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Authors: | Julie A Felker |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Management Studies , College of Business, University of Michigan-Dearborn , Dearborn, MI, USA jdziekan@umich.edu |
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Abstract: | The main purpose of this exploratory research was to study the strategic importance of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) as an emerging source of professional talent for European and American multinational corporations (MNCs) operating in Western Europe. The findings, based on in-depth interviews with 34 human resource leaders and consultants from 16 firms in the European Union and Switzerland, suggest that the new member states currently hold little strategic importance in the context of recruiting knowledge workers to Western Europe, and that MNCs' global staffing strategies may be excluding a strong and untapped source of professional talent. The less obvious and perhaps most important findings about why most of these MNCs do not systematically recruit from CEE countries lead to perceptions about CEE cultures and the communist legacy that still linger today. |
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Keywords: | Central and Eastern Europe communism European Union international recruitment knowledge workers MNC global staffing |
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