Welcome to the companion website to Assessing Organization Agility: Creating Diagnostic Profiles to Guide Transformation by Christopher G. Worley, Thomas Williams, and Edward E. Lawler, III. Here you will find the resources mentioned in the book. For the online...
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Strategic Organization Design Workshop- Suggested Readings/Papers
(To download the PDF files, right-click on the link and save onto your computer) List of Papers and Articles Listed in alphabetical order by title. Agility and Organization Design: A Diagnostic Framework (Worley & Lawler, 2010) Building a Change Capability at...
People Analytics & Change Masterclass Downloads
Pre-Reading HR Magazine, June 2009: Count on Productivity Gains NEJM Catalyst Practical Leadership Model for Change, January-February 2020: Spreading at Scale: A Practical Leadership Model for Change Presentations (PDF) Click here for the Day One presentation. Click...
Preliminary results of the 2019 HR Global Study
The Center for Effective Organizations (CEO) has administered surveys of the human resource function in 1995, 1998, 2001, 2004, 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, and 2019. The results of the surveys yielded important data and publications on how Human Resource departments have operated and changed throughout the years. It is frequently cited and provides valuable information about HR effectiveness. Recently, CEO has completed its ninth study, and fourth global study.
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Employee Surveys and Sensing: Challenges and Opportunities (Society Industrial Organizational Psych)
Professional practice in the design and execution of employee survey programs has evolved tremendously over the past decade. Advances in technology and enthusiastic new interest in talent analytics have combined to create an exciting space with a good deal of innovation along methodological lines, matched by renewed interest in the strategic role of surveys and sensing for improving organizational effectiveness.
HR Leaders Must Accelerate Preparations for the Future Digital Organizations
New evidence from the Center for Effective Organizations’ Global HR Excellence survey suggests HR leaders must move faster to prepare for the fast-emerging digital organization.
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People Analytics and Change
Click here for the PowerPoint slides (in PDF format). People Analytics has made great strides in the world of HR, rapidly becoming a core capability that most CHROs feel they cannot do without. Yet even as organizations continue to build greater people analytics capability, the field struggles to find the best ways to engage with […]
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Analytics and OD: Twins Separated at Birth?
During the development of the modern HR function over the past half century, four disciplines emerged that define the essential expertise for strategic HR: business strategy, organization design, organizational development (OD) and analytics. As Dave Ulrich has often noted, the traditional HR function was very inward looking. In contrast, each of these disciplines requires an […]
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The Practitioner-Academic Gap: A View from the Middle
The practitioner-academic gap has been widely discussed for decades along with recommendations for increasing the practical application of management research. We review some of the reasons for this disconnect and argue this has been the norm going back to the beginnings of the field. At the same time contemporary management practice has obviously been greatly […]
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