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Global Talent Management During Times of Uncertainty

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Talent Management

Series editors: Vlad Vaiman and David Collings

This series focuses on talent management, one of the fastest growing areas of research in the areas of business and management. As a topic it bridges a number of core management areas, including HRM, Organisational Psychology, Strategy and International Business.

The series features monographs and edited collections exploring both research and practical perspectives on contemporary talent management. The main aim of the series is to provide a key outlet for scholars wishing to publish novel perspectives on talent and talent management from across disciplinary divides. It also provides an opportunity for those seeking to explore new and innovative issues and topics in this area in greater depth. The series will bring together emerging theoretical approaches with real world practitioner perspectives from across a range of subjects in this field, including (but not limited to):

• Employer branding

• Talent analytics

• Global talent management

• Talent turnover

• Talent retention

• Talent development

• Talent and teams

• Distribution of performance

• Transferability of performance

• Contextual performance

• Performance and potential

• Talent management in SMEs

• Talent management in the public sector

• Talent management in developing economies

Previous volumes in this series:

• Talent Management in Small Advanced Economies

  Edited by Snejina Michailova and Dana L. Ott

• Managing Talent: A Critical Appreciation

  Edited by Stephen Swailes

• Global Talent Retention: Understanding Employee Turnover Around the World

  Edited by David Allen and James Vardaman

• Talent Management: A Decade of Developments

  Edited by David G. Collings, Vlad Vaiman and Hugh Scullion

Forthcoming volumes in this series:

• Talent Management Innovations in the International Hospitality Industry

  Edited by Stefan Jooss, Ralf Burbach and Huub Ruël

• Talent Management in Higher Education

  Edited by Marian Thunnissen and Paul Boselie

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Global Talent Management During Times of Uncertainty

EDITED BY

FRANCINE SCHLOSSER

University of Windsor, Canada

AND

DEBORAH M. MCPHEE

Brock University, Canada

United Kingdom – North America – Japan India – Malaysia – China

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First edition 2023

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About the Contributors

Ali Abdulhussein is an Instructor of Engineering Management and Entrepreneurship at the University of Windsor. He is also the Director for the Master of Engineering Management program at the University. Previously, he earned his MBA from Simon Fraser University, as well as a Master of Computer Engineering from the University of British Columbia. He also possesses extensive experience in technology start-up advising and international partnerships. Ali’s current research is related to the utilisation of data and information analytics techniques in management.

Dr Torben Andersen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Business Development and Technology (Herning) at Aarhus University, Denmark. His research has been concentrating on structural, strategic and change aspects of HRM and international HRM. He has three periods as a visiting Professor – at San Francisco State University (2000), University of Auckland, New Zealand (2005) and Bamberg University (2016). He has been teaching in a variety of countries from Iceland, Germany, UK, China, New Zealand to US.

Dr Marcia Carvalho de Azevedo is an Associate Professor at the Business Administration program at Federal University of São Paulo (Unifesp). Her research interests are human resources, ageing workers, entrepreneurship and research methodology. She has published papers in academic journals, such as Personnel Review, International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour & Research, and Knowledge and Process Management. Prior to academia she has worked as Project Manager and Consultant in both the private and public sectors.

Dr Andrei Kuznetsov is Professor of International CSR at Lancashire School of Business and Enterprise and a Deputy Director of the Lancashire Institute for Economic and Business Research. Prior to joining the academia in the United Kingdom, he had conducted research at the European University Institute, Florence, and KU Leuven. His research interests include CSR, cross-cultural management, corporate governance, responsible business practices in international business contexts and institutional analysis. He has authored several books and book chapters and edited scholarly volumes. He has published in leading international journals, including JIBS, Journal of Comparative Economics, Journal of Small Business Management, Business Ethics Quarterly, ISMO and Thunderbird International Business Review.

Dr Olga Kuznetsova has worked in academia for over 30 years, of which more than 20 years at Manchester Metropolitan University (UK), where currently she is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of Place Management and Centre for Policy Modelling. Her research published internationally, centres on transitioning societies, especially the economic agents’ responses to changing institutional and business environments. Much of her work observes the transition of Russia into a market economy and the development of new business practices and competences there, including corporate governance expertise and CSR. Her current research portfolio also includes cooperative economy and hybrid organisations. She is an Associate Editor of the Encyclopedia of the Sustainable Development Goals: Transforming the World We Want.

