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Paying for Skills in Two Food Processing Plants

Jul 3, 1990 | Compensation and Benefits, Sponsor Content

This case study by G. Ledford, Jr. and G. Bergel considers the use of skill-based pay in two General Mills plants. The plants were “Greenfield” high involvement/high performance organizations that produce the same product.

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The Evolution of Skill-Based Pay in an Ammunition Assembly Plant

Jul 3, 1990 | Compensation and Benefits, Sponsor Content

This case study by G. Ledford, Jr., W. Tyler, and W. Dixey describes the evolution of the skill-based pay plan over a period of seven years in a Honeywell high involvement facility.

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Performance Appraisal Research at The Center for Effective Organizations

Jul 1, 1990 | Performance Management, Sponsor Content

Allan M. Mohrman, Jr. reports that the Center for Effective Organizations has conducted research on performance appraisal and, more generally, performance management for ten years.

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Contextual Determinants of Human Resource Management Effectiveness in International Cooperative Alliances: Evidence from the People’s Republic of China

Jun 1, 1990 | Organizational Effectiveness, Sponsor Content, Strategic HR

Mary Ann Von Glinow and Mary B. Teagarden argue that international cooperative alliances, especially joint ventures in developing countries with command economies such as the People’s Republic of China, encounter myriad factors pertaining to HRM that constrain or influence their effectiveness.

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The New Plant: A Second Generation Approach

May 1, 1990 | Organization Design, Sponsor Content

This article by Ed Lawler III summarizes and integrates the latest thinking on how manufacturing plants should be designed.

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Developing Strategic International Human Resource Management: Prescriptions for MNC Success

Apr 1, 1990 | Sponsor Content, Strategic HR

Many U.S. multinational corporations (MNCs) have experienced difficulties in their overseas operations, due in part to ineffective international human resource management (IHRM) practices. This paper by Mary Ann Von Glinow and John Milliman uses a product life cycle (PLC) approach to develop a two-step contingency model of the strategic and operational levels of MNCs.

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In Transit: From Physician to Manager

Feb 1, 1990 | Sponsor Content, Talent Management

Morgan W. McCall, Jr. and Judith A. Clair report that physicians are finding themselves in increasing numbers in significant managerial roles. Successful transition from a role as individual professional to a managerial role is neither automatic nor easy.

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The Effectiveness of Skill-Based Pay Systems

Jan 3, 1990 | Compensation and Benefits, Sponsor Content

Gerry Ledford, Jr. explains that skill-based pay (SBP) systems reward employees for the range, depth, and types of skills they possess. Employees are paid for the skills they are capable of using, rather than for the job they are performing at any point in time.

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Performance Appraisal Research at the Center for Effective Organizations

Jan 1, 1990 | Performance Management, Sponsor Content

A. Mohrman, Jr. 1990 Performance Appraisal Research at the Center for Effective Organizations

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Group Empowerment: Group Purpose and QWL in a State Psychiatric Hospital for Adolescents

Dec 19, 1989 | Employee Engagement, Performance Management, Sponsor Content

This study by Susan G. Cohen examines the relationship between group purpose and group empowerment for three staff teams in a psychiatric hospital–a top management team, a summer planning task force, and a clinical group.

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Making the Ethical Choice: Consulting to a Consumer Advisory Panel

Dec 18, 1989 | Sponsor Content, Strategic HR

This case by Susan G. Cohen examines the role of a consultant to a corporation’s consumer advisory panel. It discusses the consultant’s response to an ethical dilemma and her choice of intervention strategies. It is written from the consultant’s vantage point, revealing her planning and decision-making processes.

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A Longitude Field Study of Organization Development Using Archival Measures of Employee Absenteeism and Turnover

Dec 17, 1989 | Performance Management, Sponsor Content

This research by Louis R. Pondy and Larry E. Pate attempted to determine the power of an organization development (OD) program to reduce absenteeism and turnover rates among hourly employees of a medium-sized Midwestern life insurance company in the USA.

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