Chair of Human Resource Management & Intercultural Leadership
Chair ofHuman Resource Management & Intercultural Leadership
"Human Resource Management is crucial for gaining competitive advantage. It has an important impact on the interaction of people within the company. In an international and multicultural context, HRM becomes a fascinating field of research."
- Prof. Dr. Marion Festing
The team
Women in Finance Chair
Based on the fact that women are under-represented in the finance industry, this Chair aims to identify the reasons behind this state of affairs, as well as the best practices and pitfalls.
The objective of this Chair, led by Almudena Cañibano (Paris) and Marion Festing (Berlin) is to attract, retain and promote women in finance.
Know MoreExcellence Centre for Intercultural Management, Diversity and Inclusion (CIMDI)
Embracing culture and diversity | The Excellence Centre for Intercultural Management, Diversity and Inclusion supports students and professionals in developing their intercultural competences.
It offers innovative learning formats that enable individuals to become culturally competent global leaders. In addition, it conducts high-profile academic and practice-oriented research projects in the field of intercultural management, and aims at collaborating with a large network of academics and organisations.
Know MoreTalent Management Institute (TMI)
The mission of the Talent Management Institute is to support companies in the war for talent by providing state-of-the-art talent management research and creating a distinct community of TM experts for knowledge sharing.
Teaching
We offer the following courses:
Master in
Management
- Core Course: Human Resource Management for Managers
- Elective: International Human Resource Management
- Elective: Human Resource Management and New Ways of Working
- Specialisation: New Ways of Working in the Digital Age
Master in
Sustainability Entrepreneurship and Innovation
- Core Course: Intercultural Management
- Core Course: Leadership, Teams and Collaboration
Specialised
Masters
- Course: Intercultural Management
- Elective: Intercultural Human Resource Management
EMBA
Executive MBA
- Core Course: Managing People and Organisations
- Elective: Human Resource Management for Executives
- Elective (blended): Intercultural Management in Team and Leadership Settings (including Serious Game: Moving Tomorrow)
Executive
Education
- Course: Women in Leadership
- Various courses in Customised Executive Education on Human Resource Management, New Ways of Working, Managing People and Organizations, Intercultural Leadership, Intercultural Management, Female Leadership, Diversity and Inclusion, Unconscious Bias, MBTI
Research
Research approach
The main research focus of the Chair of Human Resource Management and Intercultural Leadership is on International Human Resource Management and Cross-cultural Management. Marion Festing has co-authored textbooks in German and in English language.
Currently, several research projects are investigated by the team of the Chair of Human Resource Management and Intercultural Leadership. Research questions are usually placed in a broader theoretical context. They address topics in (International) Human Resource Management, Talent Management, Intercultural Management, Diversity and Inclusion.
Often the analyses include individual, organizational as well as broader context perspectives. All projects include qualitative or quantitative empirical investigations.
Current research topics
International HRM: Global Reward Management
The project investigates the relationship between the centralization of reward management decision-making and its perceived effectiveness in multinational enterprises. Our results show that headquarters managers perceive a centralized approach as being more effective, while for subsidiary managers this relationship is moderated by the manager’s role identity. Referring to social identity theory, the present study enriches the standardization vs. localization debate through a new perspective focusing on psychological processes, thereby indicating the importance of in-group favoritism in headquarters and the influence of subsidiary managers’ role identities on reward management decision-making.
International HRM: Global Talent Management
The link between talent management practices and retention is under-researched. We fill this research gap by proposing a conceptual framework linking global talent management practices and talent retention in multinational corporations, by exploring the role of individual careers through knowing-whom career capital and career success. Our contribution is threefold: A conceptual framework, empirical evidence and a new literature-based TM index, which makes the perceived intensity of TM programs measurable. We further suggest the concept of the endo-organization as an organization form of a talent elite.
