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Cross-Cultural Approaches to Leadership Development
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C. Brooklyn Derr, Sylvie Roussillon, Frank Bournois
Book Code: Q466
ISBN: 1-56720-466-X
ISBN-13: 978-1-56720-466-7
344 pages
Quorum Books
Publication: 5/30/2002
List Price: $110.95 (UK Sterling Price: £65.00)
Availability: Print on demand
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects: Reviews:
  • Well documented, this work is an excellent supplemental resource for readers interested in leadership, executive development, human resource development, and global issues. Graduate, research, and professional collections.
    —Choice     November 2002
  • Endorsement From Peter A. Stickler
    Director of Organizational Effectiveness for a global automotive company:     When I read something that provides insight to organization and people development dilemmas, I always take notes. I read this book, and I took a lot of notes! It provides good insight into a refined role for Human Resources professionals. You have given us significant 'food for thought.'
  • Endorsement From Carlos G. González-Santibáñiz
    Vice President for Human Resources
    Vitro S.A., Monterrey, Mexico:     Since we now live in a world without boundaries or borders, we must find the necessary tools to increase the quality of leadership worldwide. This book does an excellent job of showing the way for leaders all over the world to gain understanding and knowledge in order to be successful in the rapidly changing global environment.
  • Endorsement From Jeffrey A. Joerres
    Chairman & CEO, Manpower, Inc.:     This very comprehensive book handles a topic rarely covered on an international level: how to prepare tomorrow's managers. To identify and prepare tomorrow's leaders is the most challenging task for today's Human Resources Directors.
  • Endorsement From Mark E. Mendenhall
    J. Burton Frierson Chair of Excellence in Business Leadership
    University of Tennessee, Chattanooga:     This book, like no other, fleshes out the complexities of leadership development across cultures, yet also offers insightful and practical advice on how to go about developing leaders within the global business environment. Executives and human resource managers working in global firms will benefit greatly from the ideas, analysis, and recommendations contained in this book.
  • Endorsement From Jérôme Duval-Hamel
    Senior Executive Vice-President, Human Resources
    Cegetel Group and Vivendi Universal Net:     For those of us who select and develop global leaders, this book helps us understand how it is done in different countries. It enlightens our understanding of a complex subject and underscores that the concept of leadership is culturally embedded.
Description: Leadership development is critical to organizational competitive advantage. The key to successful leadership development programs lies in understanding the complex and always-shifting interplay of national culture, organizational culture, program dynamics, and individual differences. Editors Derr, Roussillon, and Bournois explain the interrelationships among these influences, demonstrating how national culture may play a greater role in leadership development programs in some countries than in other countries. Contributors present varying viewpoints from the United States, France, the United Kingdom, Japan, the Netherlands, Poland, Germany, Italy, China, Vietnam, Israel, Africa, and Latin America. Perspectives on leadership management in changing organizations, on fast-track executives, and on the perspective of a clinical psychologist are included. In addition, the editors have included a discussion of the diversity-collaboration model, a highly useful tool for modulating the pendulum swings between the two extremes. In this context, diversity in the extreme is exemplified by a fluid, mobile, global labor force in which the risks include lack of unifying goals, lack of loyalty to the firm, and lack of effective action. The converse--collaboration in the extreme--is characterized by so much internal socialization, integration, and homogeneity that creativity is squelched and innovation is stifled. Preparing future leaders effectively entails straddling the middle by integrating highly acculturated, loyal, dedicated insiders with free agents culled from the global talent pool. The various chapters on leadership development as practiced in both developed and developing countries provide valuable insight into the utility of the diversity-collaboration model. Human resource managers, leadership development consultants, and organizational behavior consultants as well as their academic colleagues will find this work tremendously useful.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction by C. Brooklyn Derr, Sylvie Roussillon, and Frank Bournois
  • Cross-Cultural Approaches to Leadership Development
  • Managing Leadership in the United States by C. Brooklyn Derr, Jon P. Briscoe, and Kathy Buckner
  • New Wine in Old Bottles: The Challenges of Developing Leaders in Latin America by Joseph C. Bently
  • Identifying and Developing Future Leaders in France by Sylvie Roussillon and Frank Bournois
  • Attaining Leadership Positions in France by Sylvie Roussillon
  • The Management of High Potential--U.K. Perspectives by Noeleen Doherty and Shaun Tyson
  • Highfliers in Germany by Michel Petit and Christian Scholz
  • Leadership Italian Style by Luciano Traquandi and Patrizia Castelluci
  • Grooming Leaders in the Netherlands by Daniel F.J. Vloeberghs
  • Selecting Leaders in Poland During the Transition Period by Czeslaw J. Szmidt
  • Leadership Commitment, Women, and the Japanese System by Mami Taniguchi
  • Managing Talent in China: Confucian Origins by Changjun Dai and Zhi-guang Zheng
  • From Revolutionaries to Political Entrepreneurs: Selecting Leaders for China's Modern State-Owned Enterprises by Xuchang Yang
  • Developing Future Leaders for Vietnam's Market Economy by Nguyen Hoang
  • The Role of the Army in Developing High-Potential Israeli Executives by Daniel Rouach
  • Preparing African Leaders by Evalde Mutabazi
  • Developing Leaders: Theoretical Perspectives
  • Changing Organizations and Leadership Management by William S. Hesterly and C. Brooklyn Derr
  • Toward Strategic Management for Fast-Track Executives by Frank Bournois
  • Perspectives from a Clinical Psychologist by Sylvie Roussillon
  • Conclusion by C. Brooklyn Derr , Sylvie Roussillon, and Frank Bournois
LC Card Number: 2001019587
LCC Class: HD57
Dewey Class: 658
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