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What HR Executives Need to Know

Jan 2, 2015 | Sponsor Content, Strategic HR

Edward E. Lawler III (CEO) explains that talking about HR as a business partner certainly does not help the situation. Asking to be a business partner just does not get the “job done”. This is what HR should be, and in most cases, it should make a very strong argument to be positioned as a major strategic contributor.

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Commentaries on “The Changing Landscape of Employee Rewards: Observations and Prescriptions”

Jan 1, 2015 | Compensation and Benefits, Sponsor Content

This paper first summarizes key themes from a recent paper by Gerald Ledford that was published in Organizational Dynamics. That paper reviewed changes in employee reward systems during the past 35 years, looked at factors explaining the changes, and recommended a set of five changes in the future. Five distinguished corporate HR leaders then comment on the paper, exploring a number of important topics in contemporary employee rewards.

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Strategic Role of HR

Dec 12, 2014 | Sponsor Content, Strategic HR

What is the relationship between the design and management of the HR function and HR’s role in organizational strategy? This is the key design question and one that can be answered by examining the research evidence from John W. Boudreau’s (CEO) and Edward E. Lawler’s III (CEO) international survey of hundreds of HR leaders that has been done every three years since 1995.

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Top-down, bottom-up, outside-in, and from the middle out: Where traditional change processes fall short, 12/12/14, recording/slides

Dec 12, 2014 | Change Management, Organizational Effectiveness, Sustainability

Eric Severson, Senior Vice President, Global Talent Solutions at Gap, Inc., talked about the integration of the many vectors of change that have been simultaneously unfolding as Gap Inc. has worked to achieve sustainable effectiveness as defined by business/financial and market success, meeting the needs of today’s global workforce, and pursuing world-leading corporate responsibility.

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The Future of Employee Compensation: Compensation Café Entries

Dec 11, 2014 | Compensation and Benefits, Future of HR, Sponsor Content

Gerald E. Ledford, Jr. (CEO) This collection is a three-part series that appeared in Compensation Café, the leading blog on reward systems, from December 1-3, 2014. See www.CompensationCafe.com for the original entries and reader responses to them.

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The Business Impact of ERGs: Learnings from the 2014 ERG Leadership Summit, December 9, 2014, Recording/Slides

Dec 9, 2014 | Employee Resource Groups, Leadership

In this webinar, Dr. Welbourne reviewed learning from the 2014 ERG Leadership Survey. With responses from ERG members in 21 companies, we created a new ERG Impact Model and explored ways in which ERGs both directly and indirectly impact business outcomes.

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The New Frontier of Analytics: Going Beyond Data and ROI, December 2, 2014

Dec 2, 2014 | HR Analytics

In this webinar, Alec Levenson will present a comprehensive approach to conducting enterprise and human capital analytics in an integrated way to maximize both organizational capability and bottom line impact.

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Sustainable Effectiveness Governance Model: Moving Corporations Beyond the Philanthropy Paradigm

Nov 13, 2014 | Organizational Effectiveness, Sponsor Content, Sustainability

This article by Edward E. Lawler III (CEO) and Jay A. Conger (CEO) argues that the ‘sustainable effectiveness’ model of how organizations should operate is a stark contrast to the philanthropic.

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The Crucial-and Underappreciated-Role of HR in Sustainability

Oct 10, 2014 | Organization Design, Sponsor Content, Sustainability

Edward E. Lawler III (CEO) and Susan A. Mohrman (CEO) explain that companies that perform well with respect to sustainability can be distinguished from those that don’t by an array of organizational design features.

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The Sustainable Effectiveness Governance Model: Moving Corporations Beyond the Philanthropy Paradigm

Oct 9, 2014 | Organizational Effectiveness, Sponsor Content, Sustainability

Edward E. Lawler III (CEO) and Jay A. Conger (CEO) discuss how historically, organizations have adapted themselves to the paradigm of sustainable effectiveness either by adding a philanthropic function or a department focused on sustainability initiatives. However, both approaches fall seriously short in terms of effectiveness.

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Misconceptions Of Agility, 10/6/14, recording/slides

Oct 6, 2014 | Agility

In this webinar, Chris Worley, Tom Williams, and Ed Lawler will present and discuss several of the leading “misconceptions of agility”.

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It Takes a Village: Creating HR Strategic Impact by Reaching Out Beyond the HR Function, 9/23/14, recording/slides

Sep 23, 2014 | Strategic HR, Strategy Execution

John Boudreau (Professor and Research Director)
Do your chief strategy, marketing, operations and technology officers help create your organizations HR strategy? They should.

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