Talent Management and Agility
Increasing global competition, the growing importance of digitalization or faster changes in customer needs and markets are the main challenges most companies have to face nowadays. Thus, the environment is unpredictable, dynamic and highly competitive which increases cost and innovation pressure for companies. To cope with those challenges the concept of organizational agility gains more and more importance, which manifests in several areas of business practices and academic research. In this project we investigate the implications for talent management.
Talent Management and Digitalization
Digitalization provides important chances for talent management including transparency and more information as a basis to take important decisions. While it will not replace the talent manager it leads to changes in talent management practices in order to attract and retain talent.
Talent Management, Inclusion and Diversity
In order to overcome the current stalemate of the seemingly opposing TM approaches (exclusive/inclusive) we conceptualize a new TM approach that combines both lines of argumentation. It takes into account that firms may want to take an exclusive approach to TM but acknowledges the importance of inclusion in this pool at the same time. This new approachis named the IE approach to TM. Another contribution of this study is the suggestion of an inclusion index for TM, which enriches the academic discussion, equips companies with a new measure to assess and monitor the extent of inclusion in their TM approach and practices and may help to avoid the negative effects of exclusive TM practices associated with homogeneous talent pools.
Culture and Cross-Cultural Education
Throughout the last six decades, a large proportion of cross-cultural research in organizational psychology and management has assumed culture to reside neatly within the boundaries of countries. While this perspective on culture still enjoys considerable popularity in present day research, it has been increasingly scrutinized by recent contributions presenting empirical evidence of within-country cultural heterogeneity. Capturing this cultural heterogeneity and analyse the implications for cross-cultural education is the objective of this research project.
Job Embeddedness
The research objective is to investigate the role of job embeddedness as a predictor of employee retention across cultures, and how leadership behaviours and attitudes can drive job embeddedness. This project is conducted within the CCMN, a network of numerous research teams worldwide. View here the Country Collaborators.
(Sustainable) HRM & Non-financial Reporting
The DFG-funded international research project entitled “The effects of non-financial reporting legislation on human resource management practices and corporate governance in Germany and Poland – Analyzing the impacts of Directive 2014/95/EU” investigates the impact of Directive 2014/95/EU, as translated into national law, on HRM practices and corporate governance in Germany and Poland. Hereby, we not only examine the effects of the related laws with respect to corporate non-financial disclosure, but also in regards to the real changes of organizational practices and corporate governance configurations such as increased implementation of socially responsible HRM practices. View here for further project information, publications and all international project team members.
Publications
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Academic Articles
2024
Understanding technology-driven work arrangements from a complexity perspective: a systematic literature review and an agenda for future research
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT, 35(5), 964-1006
Conference Presentations
2024
International Experience and the Subjective Career Success of Global Employees: A Career Construction Perspective
Academy of International Business (AIB)
Academic Articles
2023
Global employees and exogenous shocks: considering positive psychological capital as a personal resource in international human resource management
JOURNAL OF WORLD BUSINESS, 58 (3), 101444
Academic Articles
2023
Toward a Mid-Range Design Theory for Developing Pedagogically Effective Serious Games
INFORMATION SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT
Academic Articles
2023
Developing Cultural Intelligence in a Serious Game-Centered Blended Course: Insights from Experiential Learning Theory and Empirical Evidence
JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS EDUCATION, 18 (2023)
Books
2023
International Human Resource Management
Cengage Learning, 452
Chapters
2023
Performance Management in France and Germany
In: Performance Management Systems, Arup Varma, Pawan S. Budhwar & Angelo S. DeNisi Routledge, 190-221
Chapters
2023
Germany: Talent Development in Complex and Dynamic Environments: New Approaches in the Context of the German Business System
In: The Global Human Resource Management Casebook, Liza Castro Christiansen, M. Biron, P. Budhwar, & B. Harney Routledge, 21-30
Other Intellectual Contributions
2023
Befähigen statt zukaufen
PERSONALWIRTSCHAFT, 4/2023, 16-19
Academic Articles
2022
Do global talent management programs help to retain talent? A career-related framework
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT, 33 (2), 203-238
