The article presents a personal historical review of the person-organization fit (PO) literature by Amy Kristof-Brown, Benjamin Schneider and Rong Su. We present six conundrums and research evidence about each that we’ve encountered while studying fit during our...
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The Job as Work Role and Profession: It’s More Than Skills
This paper argues that strategic workforce planning (SWP) tailored to the demands of the modern workplace fosters a culture of professionalism essential for evolving work roles. As the contemporary work environment becomes more dynamic, interdependent, and complex,...
Benjamin Schneider Lauded for Excellence in Organizational Psychology
Benjamin Schneider has been included in Marquis Who’s Who. As in all Marquis Who’s Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.
A Research Agenda for Employee Engagement in a Changing World of Work
This insightful Research Agenda presents the foundations of employee engagement, providing a framework for future research to serve as an evidence-based guide to practice. Offering an overview of contemporary engagement theory and research, it addresses important new directions for expanding our current understanding of the meaning, focus, development and outcomes of engagement.
Intelligent Automation (IA) to Accelerate Human Potential (Human Element Unplugged Webinar)
Intelligent Automation (IA) to Accelerate Human Potential (Human Element Unplugged Webinar)
with John Boudreau and Ben Schneider
People Management in Work Organizations: Fifty Years of Learnings
Ben Schneider shares fifty years of lessons learned in people management.
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Why Your Work Automation “Climate” Matters As Much As Upskilling
This article originally appeared on Visier.com New research on workplace climate offers important insights for measuring, facilitating and enhancing successful work automation. John Boudreau and Benjamin Schneider share why workforce automation readiness requires more than just enhanced worker capabilities. When it comes to preparing for future work automation, the dominant focus is on upskilling worker capability, […]
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Beyond “Upskilling”: Measuring the Climate for Work Automation with the “Work Automation Index”
With all the attention to enhancing the skills of workers to cope with work automation, CEO affiliate Dr. Benjamin Schneider, and Dr. John Boudreau realized that organizations are overlooking pivotal elements to work automation success.
The Business Case for Employee Engagement That All CEOs Must Read
Benjamin Schneider, Ph.D. discusses workforce engagement: What it is, what drives it, and why it matters for organizational performance.
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Performance Feedback Culture Drives Business Impact
A new publication by Gerald E. Ledford, Jr. Ph.D. and Benjamin Schneider, Ph.D. highlights the study of 234 organizations and shows that the key to performance management effectiveness is creating a performance feedback culture (PFC).
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Benjamin Schneider (CEO) selected the winner of the 2017 Walker Prize
We are delighted to announce that Ben Schneider of the Center for Effective Organizations has been selected as the winner of the 2017 Walker Prize (honoring the best paper) for his article “How Companies Can Really Impact Service Quality” in the SHRM publication called People + Strategy.
“Will this be on the Test?” What are we doing to our Students and Employees?
Alan Colquitt, Ph.D. explains that research shows people overestimate how much other people care about extrinsic features of a job, such as pay, and underestimate how much people are motivated by intrinsic job features (e.g., challenge, purpose).
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