Dear Colleagues,
You are cordially invited to:
Talent Management: Integrating Regional Perspectives
PDW Symposium at the Academy of Management Meeting, Orlando, FL
Date: Saturday, August 10, 2013
Time: 8:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
Location: WDW Dolphin Resort, Room Oceanic 5
Abstract
Talent Management (TM), or as it is sometimes known, Global Talent Management (GTM), has become a key focus for academic research in recent years. As with the emergence of the topic in the practitioner literature in the early 2000s, academic development of the field has been led by North American scholarship. While this scholarship has advanced our understanding considerably and provides an important base for academic enquiry, as the area of study matures the integration of different international perspectives is important in moving our understanding of GTM forward. This PDW will bring a number of leading scholars together to consider the topic of TM from different international perspectives including those of Europe, Asia-Pacific, Middle East, and North America. This PDW will build a dialogue around the universality of perspectives of GTM and introduce key regional nuances to the debate around the nature of GTM in practice. It will advance our understanding of GTM in important ways and highlight important questions and boundaries around the study of TM in an international context. It also aligns with the program's theme in unpacking how differing economic systems impact on management systems and processes in differing regions of the world and move debates on TM beyond a narrow North American conceptualization of the area.
Overview of the Workshop
Organizer and Chair: Dr. David Collings, City University Dublin, Ireland
Organizer and Co-chair: Dr. Vlad Vaiman, Reykjavik University, Iceland
Discussant: Dr. Wayne Cascio, University of Colorado, Denver, USA
Presenters (alphabetical by last name):
- Talent Management in the Far East and Australasia: Dr. Fang Lee Cooke, Monash University, Australia.
- Talent Management in Europe: Dr. Guenter Stahl, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria, and INSEAD.
- Talent Management in the Middle East and South East Asia: Dr. Kamel Mellahi, University of Warwick, UK.
- Talent Management in North America: Dr. Ibraiz Tarique, Pace University, New York City Campus, NY, USA.
A Description of Workshop's Format
The session will be conducted as a mix of a variety of formats (120 minutes overall):
- Welcome and introduction by the organizers and chair (10 minutes)
- Speaker presentations (4 presentations at 10 minutes, i.e., 40 minutes)
- Discussant's remarks (15 minutes)
- Round table discussion and Q&A with audience (45 minutes)
- Final words, future cooperation possibilities, and farewell by the organizers (10 minutes).
Everyone is welcome!