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Self-Designing a Performance Management System

Jan 4, 2003 | Organization Design, Performance Management, Sponsor Content

A. Mohrman, Jr. and S. Mohrman discuss how the systems and practices that organizations use to manage performance are integrally related to the capacity of the organization to accomplish its business objectives and of its employees to accomplish their purposes.

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Human Resources Management: New Consulting Opportunities

Jan 3, 2003 | Change Management, Future of HR, Sponsor Content

E. Lawler and S. Mohrman explain that the future of HR consulting is inseparable from the future of the HR function in organizations. There is little doubt in our minds that the ways in which the HR function is managed, positioned and operates in corporations today will change dramatically over the next decade and that these changes will affect HR consulting.

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HR As a Strategic Partner: What Does it Take to Make it Happen?

Jan 2, 2003 | Organizational Effectiveness, Sponsor Content, Strategic HR, Strategy Execution

E. Lawler and S. Mohrman share that a number of articles, books and studies have argued that HR needs to become a strategic partner. But is HR becoming a strategic partner?

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Designing the Knowledge Enterprise: Beyond Programs and Tools

Jul 1, 2002 | Innovation, Organization Design, Sponsor Content

S. Mohrman, D. Finegold, and J. Klein find that how effectively firms generate, leverage, and apply knowledge is a function of four work behaviors: focusing on system performance rather than on narrow technical outcomes; following systematic processes; sharing knowledge, and trying new approaches.

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Harvesting What They Grow: Can Firms Get a Return on Investments in General Skills?

May 16, 2002 | Organizational Effectiveness, Sponsor Content, Talent Management

D. Finegold, G. Benson, and S. Mohrman explain that economic theory predicts that firms will not invest in developing employees’ general skills because unlike investments in physical capital, this human capital can walk out the door at any time. Companies, however, are spending billions of dollars each year on general education and training programs.

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Designing Work for Knowledge-Based Competition

Mar 7, 2002 | Innovation, Organization Design, Sponsor Content

Susan Mohrman proposes a framework for the design of work in the knowledge enterprise-firms that compete based on their knowledge leadership and knowledge management capabilities.

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The Organizational Level of Analysis: Consulting to the Implementation of New Organizational Designs

Jan 1, 2002 | Innovation, Organization Design, Sponsor Content

Sue Mohrman discusses how during a two-year period, a European electronics firm, Global Solutions, acquired four foreign subsidiaries to bolster its strategy of becoming a global leader selling systems to large global customers.

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Accelerating Organizational Transition

Dec 22, 2001 | Agility, Change Management, Organization Design

Why do some organizations make required changes and achieve new levels of performance successfully, while other units in the same organization seemingly stumble and never achieve new levels of performance? This two-part video produced by Susan A. Mohrman & Serge Lashutka, 2001 reveals how viewing organizational change as a learning process that can be accelerated is the difference.

Organizing for High Performance: Employee Involvement, TQM, Reengineering, and Knowledge Management in the Fortune 1000

Jul 30, 2001 | Digital Transformation, Employee Engagement, Organization Design

Edward E. Lawler III , Susan Albers Mohrman , and George Benson discuss how worldwide competition, the rapid expansion of the Internet, and the uncertainty of today’s economic climate are among the myriad forces testing the traditional approaches to management.

Beyond the Vision: What Makes HR Effective?

Oct 16, 2000 | Future of HR, Organizational Effectiveness, Sponsor Content, Strategic HR

Edward Lawler III and Susan A. Mohrman argue that corporations are undergoing dramatic changes that have significant implications for how their human resources are managed and for how the human resource function is best organized and managed.

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Exploring the Dynamics of Innovation in Organizational Knowledge Networks

Jun 10, 2000 | Innovation, Organization Design, Sponsor Content

R. Tenkasi and S. Mohrman examine the patterns of action that characterize successful and unsuccessful discretionary, cross-functional, innovation networks in a large health care system.

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Doing Research That is Useful to Practice: A Model and Empirical Exploration

May 9, 2000 | HR Analytics, Sponsor Content, Uncategorized

Drawing from literature on knowledge transfer and cognition, S. Mohrman, C. Gibson, and A. Mohrman, Jr. develop a theoretical model for conducting research that is useful to practitioners. We explore the potential of this model by examining the usefulness of a research project involving ten companies.

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