Leading the Global Workforce: Best Practices from Linkage, Inc.

by Louis Carter, Phil Harkins (Editor)

Leading the Global Workforce provides a handy guide for international organizations that must achieve results in managing and sustaining a global workforce. The fourteen illustrative cases outlined address the major concerns&;recruiting and developing global leaders, global organizational learning, cross-cultural communication, outsourcing line functions, and managing global careers and transitions&;from sixty of the world&;s best-practice global organizations.  Each case shows how the organization advanced a global business strategy with a new initiative in the areas of global leadership development, cultural change, career transition, succession planning, change management, outsourcing, and global performance. In addition, Leading the Global Workforce also describes the overall strategy, planning, and implementation of the initiative; feedback from participants; and overall evaluation of results. Many of the cases contain competency models, practical tools, instruments, and materials that were most effective.

320 pages, Hardcover

First published December 2, 2005

About the author

Louis Carter is CEO and President of Best Practice Institute, an association and management consulting firm specializing in helping organizations and C-suite senior executives achieve their market strategy through organization learning, action learning, and HR SaaS software.
He is the creator of bestpracticeinstitute.org, a social networking, learning and benchmarking platform providing immediate access to industry companies, on-demand learning and senior executives executives, alongside its skillrater.com, a next generation SaaS anytime 360-degree tool using social collaboration, a top HR Product of the year by Human Resources Executive Magazine. Author of nearly a dozen books on best practices and organizational leadership.
Published by Jossey Bass/John Wiley and Sons, they include Change Champions, Best Practices in Talent Management, Best Practices in Leadership Development and Organization Change and Leading the Global Workforce.