Table of Contents

Part 1: The Changing Global Business Landscape and How HR Requirements have Responded
Chapter 1: Overview and Logic
Chapter 2: The Global Perspective
Part 2: The World’s Nine Major Regions: Their Business Challenges, HR Competencies, and Competitive Practices
Chapter 3: Africa
Chapter 4: Australia and New Zealand
Chapter 5: China
Chapter 6: Europe
Chapter 7: India
Chapter 8: Latin America
Chapter 9: The Middle East
Chapter 10: North America
Chapter 11: Turkey
Part 3: Summary and Integration of Regional Differences
Chapter 12: Common and Customized Competencies: Similarities and Differences Around the World
Chapter 13: Future of Global HR: What’s Next?
Endnotes
Index
About the Authors
About the Contributors

About the Author

Dave Ulrich is a Professor of Business at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan and a partner at The RBL Group (www.rbl.net), a consulting firm that helps organizations and leaders deliver value. Ulrich studies how organizations build capabilities of speed, learning, collaboration, accountability, talent and leadership through leveraging human resources. He has helped generate award-winning databases that assess alignment between strategies, human resource practices and HR competencies. Ulrich has published more than 200 articles and book chapters and co-authored over 20 books covering topics in leadership and human resources, including HR Transformation (2009); The Leadership Code (2008); HR Competencies (2008); Leadership Brand (2007); and HR Value Proposition (2006). He has also served on the editorial board of four journals, the Board of Directors for Herman Miller, and the Board of Trustees at Southern Virginia University, and is a Fellow in the National Academy of Human Resources. Ulrich has been ranked the most influential person in HR by HR Magazine and the #1 Management Educator & Guru by BusinessWeek, and also listed in Forbes as one of the "world's top five" business coaches. 



Wayne Brockbank is a Clinical Professor of Business of the Strategic Human Resource Planning Program at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business.



Jon Younger career has been a mix of consulting, executive management and HR leadership.