Linyu Liu is a doctoral candidate of International Business at Aalto University. Her research interests relate to subsidiary power and micropolitics, cross-border movements of organisational practices within multinationals and global talent management. She is focused on two research projects in her PhD: one is focused on how foreign multinationals can attract, develop and retain technical talent from the emerging markets; another involves a large-scale survey on foreign subsidiaries in Finland, seeking to better understand how and why firms disperse their management activities geographically.

Sunil Kumar Maheshwari is an Alum of IIT Delhi and IIM Ahmedabad. Before entering academia in 1998 he worked with BHEL and Indian Railways. His work experience also includes Advisor to Minister of HRD from 2009 to 2013. His research, consulting and teaching interests are strategic and international HRM, and business turnaround. His book titled Turnaround Excellence, based on his research study of six turnaround cases, is published by Penguin Books India. His research is widely published in both national and international journals, such as the Indian Journal of Industrial Relations and International Journal of Human Resource Management. He has been a Consultant and Board Member to many large national and international organisations.

Dr Deborah M. McPhee (née Zinni) is the former Associate Dean of Undergraduates and AACSB, and Department Chair at the Goodman School of Business at Brock University. As a full Professor, she possesses over 25 years of senior Human Resources Management experience. She has authored numerous refereed journal articles in highly ranked outlets, HRM textbooks, book chapters and case studies. Her research interests’ focus on HRM policies, attraction and retention of talent related to ageing workers, mid-to-late career transitions, migrant workers, and young workers in Health & Safety. She is the recipient of two national awards for teaching and advancing HRM and Health and Safety as a field of study.

Dr Jody L. Ralph is an Associate Professor and the Acting Associate Dean of Graduate Programs in the Faculty of Nursing at the University of Windsor. As a Scientist and Registered Nurse, she has training and experience in basic science research, bedside cancer care and the university academic setting. For the past two years, she has been a Member of a Psychology/Nursing research team and they have completed three studies on the impact of COVID-19 on nurses and healthcare workers in hospitals (CIHR and university funded; multiple publications in journals, e.g., Journal of Health Organization Management and Health Policy).

Dr Erling Rasmussen is a Professor of Work and Employment at AUT (Auckland University of Technology) in New Zealand. He has worked in employment relations in academia, the public and private sectors and in several countries since the late 1970s and has undertaken research for government, businesses and unions. He has had several management positions at both AUT and University of Auckland and has published many articles on employment relations topics. He is an Editor of New Zealand Journal of Employment Relations and has edited and co-authored many textbooks.

Dr Prantika Ray is a Faculty Member in the Organizational Behavior and Human Resources area at the Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode. She is one of the only nine global awardees of the prestigious Paul R. Lawrence Fellowship at the North American Case Research Association 2021. She has published in reputed peer-reviewed journals like International Journal of Knowledge Management, Journal of Global Mobility, etc. She has written multiple case studies that are registered in reputed case outlets such as the Harvard Business School Publishing. She has presented her papers in reputed international conferences including the Academy of Management, European Academy of management and British Academy of Management.

Mitch Rufca is a Senior Lecturer at Loyola Marymount University, where he teaches classes on professional recruiting. He is also an Instructor at UCLA Extension, teaching classes on talent acquisition to students earning their HR Certificate at UCLA. He is a Board Member of the Los Angeles Chapter of the National Human Resources Association, and he frequently speaks to different associations about job search strategies and resume preparation, and has published articles in the Los Angeles Paralegal Association and Orange County Paralegal publications. He has a BS from Indiana University, an MBA from Pepperdine University and over 20 years of recruiting experience. His experience has ranged from aerospace to engineering, with the last 10 years focused on growing his company, Rufca Recruiting Services LLC; as they focus on administrative, legal and technical support to law firms and Fortune 500 companies.

Hanna Salminen works as a Research Specialist in the Faculty of Management and Business at Tampere University, Finland. She is also a Project Researcher (part-time) and a Docent at Jyväskylä University School of Business and Economics, Finland. She has published articles in a variety of reputable journals such as Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management, Journal of Clinical Nursing, International Studies of Management & Organization and Process Management, and Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal.

Dr. Francine Schlosser holds the Odette Research Chair at the Odette School of Business. Her research contributes to understanding how educators, employees, migrants and employers can stimulate entrepreneurial readiness and innovative knowledge-based strategic involvement; and manage mid-and-late career transitions. From 2013 to 2018, she held the University of Windsor’s Golden Jubilee Professorship at the Odette School of Business for research excellence. She was the Executive Director of the University of Windsor’s Entrepreneurship Practice and Innovation Centre (EPI Centre) from 2016 to 2019, and worked collaboratively to develop multidisciplinary entrepreneurial talent.

