Professor of Organizational Behavior at INSEAD in Fontainebleau and Shell Chaired Professor of Human Resources and Organizational Development
Director of INSEAD's executive seminars on Management of People, which he created in 1977, and Managerial Skills for International Business. He has directed for many years INSEAD's activities in the field of international human resource management, initiating many partnerships with leading MNCs and scholars to build INSEAD's competences in this domain, and he has been coordinator of INSEAD's Organizational Behavior department for successive periods. He was recently faculty chairman of INSEAD’s executive education area, one of the largest and leading executive education organizations in the world.
Poul Evans research is on strategic HRM, and the dualities/paradoxes facing international firms. He is the author of Human Resource Management in International Firms: Change, Globalization, Innovation (Macmillan, 1989), A book which provides a comprehensive review of The Global Challenge: Frameworks for International Human Resource Management has just been published in January 2002 by McGraw-Hill. One of his recent articles about Thriving on Paradox received an award as one of “the Ten Best Management Ideas in 2001” from a US review of management publications. Aside from his many articles, cases, a bestselling educational video called Managing People, and the lead on-line course in management for Financial Times/Knowledge, he serves on the editorial boards of leading journals on both sides of the Atlantic. He has been described in the press as one of the world’s most influential people in the field of international human resource management, and he received the award in 2001 from the INSEAD MBA students as “outstanding teacher of the year” for his elective course on international HRM. |
