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The Crucial-and Underappreciated-Role of HR in Sustainability

Oct 10, 2014 | Organization Design, Sponsor Content, Sustainability

Edward E. Lawler III (CEO) and Susan A. Mohrman (CEO) explain that companies that perform well with respect to sustainability can be distinguished from those that don’t by an array of organizational design features.

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The Agility Factor: Building Adaptable Organizations for Superior Performance

Aug 15, 2014 | Agility, Organization Design

In The Agility Factor: Building Adaptable Organizations for Superior Performance, the authors (Christopher G. Worley, Thomas D. Williams, and Edward E. Lawler III) reveal the factors that drive long-term profitability based on the practices of successful companies that have consistently outperformed their peers.

Reconfiguring the Eco-System for Sustainable Healthcare (Organizing for Sustainable Effectiveness)

Jul 14, 2014 | Organization Design, Organizational Effectiveness, Sustainability

Reconfiguring the Eco-System for Sustainable Healthcare (Organizing for Sustainable Effectiveness) by Susan Albers Mohrman (Author, Editor), Abraham B. Shani (Editor) presents case studies and theoretical analyses that illustrate practical approaches to, and further the theoretical understanding of, the creation of a more sustainable healthcare.

Designing Organizations for Sustainable Effectiveness: A New Paradigm for Organizations and Academic Researchers

Jan 2, 2014 | Organization Design, Organizational Effectiveness, Sponsor Content, Sustainability

The article by Susan A. Mohrman (CEO) and Edward E. Lawler III (CEO) examines design features that enable an organization to address today’s complex and increasingly pressing global issues in ways that are sustainably effective. It identifies key social and environmental issues and reviews research examining how organizations can respond to them.

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Emerging Approaches to Organisation Design

Dec 4, 2013 | Organization Design

This case-based research report (Mohrman, S. and Pilllans, G. (Corporate Research Forum, 2013) focuses on trends in organization design and organization design solutions that are becoming increasingly common to help manage complexity and promote learning and innovation. The report chronicles some of the major organization design challenges faced by global corporations today.

Building Networks and Partnerships for Sustainability

Jul 25, 2013 | Organization Design, Sustainability

Christopher G. Worley, Philip H. Mirvis, Susan Albers Mohrman, and Abraham B. (Rami) Shani, Editors (Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2013) The volume explores how collaboration, partnership, and networks are being developed to support the achievement of economic, social, and environmental sustainability.

Janice Schonwetter (AlignOrganizations): Organizational Design Refresher Webinar, 2/26/2013

Feb 26, 2013 | Organization Design

Janice presents a case dealing with the redesign of HR in a large, global engineering design and services company. A very systematic example of working through the issues of leveraging services across businesses and across regions and how to organize for that.

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It’s a Great Time to be a Physician: Building a Healthcare System that Works

Feb 13, 2013 | Organization Design, Sustainability

Weisz, J., Mohrman, S. A., and McCracken, A. (Second River Healthcare Press, 2012) A first-hand account of the changes being demanded of the U.S. healthcare system, this book is written by Dr. Jeffrey Weisz for his fellow physicians.

So you Want to be Agile? Find a Balance Between “Fat” and “Muscle”, 1/10/2013

Jan 10, 2013 | Agility, Organization Design

In this webinar, Chris Worley and Sue Mohrman will describe their learnings about designing organizations for agility. There are many paradoxes inherent in such designs. Agility requires accepting a certain amount of slack that absorbs the risk of investing in their future while relentlessly driving down costs in present operations; experimenting on the one hand while systematically incorporating what is learned on the other; and developing people to be ready for the future while making them expert in the present. In agile organizations, change is routine.

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Organizing for Sustainable Health Care

Jul 30, 2012 | Organization Design, Sustainability

Susan Albers Mohrman & A.B. (Rami) Shani explain that Health care, as it is currently organized, is not sustainable. Health care systems in the developed world are encountering increased demand for high quality health care but facing societal resource limits.

Large-Group Interventions: An Empirical Field Study of Their Composition, Process, and Outcomes

Mar 6, 2012 | Organization Design, Sponsor Content

Large group interventions are an important method of organization change. This paper by Christopher G. Worley (CEO), Susan A. Mohrman (CEO), and Jennifer Nevitt (Microsoft) received the McGregor Award for the outstanding contribution to the Journal of Applied Behavioral Science for 2011.

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Executing Multidimensional Organizations

Jul 22, 2011 | Organization Design

Jay Galbraith discussed three-dimensional matrices of functions, business units and countries as well as four-dimensional structures, such as Procter & Gamble’s Four Pillar Organization is an example.

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