Margit Suurnäkki earned her DBA in International Business from Aalto University Executive Education. Her research interests focus on paradox theory and historical research on organisations. She has over 20 years’ experience in leadership and human resource management roles in multinational firms. Her writing combines managerial practices with academic research. Her current research focuses on how multinational companies develop their global ways of working and how they balance the needs for both global integration and local responsiveness.

Charles M. Vance has been very active at Loyola Marymount University in designing and conducting customised training programmes for managers, executives and other professionals. He has had considerable experience as a Consultant in North and South America, Asia and Europe in training design, management development and coaching, and broader human resource and organisation development applications (e.g. leadership, effective communication skills, creativity and innovation management, knowledge management, organisation change and development, performance management, international human resource management, and organisational learning systems design). He is the Author of over 100 scholarly publications and creative works, as well as three books, including Smart Talent Management: Building Knowledge Assets for Competitive Advantage.

Peter A. Voyer is an Associate Professor of Marketing at the University of Windsor. Prior to entering academe, he was a Senior Artillery Officer in the Canadian Army where he held numerous high-level leadership appointments during his multi-decade career. He participated in domestic and international operations including the Canadian Joint Task Force in Afghanistan. Currently, in addition to teaching at the graduate and undergraduate levels, and writing business cases, he is an Active Researcher within the areas of service marketing, word of mouth processes, scale development and leadership. His work has been published in a variety of top-tier scholarly and practitioner journals including: the Journal of Service Research, Journal of Business Ethics, Advances in Consumer Research and the Ivey Business Journal. As a former Career Military Officer, and now University Professor, he has devoted his entire working life to the service of others.

Foreword

Talent Management is a series of books edited and authored by some of the best and most renowned researchers in the field of talent management. As its name suggests, this Emerald series focuses on talent management, one of the fastest growing areas of research in the areas of business and management. As a topic, it bridges a number of core management areas, including human resource management, organisational psychology, strategy and international business. The series features monographs and edited collections exploring both research and practical perspectives on contemporary talent management. The main aim of the series is to provide a forum for the publication of novel perspectives on talent and talent management from across disciplinary divides. It also provides the opportunity to explore new and innovative issues and topics in this area in greater depth.

This Emerald series, Talent Management, is intended to serve the growing market of global scholars and practitioners who seek a deeper and broader understanding of the role and importance of talent management in organisations. The series focuses on key areas of talent management practice as well as analyses at different levels from individual to societal. With this in mind, all books in the series provide a thorough review of existing research and multiple examples of companies around the world, wherever applicable. Given the nature of the subject at hand, the authors and editors of the books are global in their scope and the leading scholars in their respective areas. They bring exceptional knowledge of, and expertise in, the issues of talent management they address, and in some instances, the authors are the forerunners of their topics. We feel very fortunate to have such a distinguished group of academics involved in this series.

The sixth book in the series, entitled Global Talent Management During Times of Uncertainty, adopts a macrolevel lens to explore various challenges for global talent management (GTM) and International HRM (IHRM) activities that support GTM in times of crisis and uncertainty. Ably stewarded by editors Francine Schlosser and Deborah McPhee, the contributions to this volume take a thorough look at the current socio-political and socio-economic challenges that are pertinent to future research in the IHRM and GTM fields. The editors and authors explore some salient questions related to, among others, the individual, organisational and macrocontextual challenges to talent management in the present and future, the role of different stakeholders, such as corporate leaders, governments and universities in shaping talent management, and the type of talent management efforts required in the post-pandemic environment.

It goes without saying that the publisher and editor are vital partners in making this series possible. In particular, we would like to express our sincere gratitude for the work of our former series editors, Niall Kennedy and David Mulvaney, as well as the current editor, Nick Wallwork. They have been very encouraging of the Talent Management series and instrumental in providing the necessary support to us and the authors and editors in the series. Together we are all very excited about the Talent Management series and hope you find an opportunity to use and benefit from Global Talent Management During Times of Uncertainty, as well as all other published and upcoming books in the series!

Vlad Vaiman, School of Management, California Lutheran University, USA

David G. Collings, DCU Business School, Dublin City University, Ireland

April 2022