Research Scientists
Edward E. Lawler III
Director, Center for Effective Organizations and Distinguished Professor of Business
Online Column
Lawler blogs regularly in his column for Forbes.com. His columns are also reprinted in the Huffington Post.
Research
Lawler has been honored as a major contributor to theory, research, and practice in the fields of human resources management, compensation, organizational development, and organizational effectiveness.
Research Partners/Clients
He has worked with many of the Fortune 500 firms as well as a number of government and non-profit organizations.
Professional Work
Ed is the recipient of the highest research awards given by the University of Southern California, The Human Resource Planning Society, the Society for Human Resource Management, the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, the Academy of Management, the American Society for Training and Development, and World at Work.
Education
BA - Brown University
PhD - University of California, Berkeley
Contact
Connect with Ed on LinkedIn
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Audio and Video Interviews
- Video interview at the Globe and Mail with Ed discussing HR's seat at the table
- Listen to the audio interview from Ed's January 17, 2012 Q & A session on Executive Networks' NetConnect.
- Ed Lawler YouTube Playlist
- The Insana Quotient, talking about Management Reset
- i4cp interview on how to align for organizational change
- Audio interview with Ed Lawler and Chris Worley on Management Reset
Research Areas
- Motivation, Evaluation, Reward Systems
- Human Resource Management
- The Methodology of Useful Research
- Doing Useful Research - a Conference
- Organization Design
- Organization Development and Change Management
- Corporate Governance, Boards, and Senior Executives
- The New American Workplace
Projects
- Performance Management
- Organization Agility
- Creating the Dynamic Network Organization
- Conference on Doing Useful Research
- Achieving Excellence in the HR Function
Books
- Effective Human Resource Management: A Global Analysis
- Management Reset: Organizing for Sustainable Effectiveness
- Achieving Excellence in Human Resources Management: An Assessment of Human Resource Functions
- Boardroom Realities: Building Leaders Across Your Board
- Talent: Making People Your Competitive Advantage
- America at Work: Choices and Challenges
- Built to Change: How to Achieve Sustained Organizational Effectiveness
- Achieving Strategic Excellence: An Assessment of Human Resource Organizations
- Human Resources Business Process Outsourcing
- Treat People Right!: How Organizations and Individuals Can Propel Each Other Into a Virtuous Spiral of Success
- Creating a Strategic Human Resources Organization: An Assessment of Trends and New Directions
- Corporate Boards: New Strategies for Adding Value at the Top
- Organizing for High Performance: Employee Involvement, TQM, Reengineering, and Knowledge Management in the Fortune 1000
- Rewarding Excellence: Pay Strategies for the New Economy
- Creating a Strategic Human Resources Organization
- The Leader's Change Handbook
- Doing Research That is Useful for Theory and Practice
- Tomorrow's Organization: Crafting Winning Capabilities in a Dynamic World
- Strategies for High Performance Organizations: The CEO Report
- New Directions for the Human Resources Organization
- From the Ground Up: Six Principles for Building the New Logic Corporation
- Creating High Performance Organizations: Practices and Results of Employee Involvement and TQM in Fortune 1000 Companies
- Motivation in Work Organizations
- Organizing for the Future
- The Ultimate Advantage
- Strategic Pay
- Large-Scale Organizational Change
- Designing Performance Appraisal Systems
- High Involvement Management
Webinars
- Webinar: Corporate Boards and Sustainability, 4/25, Audio/Slides
- Webinar: HR and Sustainability, 11/27, Audio/Slides
- Webinar: Performance Management, June 26, Audio/Slides
- Webinar - Effective Human Resource Management: A Global Analysis, 5/22 Audio/Slides
- Webinar: Current Issues and Emerging Practices in Performance Management,11/30 Audio/Slides
- Webinar: Jim O'Toole, 8/9, Audio/Slides
- Webinar: A Conversation with Ed Lawler, 4/27 - Audio/Slides
- Webinar: Achieving Excellence in HR Management
Working Papers
- Adoption of Employee Involvement Practices: Organizational Change Issues and Insights
- Stubborn Traditionalism in HRM: Causes and Consequences
- Sustainability: What Should Boards Do?
