Global Leadership Talent Management ─ Successful Selection of Global Leadership Talents As an Integrated Process

In times of globalization, global labor markets and increasingly diverse workforces, Global Leadership, Global Talent Management and integrated management systems belong to the most urgent issues and challenges for the next decade. Hence, it is not a surprise that Global Leadership and effective, integrated Global Talent Management have been identified as key success factors for global organizations. Global organizations see the world as one market for gaining the best global leadership talents. To recruit and retain the best global leaders and leadership talents worldwide, organizations must have effective (global) talent management procedures that are mutually supportive, internally consistent and correlate positively with economic success. This book illustrates integrated practices and success factors of effective Global Leadership Talent Management procedures and shows how to balance the opposing forces of global harmonization and local responsiveness. It describes how global organizations can develop an integrative conceptual framework for the (global) talent management process that sees this as an ongoing acquisition process. Acquisition connotes partnership between talent and company.

Jurgen Deters is Professor of Human Resource (HR) Management and Leadership and Academic Director of the HR Graduate Program at the Leuphana University Lueneburg (Germany). He studied Business Economics and Psychology and worked as head of the Human Resource and Leadership Development Department for one of Europe's largest media companies. He was visiting professor at the Business School, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, as well as at San Jose State University, San Jose, California, USA. He is a consultant for Human Resource Management, works as an executive coach and chairman of the supervisory board in a media company. Jurgen's current research interests include the identification and development of global leaders and international talent management.