HRM-5011: Global Talent Development and Management

Ran, S., & Huang, J. L. (2019). Enhancing adaptive transfer of cross-cultural training: Lessons learned from the broader training literature. Human Resource Management Review, 29(2), 239–252.
This article argues that evaluation of cross-cultural training effectiveness should adopt comprehensive criteria, including cognitive, skill-based, and affective learning outcomes and adaptive transfer.

Parrilla, R. (Practitioner). (2016). Cross-cultural management [Video]. SAGE Knowledge.
This author discusses her work in cross-cultural training and how she found the career. Knowing how to mediate and respect other cultures can be very important to businesses, particularly international businesses and those who have a multicultural workforce.

English, T., & Alagaraja, M. (2017). Delivering instruction and training to the U.S. and the non-U.S. audiences: An interview with Dr. Hardy MacKenzie. Human Resource Development International, 20(3), 253–261.
This interview was conducted to identify best practices and methods of delivering training programs for the U.S. and the non-U.S. audiences. Topics for discussion involved understanding the importance of preparing instructional content, identifying approaches and techniques for capturing, and sustaining participants' attention.

Lynch, S. E., & Mors, M. L. (2019). Strategy implementation and organizational change: How formal reorganization affects professional networks. Long Range Planning, 52(2), 255–270.
This paper considers how formal structural change affects senior managers’ ability to maintain their intra-organizational networks. Strategy implementation is complex, mainly as it often requires changes in the formal organizational structures. This paper also discusses how network ties highly embedded in the social structure are more likely to be affected by the change in the traditional structures.

Misko, J., & National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) (Australia). (2020). Traditional trade apprenticeships: Training activity, employer incentives, and international practice. Research Report. In National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER). National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER).
This report is based on a study investigating training practices relating to traditional trade apprenticeships to develop policy directions on maintaining their relevance and usefulness. The study explores data on trends in training activity and completions provide details on the application of incentives, and highlights international apprenticeship models and practice, as identified in the relevant literature.