Research and Insights from the Center for Effective Organizations
The purpose of this paper by Caren Siehl is to address the question of “If culture can be managed, when and what aspects of culture can be managed”.
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The purpose of this paper by Caren Siehl and Joanne Martin is to describe a hybrid approach to the issue of measuring organizational culture.
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Edward E. Lawler III reviews the organizational consequences of traditional point factor approaches to job evaluation.
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This article by Charles Maxey and Thomas Cummings suggests that organization development (OD) interventions can inadvertently violate federal labor law.
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Edward E. Lawler III and Susan A. Mohrman consider the reasons for the decline of the union movement. It is concluded that unless unions change in important ways they will continue to decline.
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David E. Bowen describes strategies that managers in the service sector can use to respond effectively to customer presence within their organizations.
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Susan A. Mohrman, G. Ledford, Jr., Edward E. Lawler III, and A. Mohrman, Jr. state that involvement approaches to the organization of human resources has implications for most human resource systems, including the design of jobs, selection, training, appraisal, rewards and the conduct of labor relations.
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This article by Dave Bowen and Larry E. Greiner contends that the effectiveness of Human Resources (HR) staff groups responsible for personnel in organizations is limited because these groups often perform their role with a production orientation rather than a service orientation.
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This paper by Larry E. Greiner argues that major organization changes often fail because of political dynamics at the top of corporations.
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This article by Edward E. Lawler III presents a brief overview of gainsharing. It covers benefits, management style and the effects of situational conditions. The use of profit sharing and stock ownership is considered.
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A conceptual review of the literature on the persistence of planned organizational change is presented by Gerald Ledford, Jr, based on Lawrence Mohr’s distinction between variance theory models and process theory models of explanation.
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In this article by Edward E. Lawler III, key research needs are identified and the kinds of technical and theoretical developments which would aid the wider adoption and understanding of gainsharing are discussed.
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