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Oswald, Frederick L. – International Journal of Testing, 2008
The critical importance of understanding, selecting, and developing global management talent--management operating within internationally diverse interpersonal and situational contexts--has emerged from the increasing globalization of business and the concomitant high rates of immigration, emigration, and expatriation. With an awareness of this…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Personality, Personality Measures, Organizational Change
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Bartram, Dave – International Journal of Testing, 2008
The article discusses issues relating to the international use of personality inventories, especially those in which organizations make comparisons between people from differing cultures or countries or those with different languages. The focus is on the issue of norming and the use of national versus multinational norms. It is noted that…
Descriptors: Guidelines, Norms, Cultural Differences, Global Approach
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Hedricks, Cynthia A.; Robie, Chet; Harnisher, John V. – International Journal of Testing, 2008
Personality scores were used to construct three databases of global norms. The composition of the three databases varied according to percentage of cases by global region, occupational group, applicant status, and gender of the job candidate. Comparison of personality scores across the three norms databases revealed that the magnitude of the…
Descriptors: Norms, Databases, Case Studies, Cultural Differences
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Ramesh, Anuradha; Hazucha, Joy F.; Bank, Jurgen – International Journal of Testing, 2008
A major challenge that decisions makers face in multi-national organizations is how to compare managers from different parts of the globe. This challenge is both psychometric and practical. We draw on the cross-cultural psychology literature to propose a three-step framework to compare personality data from different countries. The first step…
Descriptors: Personality, Norms, Psychometrics, International Organizations