Biography of Prof. Dr. Marion Festing

Professor of Human Resource Management and Intercultural Leadership
Academic Director of the Talent Management Institute (TMI) and of the Excellence Centre of Intercultural Management (CIM)
Rector of the Berlin Campus (2012-2017)
European Research Dean (2008-2011)
Academic Director of the European Executive MBA Program, Berlin Campus (2004-2012)

Degrees

PhD and habilitation degrees (advanced doctoral studies),
University of Paderborn / Germany

Areas of Expertise (research & - teaching)

  • International human resource management (main focus: strategies, compensation, careers)
  • Global Leadership
  • Strategic Human Resource Management
  • Intercultural Management
  • Globalization Processes

International Experience (studying, teaching and/or research)

Ecole Supérieure de Commerce, Toulouse/France -
Monash University/Melbourne/Australia -
Université de Sfax/Tunisia -
Michigan State University, East Lansing/U.S.A -
University of Wisconsin, Madison/ U.S.A -
Cornell University/U.S.A.

Academic Functions

Marion Festing is the Co-Editor of ZfP - German Journal of Research in Human Resource Management and serves on the editorial boards of International Journal of Human Resource Management, Career Development International,  - International Journal of Globalisation and Small Business and Zeitschrift für Management. She is active as a reviewer for various journals such as Management International Review, European Management Journal, Human Resource Management, International Journal of Human Resource Management and Thunderbird International Business Review.

Marion Festing was co-organizer of the sixth conference on International Human Resource Management in Paderborn in 1998, and co chair of the various IHRM tracks at the International Federation of Scholarly Associations of Management (IFSAM) conferences including in Limerick in 2012. Her current research interests focus on transnational HRM strategies, global performance management, global careers and global compensation.

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Academic Articles

2023

KRAUS, S., B. BLAKE, M. FESTING, M. A. SHAFFER

Global employees and exogenous shocks: considering positive psychological capital as a personal resource in international human resource management

JOURNAL OF WORLD BUSINESS, 58 (3), 101444

Books

2023

DOWLING, P. J., M. FESTING, A. D. ENGLE

International Human Resource Management

Cengage Learning, 452

Chapters

2023

BARZANTNY, C., M. FESTING

Performance Management in France and Germany

In: Performance Management Systems, Arup Varma, Pawan S. Budhwar & Angelo S. DeNisi Routledge, 190-221

Chapters

2023

FESTING, M.

Germany: Talent Development in Complex and Dynamic Environments: New Approaches in the Context of the German Business System

In: The Global Human Resource Management Casebook, Liza Castro Christiansen, M. Biron, P. Budhwar, & B. Harney Routledge, 21-30

Other Intellectual Contributions

2023

SCHURR, M., M. FESTING

Befähigen statt zukaufen

PERSONALWIRTSCHAFT, 4/2023, 16-19

Academic Articles

2022

BONNETON, D., S. SCHWORM, M. FESTING, M. MURATBEKOVA-TOURON

Do global talent management programs help to retain talent? A career-related framework

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT, 33 (2), 203-238

Academic Articles

2022

FESTING, M., K. SALMEN

Paving the way for progress in employee agility research: A systematic literature review and framework

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT, 33(22), 4386-4439

Chapters

2022

FESTING, M., L. SCHÄFER

Talent and Talent Management in Ambidextrous Organizations—Framework and Research Agenda addressing the Challenges of Complexity and Dynamism

In: Talent Management: A Decade of Developments, Vlad Vaiman, David Collings, Hugh Scullion Emerald

Academic Articles

2021

FESTING, M., M. TEKIELI

Global Alignment or Localization? An Empirical Examination of Global Reward Management in MNEs from a Subsidiary Perspective

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT, 32 (3), 680-718

Chapters

2021

FESTING, M., L. SCHÄFER

Talent Management and Generational Differences and Challenges

In: The Routledge Companion to Talent Management, Tarique I. Routledge, 241-252