizations just starting to develop their own competency models.?-Personnel Psychology

…”this book contains a great deal of important information for both academics and practitioners. It will be very helpful to organizations just starting to develop their own competency models.”-Personnel Psychology

TORSTEN M. KÜHLMANN is Chair of Human Resource Management at the University of Bayreuth. He serves as a reviewer of Ergonomics, Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, Zeitschrift für Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie, and Journal of Applied Psychology. A member of several advisory committees, he also belongs to the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie.

GÜNTER K. STAHL is Assistant Professor of Human Resource Management and Leadership at the University of Bayreuth, Germany. He has published books and articles in the field of leadership development, cross-cultural management, and international human resource management, in particular the management of expatriates. He has conducted research projects in Japan and the United States, and his current research interests include careers in multinational corporations, trust within and between organizations, and integration processes in mergers and acquisitions. He has also done consulting work for various organizations, including DaimlerChrysler, Siemens, and Lufthansa.