The global pendulum

From: T + D | Date: May 1, 2002| Author: Bing, John W; Carter, Terry J; Bierema, Laura L | Copyright information

This article is the first of three in a series focusing on key trends. The next articles will appear in the June and July issues.

In which direction is your globalization pendulum swinging? The Future Search Conference has some answers.

Globalization continues to be a dominant and recurring theme among training and HRD professionals, but what does it mean to the training and development function when an organization changes its global focus? That's one of the key questions tha...

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