Global leaders are team players: Developing global leaders through membership on global teams

Global teams today make an increasing number of decisions in multinational organizations, addressing challenges broad in score and critical to perform ance. An additional role of global tea-Ins is discussed here-providing idea l training for future global leaders. After reviewing the Knowledge and ski lls global leaders Meed, the article describes three group processes for gl obal team effectiveness: mapping, bridging, and Integrating. The effective global team as a rich context for developing global leadership knowledge an d skills is then explored. Specific ways in which human resource mangers ca n support global teams to maximize both team performance and global leaders hip? development are identified. (C) 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.