Prof. Dr. Michael Dickmann lectures in the areas of international and strategic human resource management as well as in change management, global careers and cross-cultural management. He is the Director of the Cranfield Master of Science in International Human Resource Management. He teaches MBA and MSc students as well as executives in the UK, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, Denmark, Spain, Norway, Croatia, Bahrain, Cyprus and France.

Professor Dickmann’s research covers broad areas of international HRM. He has published widely in professional and academic journals, including The International Journal of Human Resource Management, Personnel Review, Journal of World Business, Journal of Management Development. British Journal of Management and Thunderbird International Business Review. He has unified his diverse international HRM research interests in two books: ‘International Human Resource Management’ (2008) and ‘Global Careers’ (2011), both published by Routledge in the US, Europe and Australia.

Professor Dickmann has several years of work experiences for major consultancies and in industry. He has conducted a variety of consulting and research assignments on people management with cutting edge multinational organisations. He has worked in his native Germany, Australia, the USA, Colombia, Spain and Britain and speaks English and Spanish fluently. Before rejoining Cranfield, he has worked as the Head of Human Resources in a multinational corporation. His experience in line management and consulting is highly useful for the applicability of his work.

A research alliance with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) yielded substantial results including a) the development of a new strategic mobility consultancy offer for PwC, b) the acquisition of more than two dozen new clients for PwC’s International Service arm and c) subsequently international mobility changes in a range of major multinationals. Professor Dickmann has also worked for the largest United Nations agency – World Food Programme – to investigate the perceived strengths and weaknesses of their career and international reassignment systems. Having conducted the investigation he was asked to help the HR team around the HR director to explore the findings and to develop new career and reassignment structures and processes. In 2010 the new HR approaches in 78 countries was rolled out.

Over the past five years he had a leading role in the acquisition of research funds for a number of projects. He gained major funding from PwC for projects in international mobility, and won financial support for a major cross-cultural career research project in more than 20 countries. Further, he teamed up with People in Aid to win funds to investigate future leadership challenges in the third sector and how to prepare humanitarian leaders for these.

Ph.D. (Birkbeck College, University of London)
M.Sc. (London School of Economics, University of London)
B.Sc. (Queen Mary College, University of London)