Managing in the Twenty-first Century: The Need for Global Orientation

■ We are in the early stages of another "great leap forward" in the internationalization of the world's economic activity, and this has great implications for the management. ■ American managers and executives appear to be consistently ethnocentric in their approach to the practice of management including their approach to management succession and the development and implementation of policies, practices and procedures designed to support corporate management succession. ■ If American corporations fail to integrate an international perspective into their human resource management policies and practices, their ability to compete successfully in the global marketplace will continue to be encumbered.