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ENGAGING GLOBAL TALENTS INENGAGING GLOBAL TALENTS INENGAGING GLOBAL TALENTS IN ENGAGING GLOBAL TALENTS IN COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICECOMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE

: A CASE STUDY OF KOREAN HUMAN : A CASE STUDY OF KOREAN HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT PROFESSIONALS IN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT PROFESSIONALS IN

THE U.S. THE U.S.

JeongJeong--Hwan ChoiHwan Choi

PROBLEM STATEMENT PROBLEM STATEMENT

The contribution of global YESYES NONO

gtalents is negligible. Then, we don’t need to concern them too much.

Global talent group’sGlobal talent group’s engagement in virtual collaboration is limited for disparity of culture. p y

Gl b l t l t ’Global talent group’s engagement in virtual community of practice has no effect on their performance.

RESEARCH QUESTIONS & RESEARCH QUESTIONS & SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDYSIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY

Global Talents Group’s Contribution to Academy of HRD, and their Engagement in Virtual Community of Practice?

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1. How much does the Academy of HRD rely on global talents (specifically, Korean in the U.S.)?

2. How we can understand the engagement of global talent’s in Virtual Community of Practice (VCoP) in the U.S.?ch

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3. What are the outcomes of global talent’s engagement in VCoP?

The global interconnectedness have made the use and nature of teams increasingly more global, virtual, and common. (Briscoe, 2009, p. 208)

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Maintaining the stature of the professional knowledge base within the context of practice is an ongoing challenge. (Korte, 2007, p. 10)

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Empirical understanding of contribution of global talents (Korean-American professionals) to Academy of HRD, Conceptual understanding of their engagement in virtual.

LITERATURE REVIEWLITERATURE REVIEW (I) (I) –– Contribution of Contribution of Global Talents in the U.S. Global Talents in the U.S.

Ethnic-Name Matching Technique is used to identify the contribution of minority group’s contribution of innovation in the U.S.

Summary

• Documenting Patterns in Patents Direct Measure

• Classification of Chinese/Indian family names Sur-name / First

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Study of Ethnic Minority Group’s

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• Melissa Ethnic-Name Database• Manual matching• Ethnic compositions of US

inventorsName Matching

Technique

Source: Kerr (2008), The Agglomeration of US Ethnic Inventors

inventors

RESULTS (I)RESULTS (I)

Korean Authors Contributed 10% of Publication at 2008 International Conference of AHRD at Florida, and 94% of Publications Were Written by Korean HRD Professionals in the U SProfessionals in the U.S.

Chinese Author32

(8%)

Other318

Korean Author 37

(10%)

31882%

35: Korean-American 2: Korean in Korea

Source: Author Index, Proceeding of AHRD Conference (2008), The data is analyzed based on the Ethnic-Name Matching Technique by Kerr (2008)