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Global Talent Management and the American Female Executive

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This chapter explores Global Talent Management (GTM) in some of America’s largest organizations. GTM is the process of managing top organizational talent across national boundaries, and in this case, in corporations based in the United States. These global organizations are also known as Transnational Corporations (TNCs); they are highly decentralized organizations that push authority down to the individual level in the organization (Schein, Organizational culture and leadership, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2004).

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  1. The Human Resource, Capella University, Minneapolis, MN, USA

    Laura Sankovich

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  1. Université de Toulouse, Toulouse Business School, Toulouse, France

    Akram Al Ariss

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Sankovich, L. (2014). Global Talent Management and the American Female Executive. In: Al Ariss, A. (eds) Global Talent Management. Management for Professionals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05125-3_18

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