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Back home from Birmingham

t0bs3n — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 11:33:43 +0000

Finally back home from Birmingham and now I have some time for the World Cup. But wanted to share my presentation from the IHRM conference.

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

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Goodbye Bogotá, hello Birmingham

t0bs3n — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 12:29:22 +0000

So I am now in Birmingham, sitting at the Aston Business School for a conference on International Human Resource Management. It was a really great time in Bogotá, the organizers took really good care of us and we had the chance to see some stuff. Additional to that met some great people and had the chance to participate at the EMMA vs. LAMMA football game (European and Latin America Media Management Associations).

What can we learn from Game Leaderhsip?

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International Human Ressource Management Conference

t0bs3n — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 07:16:06 +0000

Newspaper Distribution in Oslo

Great, a third paper got accepted at the International Human Ressource Management Conference in Aston. The topic was International Talent Management – Tentative Implications from Cultural Background and Cultural Intelligence and here is the abstract:

Talent management reveals potential talents, trains them and keeps them at a company, however in a globalized world the cultural factor is disregarded. Talents will be generalized on grades and experience, but not on their cultural background. However we will shortly review talent man- agement and afterwards look into the cultural diversity and its beneficial influence on team per- formance and thereby probably beneficial for talent management. If we integrate 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 less incentives, as they found a fit- ting job to their cultural environment, additional to their eagerness of performing well. The cul- tural background directly influences the recruiting process and the cultural intelligence directly the human resource development. This paper shows that cultural background and cultural intelli- gence seem to have implications of talent management, especially on recruiting and training.

Team Shepard saves the Universe

t0bs3n — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 10:22:47 +0000

Blizzard Picture from Diablo but still it is a Video-Game Picture

Probably some of you will have played Mass Effect 2 until now or at least heard about it, so I will try to avoid major spoilers. Vaguely speaking, this game is about a hero who assembles a team of aliens and humans in order to defeat an evil enemy. However, it is interesting that Bioware, the developer, stresses the interaction and the atmosphere between team members and the hero/leader. It is essential to raise the loyalty of every team member in order to succeed in the game, as these team members work or fight better if they trust the hero. Special at Mass Effect 2 is that Shepard (the hero character) searches for team members based on their skills and not based on their race. Therefore, he seeks for example a weapon specialist, an assassin, a warrior and several other extraordinary talents. However, contrary to the general tone in Human Resources, these talents are cutting edge in their field because of their race. Another example, the scientist in the team is a Salarian. “Salarians excel at invention, preferring to use cutting-edge technology rather than settle for anything less.” [1] As you can see, it is obvious that Shepard is choosing a Salarian as scientist having the best cultural requirements for the job. This demonstrates a key finding in my research field. Choose the best and use the cultural background. Sure, it is easy to do such things in a video game, where there is a big evil at the end, which destroys everything, however it is still necessary to forge a team, and this game shows a great way of forging. Beside the common goal, it is important to establish trust and loyalty observing the team leader. In Mass Effect 2 Shepard helps the team members to solve issues of their life, finding the lost father, defending by a trial. Sure not realistic in the world, but still it is interesting to watch. Shepard teams up with the best in the universe, who also are sometimes the scum of the universe, helps them to solve their past, gives them purpose to show their skills and, additionally, contribute to a project, in this case save the universe. Somehow excessive for the common job world, but still fascinating to see the parallels between multicultural high performance teams and Team Shepard.

[1] http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Salarian

Vortrag auf der RolePlay Convention

t0bs3n — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 16:06:22 +0000

Am 5.4.2009 werde ich einen Vortrag über das Thema “Gildenleiter ein potentieller Top-Manager” auf der RolePlay Convention in Köln halten.Gerade Massive Multiplayer Online-Rollenspiele basieren auf Teambildung. Diese Teambildung von High Performance Teams führt zur Ausführung und Erlernung von Fähigkeiten, die am Arbeitsplatz gefragt sind. In diesem Vortrag werden die verschiedenen Gildentätigkeiten vorgestellt und ihre Aufgabenbereiche mit Anforderungskriterien in der Wirtschaft verglichen.

Der Vortrag wird auf der Messe Laatzen stattfinden im Übergang Halle 2.2 und Halle 3.2 und wird zwischen 12 Uhr und 13 Uhr in dem Raum 2 stattfinden, hier noch der Link zu dem Programmheft der RolePlay Convention.