- Effectiveness of Management Approaches
- The Strategic Role of HR in the U.S. and China
- Performance Management and Reward Systems
- What Makes Performance Appraisals Effective?
- How HR Spends Its Time: It is Time for a Change
- It is Time to Get It Right
- It's Individuals, Not Generations, That Matter
- Effective Talent Management
- Evaluating Employees? Add Environmental & Societal Impact to Your Performance Checklist
- Missed Opportunity to Reform Executive Compensation
- Lack of Women on Corporate Boards: The Problem or a Symptom?
- Sustainable Leadership: The Iconic Leader Problem
- Creating a New Employment Deal: Total Rewards and the New Workforce
- Nine Principles for Sustainable Talent Management
- Creating Sustainable-Effective Businesses
- A Suggestion for Creating Effective Sustainable Organizations: Get Rid of Job Descriptions
- Sustainability Initiatives are not the Answer: A New Approach to Management is Needed
- HR: Time for a Reset
- Performance Management: Creating an Effective Appraisal System
- Impact of Recession: What Has Happened to HR?
- Raising Skill Demand: Generating Good Jobs
- CHROs and Boards: A Missing Link
- Built to Change Organizations: Industry Influences and Performance Implications
- Built to Change Organizations and Responsible Progress - Twin Pillars of Sustainable Success
- Agility and Organization Design: A Diagnostic Framework
- Are Executives Paid Too Much?
- Fixing Executive Compensation: Right Time, Wrong Approach
- Reducing Labor Costs: Choosing the Right Approach
- Pay at the Top: When HR Makes a Difference
- What Makes HR a Strategic Partner?
- Human Capital Management: What are Boards Doing?
- Make Human Capital a Source of Competitive Advantage
- Sharing Leadership on Corporate Boards: A Critical Requirement for Teamwork at the Top
- Building a Change Capability at Capital One Financial
- Building a Change Capability at Capital One Financial: Separating Rhetoric and Reality
- Creating American Businesses that Can Compete Globally
- Make Human Capital a Source of Competitive Advantage
- CEO Compensation: What Board Members Think
- Reward Systems, Motivation and Organizational Change
- The Importance of Worker Value Added: Detroit's Real Lesson for American Industry
- Why HR Practices are not Evidence-Based
- What if - Organizations Were Built for Talent?
- Designing Organizations that are Built to Change
- Designing Organizations as if Change Matters
- HR Support for Corporate Boards
- Who's in the Boardroom and Does It Matter: The Impact of Having Non-Director Executives Attend Board Meetings
- HR Should Set the Table
- It Should Be All About Organizational Effectiveness
- Strategic Human Resources Management
- Corporate Governance and Job Creation: Changes in U.S. Boardrooms After Sarbanes Oxley
- How Corporate Boards are Changing
- Are Independent Directors the Answer?
- From Human Resource Management to Organizational Effectiveness
- HR Metrics and Analytics - Uses and Impacts
- No More Excuses for HR: It's Time to Add Value and Cut Costs
- What It Means To Treat People Right
- Leading a Virtuous Spiral Organization
- Reward Practices and Performance Management
- Pay Practices in Fortune 1000 Corporations
- Human Resources Management: New Consulting Opportunities
- HR As a Strategic Partner: What Does it Take to Make it Happen?
- Performance Management: What Works?
- When Two (or More) Heads are Better than One: The Promise and Pitfalls of Shared Leadership
- Getting Rid of the Bottom 10%, Sounds Good But...
- Pay Strategies for the New Economy: Lessons from the Dot-com Era
- Corporate Boards: Keys to Effectiveness
- What Makes Corporate Boards Effective
- Designing Change Capable Organizations
- Beyond the Vision: What Makes HR Effective?
- The Era of Human Capital Has Finally Arrived
- New Directions for the Human Resources Organization: An Organization Design Approach
- Individualizing the Organization: Past, Present and Future
- Pay Strategy - New Thinking for the New Millennium
- Pay System Change: Lag, Lead, or Both?
- Rethinking Organization Size
- Who Needs MBA's in H.R.? USC's Strategic H.R. Management MBA Concentration
- Creating Effective Pay Systems for Teams
- CEO Performance Appraisal
- Board Effectiveness: Principles and Practices
- New Approaches to Organizing: Competencies, Capabilities and the Decline of the Bureaucratic Model
- Transforming the Human Resources Function
- Competencies: The Right Foundation for the New Pay?
