Global managerial skill-sets, management development, and the role of HR: An exploratory qualitative study with North American and Indian managers

Ever since Porter’s (1986) seminal study, much research has focused on the key factors which assure competitiveness in increasingly global marketplaces, including both business and human resource management (HRM) strategies. With respect to the latter, the importance of management development in dev...

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Main Authors: Ananthram, Subramaniam, Nankervis, Alan
Format: Journal Article
Published: Academy of Taiwan Information Systems Research 2013
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/24172
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description Ever since Porter’s (1986) seminal study, much research has focused on the key factors which assure competitiveness in increasingly global marketplaces, including both business and human resource management (HRM) strategies. With respect to the latter, the importance of management development in developing managers with global skills-sets has been a persistent theme in the literature on competitive strategy and HRM over the last decade. This paper extends such research by employing a qualitative methodology to explore the need for and identify these global skills-sets from the perspectives of fifty-six senior executives from multinational organizations in North America and India. The role of human resource (HR) departments in developing the identified skill-sets in both contexts is discussed by identifying its role in management development. The paper also presents the implications for HR professionals and practitioners and provides suggestions for future research.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-241722017-09-13T15:12:27Z Global managerial skill-sets, management development, and the role of HR: An exploratory qualitative study with North American and Indian managers Ananthram, Subramaniam Nankervis, Alan North America global mindsets Globalization human resource management management development India Ever since Porter’s (1986) seminal study, much research has focused on the key factors which assure competitiveness in increasingly global marketplaces, including both business and human resource management (HRM) strategies. With respect to the latter, the importance of management development in developing managers with global skills-sets has been a persistent theme in the literature on competitive strategy and HRM over the last decade. This paper extends such research by employing a qualitative methodology to explore the need for and identify these global skills-sets from the perspectives of fifty-six senior executives from multinational organizations in North America and India. The role of human resource (HR) departments in developing the identified skill-sets in both contexts is discussed by identifying its role in management development. The paper also presents the implications for HR professionals and practitioners and provides suggestions for future research. 2013 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/24172 10.7903/cmr.9731 Academy of Taiwan Information Systems Research fulltext
spellingShingle North America
global mindsets
Globalization
human resource management
management development
India
Ananthram, Subramaniam
Nankervis, Alan
Global managerial skill-sets, management development, and the role of HR: An exploratory qualitative study with North American and Indian managers
title Global managerial skill-sets, management development, and the role of HR: An exploratory qualitative study with North American and Indian managers
title_full Global managerial skill-sets, management development, and the role of HR: An exploratory qualitative study with North American and Indian managers
title_fullStr Global managerial skill-sets, management development, and the role of HR: An exploratory qualitative study with North American and Indian managers
title_full_unstemmed Global managerial skill-sets, management development, and the role of HR: An exploratory qualitative study with North American and Indian managers
title_short Global managerial skill-sets, management development, and the role of HR: An exploratory qualitative study with North American and Indian managers
title_sort global managerial skill-sets, management development, and the role of hr: an exploratory qualitative study with north american and indian managers
topic North America
global mindsets
Globalization
human resource management
management development
India
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/24172