Chapter 18. GLOBAL APPLICATIONS OF ASSESSMENT

Ann Marie Ryan, Nancy T. Tippins

Much has been made of the increasing connectivity across nations, the globalization of business markets, and the dispersion of talent around the world. These trends stimulate the creation of multinational organizations and affect all aspects of business, but they also pose particular challenges and opportunities for human resource (HR) practices. These multinational organizations, as well as many domestic organizations that need to source employees globally, have turned the attention of assessment specialists toward practices that result in effective global assessments, the focus of this chapter.

By "global assessments," we mean any attempts by an organization to bring ...

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