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From Job-Based to Competency-Based Organizations

Jul 1, 1993 | Organization Design, Sponsor Content, Talent Management

This article by Edward Lawler III challenges the basic assumption that jobs should be the fundamental building block of organizations. It stresses that with the new forms of organizations and the new demands organizations should be built around competencies not jobs.

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Designing Pay Systems for Teams

Jul 20, 1992 | Compensation and Benefits, Organization Design, Sponsor Content

Three different approaches to teams are identified–parallel teams, project teams and work teams in this article by Ed Lawler III and Susan Cohen.

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Starting Out Right: Negotiating Cross-Cultural Business Alliances

Jul 3, 1992 | Diversity and Inclusion, Organization Design, Sponsor Content

Katherin K. Reardon and Robert E. Spekman argue that there is no room for isolationism in a world where even the air we breathe is affected by the choices of people thousand of miles away.

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The Emerging Prominence of the Lateral Organization

Apr 25, 1992 | Organization Design, Sponsor Content

S. Mohrman explains that all signs are pointing to the importance of lateral integration in the organization of the future.

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Designing Informal Networks

Apr 11, 1992 | Organization Design, Sponsor Content

Jay R. Galbraith explains that the continuous search for competitive advantage is leading many companies to examine their organization. Traditional barriers to entry and sources of advantage like scale and patents are easily circumvented today through actions like strategic alliances.

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The Value Adding Corporation

Apr 3, 1992 | Organization Design, Organizational Effectiveness, Sponsor Content

Jay R. Galbraith states that the concept of the American Corporation has been evolving for some time. By the early 1980s a consensus had developed around the different types of corporations and their organizations.

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The Business Unit of the Future

Apr 1, 1992 | Future of HR, Organization Design, Sponsor Content

Jay R. Galbraith states that the business unit is a basic building block of the corporation’s structure. Collections of businesses make up the corporation’s portfolio.

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Self-Design for High Involvement: A Large-Scale Organizational Change

Dec 14, 1991 | Change Management, Organization Design, Sponsor Content

A five-year action research case study by G. Ledford, Jr. and S. Mohrman examines changes in a 12-plant division of a multi-billion dollar firm.

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Human Resources Strategies for Lateral Integration in a High-Technology Setting

Nov 1, 1991 | Digital Transformation, Organization Design, Sponsor Content, Strategic HR

S. Mohrman, A. Mohrman, Jr., and S. Cohen discuss how the literature on high technology management points overwhelmingly to the importance of lateral integration processes for successful performance.

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New Forms of Organization III

Aug 1, 1991 | Organization Design, Organizational Effectiveness, Sponsor Content

The Center for Effective Organizations and Fiat have conducted a series of travelling seminars. This part of the series by Jay Galbraith focused on organization forms for competitive renewal.

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New Organization Forms for Manufacturing Competitiveness

Jul 1, 1991 | Organization Design, Organizational Effectiveness, Sponsor Content

Jay Galbraith of the Center for Effective Organizations and FIAT conducted their second “traveling seminar” in order to study new forms of organization being used by manufacturing companies.

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Small World, Isn’t It? Personal Networks and Infrastructural Development

Dec 17, 1990 | Employee Engagement, Organization Design, Performance Management, Sponsor Content

Howard E. Aldrich and Mary Ann Von Glinow review some key concepts that help managers and planners understand the characteristics of networks and how people’s access to information is affected by their position in them.

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