Articles, interviews, self-assessments, survey results, book excerpts, the latest business trends and management perspectives from around the globe. PLUS links to AMA’s seminars and events throughout the world and our wide range of ongoing learning resources.
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Study Shows That, Globally Speaking, Firms Have a Lot to Learn Now that "the world is flat," as Thomas Friedman has famously argued in his book by that name, Western corporations have to beef up their global learning initiatives if they are to succeed.
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Expatriate Assignments Are on the Rise The desire to be globally competitive continues to drive growth in multinationals’ expatriate assignments.
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What Americans Need to Know Before Working in China Although the recent summer Olympics focused worldwide attention on China, many false assumptions and stereotypes about the Asian giant still persist.
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Latest Worldwide Cost of Living Survey: The U.S. May be a Bargain The only North American city on this year’s Mercer Worldwide Cost of Living Survey is New York, in 22nd place. The Big Apple dropped seven places in one year, partially due to the weakening of the U.S. dollar.
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China’s Talent Crunch As companies increasingly compete on the basis of talent, China’s success will hinge on making the best of these issues: managing growth, pay, and turnover and continuing improvements to its education system.
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China’s Quality Squeeze Largely due to sustained consumer demand for inexpensive goods, China's product recalls do not appear to be a critical factor in growth strategies. But U.S. companies are expected to ramp up quality-control measures.
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U.S. Technology Leadership Is Slipping When asked whether they want to be a leader in adopting technology, only 6% of U.S. executives said they want to lead, compared to 15% in Europe and 19% in China. What’s going on?
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New Survey Looks at the “Greening” of Europe vs. the U.S. In the U.S.,18% of survey respondents felt that businesses are doing all they can to go green, compared to 10% of Germans, 14% of those in the UK, and 13% in France and Italy.
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Latest Data on Global Pay Practices According to Mercer’s Global Compensation Strategy survey, many multinational organizations are not following the best practice for designing a global compensation strategy. U.S. companies in particular may be pushing global programs further down in the organization without questioning the need or value to do so.
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Getting to “Yes” with Chinese Companies While Americans are a proud, forthright bunch, they sometimes need to be reminded that the “American way” isn’t necessarily the only way.
