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The Discipline of Organization Design

Aug 6, 1996 | Change Management, Organization Design, Sponsor Content

S. Mohrman, A. Mohrman, Jr., and R. Tenkasi discuss how as organizations adapt to rapidly changing and increasingly demanding environments, they find themselves continually transforming themselves.

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Teams and Technology: Tensions in Participatory Design

Aug 5, 1996 | Digital Transformation, Organization Design, Sponsor Content

Don Mankin, Susan G. Cohen, and Tora K. Bikson address the trend that year after year, organizations increase their investment in new information and communication systems (IT) and use teams to do more and more of their work.

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Motivation for School Reform

Aug 14, 1995 | Organization Design, Organizational Effectiveness, Sponsor Content, Uncategorized

S. Mohrman and E. Lawler III state that the school reform movement seeks higher educational standards for all students, moving authority into the local school to develop new approaches and apply resources appropriately to meet the needs of all students, and new approaches to teaching and learning meet the educational needs of modern society.

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Designing Team-Based Organizations: New Forms for Knowledge Work

May 10, 1995 | Organization Design

Susan Albers Mohrman, Susan G. Cohen and Allan M. Mohrman, Jr., (Jossey-Bass, 1995)
Designing Team-Based Organizations breaks new ground in tackling the organizational design issues related to the implementation of teams, with a specific focus on the new designs required to support the knowledge-work components of organizations.

Organizing Knowledge Work Systems

Jul 27, 1994 | Organization Design, Sponsor Content

This paper by S. Mohrman, A. Mohrman, Jr., and S. Cohen examines the design of organizations for knowledge work. It draws on the general literature underpinning organization theory and design, and more applied work on design for knowledge work.

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The Effects of Inquiry Paradigms on Inquirers: A Study of the Impact of Different Inquiry Methods and Topics on Two Groups of Consulting Teams

Apr 22, 1994 | Employee Resource Groups, Organization Design, Sponsor Content, Strategic HR, Uncategorized

Ramkrishnan V. Tenkasi, Tojo J. Thachankary, Frank J. Barrett, and Michael R. Manning investigated the impact of two different guiding schemas about organizations and topics of inquiry, on two groups of consulting teams.

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New Directions for the Human Resources Organization

Apr 15, 1994 | Compensation and Benefits, Organization Design, Organizational Effectiveness, Performance Management, Talent Management

This landmark book, one of the most cited volumes on the topic of motivation in the workplace, defines Edward Lawler’s basic philosophy: in order to have effective organizations, we must understand how to motivate and encourage effective individual performance.

When People Get Out of the Box: New Attachments to Co-Workers

Mar 19, 1994 | Organization Design, Performance Management, Sponsor Content

S. Mohrman and S. Cohen state that new approaches to designing and managing organizations are changing the assumptions that have been built into traditional hierarchical organizations and the performance required by organizational participants.

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An International Comparison of Organization Development Practices: The United States and Hong Kong

Mar 14, 1994 | Organization Design, Organizational Effectiveness, Sponsor Content

This study by Chung-Ming Lau, Gary C. McMahan, and Richard W. Woodman explored culture-bound issues in OD. The results of surveys among major firms in the United States and Hong Kong indicated few major differences in their OD practices, though the usage of specific OD interventions varied.

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Supporting Knowledge Diversity in Knowledge Intensive Firms: A New Frontier for Information System Design

Feb 1, 1994 | Innovation, Organization Design, Sponsor Content

This paper by Richard J. Boland, Jr., Ramkrishnan V. Tenkasi, and Anil K Maheshwari argues the need for information systems that actively value the diversity of differentiated knowledge and that provide mechanisms for the integration of knowledge which respects the separateness of each expertise and way of knowing.

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Managing Complexity in High Technology Organizations

Jan 4, 1994 | Digital Transformation, Organization Design

A departure from traditional organizational prescriptions, this innovative book by Mary Ann Von Glinow and Susan Albers Mohrman offers a new framework for dealing with the numerous complexities and challenges of managing high technology industries and organizations.

Perspective Making and Perspective Taking in Communities of Knowing

Nov 29, 1993 | Digital Transformation, Innovation, Organization Design, Sponsor Content

In this paper, Richard J. Boland Jr. and Ramkrishnan V. Tenkasi look to science as an example of knowledge work in a community of knowing, and draw implications for the design of electronic communication systems and policies to support perspective making and perspective taking.

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