- Motivation for School Reform
- Reward Innovations in Fortune 1000 Companies
- The New Pay: A Strategic Approach
- Impact of Employee Involvement and Total Quality Management Programs
- Strategic Human Resources Management: An Idea Whose Time Has Come
- Reward Systems That Reinforce Organizational Change
- Total Quality Management Practices and Outcomes in the Largest U.S. Firms
- Avoiding the Corporate Dinosaur Syndrome
- Effects of Union Status on Employee Involvement: Diffusion and Effectiveness
- Performance Appraisal, or is it Performance Management?
- Organizational Effectiveness: New Realities and Challenges
- The Employee Empowerment Approach to Service
- The Contextual Determinants Of Increased Adoption Of Participative Practices In Organizations
- The New Plant Revolution Revisited
- From Job-Based to Competency-Based Organizations
- A New Logic for Organization: Implications for Higher Education
- Effective Reward Systems: Strategy, Diagnosis, Design and Change
- Who Uses Skill-Based Pay, and Why They Use It
- Total Quality management and Employee Involvement: Similarities, Differences and Future Directions
- A Skill-Based Approach to Human Resource Management
- Pay Systems Must Support Quality
- Total Quality Management: Practices in the Fortune 1000
- Designing Pay Systems for Teams
- Strategic Human Resource Management
- Strategic Reward Systems
- Total Quality-Oriented Human Resource Management
- Applying Employee Involvement in Schools
- Facing the Customer: Empowerment or Production Line?
- Paying the Person: A Better Approach to Management
- Managing Employee Involvement
- The Performance Management of Teams
- The New Plant: A Second Generation Approach
- Employee Involvement and Pay System Design
- Alternative Pay Systems, Firm Performance and Productivity
- Organizational Impact of Executive Compensation
- Pay for Organizational Performance
- International Competitiveness and the Design of Organizations
- The High Involvement Manager: Going it Alone
- Performance Appraisal Driven Pay
- What Laws Govern the Size of a Meaningful Pay Increase?
- Manager-Subordinate Agreement in the Performance Appraisal Meeting
- Parallel Participation Structures
- Substitutes for Hierarchy
- Pay for Performance: Dollars and Sense
- Changing Organizations: Strategic Choices
- The Quality Circle and its Variations
- Participative Management in the United States: Three Classics Revisited
- Pay for Performance: A Strategic Analysis
- Human Resource Management: Meeting the New Challenges
- Choosing an Involvement Strategy
- Compiled Opinion Editorials
- Transformations from Control to Involvement
- Quality Circles: After the Honeymoon
- Unions and the New Management
- Job Evaluation: A Critique
- Quality of Work Life and Employee Involvement
- Gainsharing
- Gainsharing Theory and Research: Findings and Future Directions
- Skill Based Pay
- Pay for Performance: A Motivational Analysis
- Parallel Participation Structures: The Case of Quality Circles
- The New Pay
- The Impact of Information Systems Technology on Organizations: A Review of Theory and Research
- Education, Management Style & Organizational Effectiveness
- Gainsharing: Some Questions and Fewer Answers
- Quality Circles -- A Self-Destruct Approach?
- Creating Useful Research With Organizations: Relationships and Process Issues
- Quality of Work Life
- Accounting for the Quality of Work Life
- The Design of Effective Reward Systems
- Performance Appraisal Revisited
- What Ever Happened to Incentive Pay?
- Human Resource Productivity in the 80's: A Critical Analysis of Trends
- The Strategic Design of Reward Systems
- Quality of Work Life: Perspectives and Directions
- The Impact of Discussing Salary Action in the Performance Appraisal Meeting
- Motivation and Performance Appraisal Behavior
- The Diffusion of QWL as a Paradigm Shift
- Productivity and the Quality of Work Life
- Systems are not Solutions: Issues in Creating Information Systems that Account for the Human Organization
- Employee Influence on Decisions: An Analysis
- The Corporate Entrepreneur
- Creating High Involvement Work Organizations
- Merit Pay: An Obsolete Policy?
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