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Change Management |
 by Karen Beaman (originally published October 2008)
Filesize: 0.67 Mb This presentation reviews the human process of change -- with all it's positive and negative emotions -- and provides a change management methodology to help organizations successfully manage the outcome of change. A sample workshop is provided at the end to get participants involved in creating strategies for effective change management in their own organizations. |
Cultural Diversity |
 by Karen Beaman (originally published October 2006)
Filesize: 2.01 Mb Global mentoring is becoming increasingly important in today's international business environment. Nevertheless, there are different considerations for mentoring executives in a global environment versus a domestic one. For example, a U.S.-based company with an international presence is likely to have needs that are different from those of a multinational organization. There are other considerations when designing and implementing a global mentoring program as opposed to a domestic mentoring program. Cultural, language and geographic challenges must be considered. This webcast explores these challenges, and best practices in process development and training for effective mentoring in global business environments. |
 by Karen V. Beaman (originally published December 2004)
Filesize: 2.71 Mb With the ever-accelerating speed of change and the ever increasing demands placed on global business, our world is both expanding and shrinking – expanding by promoting broader, more extensive contacts among countries and individuals, and simultaneously, shrinking through faster and easier access to information and people from different cultures around the world. While these paradoxical forces provide increased business opportunities, they also create more occasions for cross-cultural conflict and misunderstanding. |
Global Communications |
 by Karen V. Beaman (originally published April 2005)
Filesize: 5.80 Mb This lectures presents a model for understanding cultural differences and building awareness of the effects that culture has on language. It discuss the aspects of the international business environment and the role that culture and language play, and illustrates the application of various analytical perspectives and models from linguistics and the social sciences on international business communications with the goal of demonstrating the interdependence of the social science disciplines -- sociology, psychology, anthropology, and linguistics -- and to show their effects on various business situations. |
 by Karen V. Beaman (originally published May 2004)
Filesize: 5.08 Mb This presentation provides an introduction to the issues of communicating in a multicultural environment. Different types cultures, direct and indirect language, agreement and disagreement, lexical differences, non-verbal communciation styles, facial expressions, and meeting etiquette all vary significantly across cultures, leading to potential miscommunications and even conflict. Some recommendations are provided for understanding and improving communications in a multicultural environment. |
Global Compensation |
 by Karen Beaman and Al Walker (originally published April 2007)
Filesize: 1.16 Mb Wherever in the world your company has operations and employees, you need reliable economic indicators and compensation planning information in order to make equitable, competitive, and cost-effective business decisions that align with your global workforce strategy as well as corporate goals, policies, and practices. Knowing the right market-driven questions to ask anywhere in the world regarding salary trends, unemployment rates, inflation outlook, and anticipated GDP is critical to the success and profitability of your global organizations. |
Globalization |
 by Karen Beaman and Jim Candler (originally published April 2007)
Filesize: 7.38 Mb The business world continues to globalize. No longer limited by geography or national boundaries, companies of all size are ‘going global’—compelling HR professionals and other decision makers with significant line-of-business and value creation responsibilities to enter the unchartered territory of sustaining competitiveness worldwide using new tools in new markets. The truth is, building a world-class borderless enterprise is difficult to conceptualize, visualize, and support. The complexities of acculturation as well as the barriers of language, business practices, and international regulations contribute to a lack of organizational clarity when transcending boundaries. |
 by Karen V. Beaman (originally published January 2008)
Filesize: 1.36 Mb * Components of a Global Business Strategy * Evolution of the Modern Organization * Types of Global Organizations * Working in a Global Environment * Building a Global Service Delivery Model * Managing the Globalization Life Cycle |
Sourcing Strategies |
 by Karen V. Beaman (originally published June 2004)
Filesize: 4.45 Mb HR Outsourcing (HRO) is expanding and evolving at a phenomenal pace. Every day there are new developments in outsourcing appearing in the business news -- new vendors and alliances being formed, new deals and partnerships being cemented (or dissolved), new products and services offered, all the hype around offshoring. Outsourcing is unmistakably the Next Big Thing, and human resource outsourcing has captured the attention of today's business managers. But, how is one to make sense of it all? What works and what doesn't? How can one separate fact from fiction -- hype from hard reality? |
Talent Management |
 by Karen Beaman (originally published May 2008)
Filesize: 1.55 Mb The New Multi-Dimensional Talentforce: Implications for Managing the Emerging Multi-Generational, Multi-Cultural, Multi-Contractual, and Multi-Environmental Workforce in the 21st Century |