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The Kozai Group is a management and organizational consultancy whose mission
is to help global companies develop effective human resource strategies to
support their business objectives. The Kozai Group comprises Professors Allan
Bird, Mark Mendenhall, Gary Oddou, and Micheal Stevens. Through their cutting-edge
research into global competencies, the Kozai Group have identified 17 citical
global competencies necessary for success overseas. Offering a wide-range
of global competency assessment tools, custom-designed
training programs, and consulting initiatives, the Kozai Group. are able
to help global companies assess and develop the global competencies of their
managerial cadre. Please feel free to visit the Kozai Group`s website to learn
more about their products and services.
Dr. Allan Bird
Dr. Allan Bird holds the Eiichi Shibusawa-Seigo Arai Professor of Japanese
Studies in the College of Business Administration, University of Missouri-St.
Louis. His Ph.D. (1988) is in Organization Studies from the University of
Oregon. He received his M.A. (1983) in Comparative Culture and International
Management from Sophia University in Tokyo. Allan's diverse research activities
focus on Japanese top management teams, career and compensation issues; expatriate
management, global leadership, and HRM in Japanese overseas affiliates. His
work has appeared in the Academy of Management Journal, the Strategic Management
Journal, the Journal of Organizational Behavior, the Journal of International
Business Studies and numerous other academic and practitioner journals. He
is also the author of a book on Japanese boards of directors, Executive
no Kenkyu (in Japanese). Other books include Japanese Multinationals
Abroad: Individual and Organizational Learning and The Encyclopedia
of Japanese Business and Management (Routledge, 2002). Allan has served
as a consultant to numerous Japanese and American companies as well as to
the Japanese government and several trade organizations.
Dr. Mark Mendenhall
Dr. Mark E. Mendenhall is an internationally recognized leading scholar in
the field of international human resource management. His areas of expertise
are global leadership development and assessment, and the cross-cultural adjustment
of expatriates. He currently holds the Frierson Chair of Excellence in Business
Leadership at the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga. He held the Ludwig
Erhard Stiftungsprofessur Chair at the University of Bayreuth, and is a faculty
of member of the Europa Institut, the first MBA Program established in Germany.
He is past president of the International Management Division of the Academy
of Management. His most recent books are: Managing Human Resources in Mergers
and Acquisitions; International Assignments: An Integration of Strategy, Research,
and Practice; and Developing Global Business Leaders: Policies, Processes,
and Innovations. His book, Developing People Through International Assignments,
is widely read by HR executives involved with expatriate management programs.
Mark has also published numerous scholarly articles some of which have appeared
in Sloan Management Review, Academy of Management Review, Journal of International
Business Studies, Organizational Dynamics, Human Resource Management, Management
International Review, and International Journal of Intercultural Relations.
He has consulted with, and conducted numerous training programs for numerous
multinational firms, including: IBM-Asia Pacific, IBM-Japan, National Aeronautic
and Space Administration (NASA), Boeing, Monsanto, and J.C. Bamford Excavators
(JCB).
Dr. Gary Oddou
Dr. Gary Oddou has been teaching, researching and consulting in the area of
international human resource management for over 20 years. His research focus
has been in the area of expatriate adjustment and training, repatriate reintegration,
international knowledge transfer,
and expatriate-repatriate best practices. He has published over 30 articles
on these topics and written or co-edited three books related to international
human resource management.
He has regularly taught outside the United States, including such places as
the National Economics University, Hanoi; Ecole de Management, Lyon; the University
of Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, and has been a research associate at the International
Institute for Management Development (IMD). In addition, Dr. Oddou has regularly
consulted with numerous multinational firms in the areas of expatriate and
repatriate management both in the United States and in Europe.
Dr. Mike Stevens
Dr. Michael J. Stevens is a management professor at the University of Missouri-St.
Louis, where he is also a Fellow in the Center for International Studies,
and the Center for Non-Profit Leadership and Management. He also consults
widely with organizations in the business and not-for-profit sectors. His
primary areas of expertise include: improving organizational performance through
empowerment and teamwork; individual assessment and selection (especially
for teams and cross-cultural assignments); executive coaching and leadership
development; the impact of of leadership on organizational culture and employee
performance; and interpersonal effectiveness in the workplace.
He received his Ph.D. from the Krannert School of Management at Purdue University,
where he won the Ralph G. Alexander Best Dissertation Award from the National
Academy of Management.
He has published book chapters and research articles
in highly respected management journals, and regularly gives presentations
at professional conferences and seminars.
Dr. Stevens is a widely cited researcher who has conducted pioneering work
in the area of measuring a person's interpersonal aptitude for working successfully
in teams, and is the lead author of the commercially distributed "Teamwork-KSA"
employment test.
He is currently active in several professional societies and has held management
and board positions in industry, government, consulting, and not-for-profit
organizations.
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