International Talent Management – Tentative Implications from Cultural Background and Cultural Intelligence

26 Pages Posted: 10 Aug 2011

Date Written: May 6, 2010

Abstract

Talent management consists for potential talents, trains them and keeps them at a company, however in a globalized world the cultural factor is disregarded. Talents will be appraised on grades and experience, but not on their cultural background. By integrating the cultural background and the cultural intelligence into talent management, it should be possible to find even more fitting talents and keep them in the company with fewer incentives. Based upon the cultural background and cultural intelligence we developed a model with the constructs of cultural values, cultural intelligence, mindfulness, teamwork quality, and team performance and tested it on a sample of 179 game developers. This model gives us insights into the different cultural influences on performance depending on the job field, therefore it reveals the importance on the talent management to include the cultural background as well as the cultural intelligence. We will shortly review talent management in literature and after-wards look into the cultural diversity and its beneficial influence on team performance.

Keywords: international talent management, cultural background, cultural intelligence, team performance

Suggested Citation

Scholz, Tobias M., International Talent Management – Tentative Implications from Cultural Background and Cultural Intelligence (May 6, 2010). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1907602 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1907602

Tobias M. Scholz (Contact Author)

University of Siegen ( email )

Hoelderlinstrasse 3
57068 Siegen, NRW 57068
Germany

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