Research and Insights Archive

Research and Insights from the Center for Effective Organizations

Available Content

Books
Editorials
News
Webinars
Working Papers

Emotions, Values, and Methodology: Contributing to the Nature of the World We Live In Whether We Intend To or Not

Sep 14, 2010 | Organization Design, Organizational Effectiveness, Sponsor Content

Susan Albers Mohrman (CEO) explains that traditional management research has advocated arms‐length, systematic studies that treat organizations and the people in them as subjects.

Please Sign In

This content is available only to members and requires a valid login. If you are already a member, please log in first, after which you will return to this post.

Register For Complimentary Premium Access

Register for complimentary premium access to our working papers, editorials and webinars. It takes under 30 seconds. Register.

CHROs and Boards: A Missing Link

May 5, 2010 | Organizational Effectiveness, Sponsor Content

Edward E. Lawler III (CEO) states that it’s not a pretty picture – in fact, it is not much of a picture at all! The relationship between corporate boards and CHROs is often so distant as to be of little practical significance from a board and organizational effectiveness perspective.

Please Sign In

This content is available only to members and requires a valid login. If you are already a member, please log in first, after which you will return to this post.

Register For Complimentary Premium Access

Register for complimentary premium access to our working papers, editorials and webinars. It takes under 30 seconds. Register.

Valour Pulse and Energy Pulse

Sep 1, 2009 | Organizational Effectiveness, Sponsor Content

Theresa M. Welbourne’s (CEO) Valour Pulse and Energy Pulse questions are based on over 20 years of research on what drives firm performance.

Please Sign In

This content is available only to members and requires a valid login. If you are already a member, please log in first, after which you will return to this post.

Register For Complimentary Premium Access

Register for complimentary premium access to our working papers, editorials and webinars. It takes under 30 seconds. Register.

Designing Matrix Organizations That Actually Work, 6/17/2009

Jun 17, 2009 | Organization Design, Organizational Effectiveness

Jay addresses the design of successful matrix organizations. He features the Star Model as a guide to design. He emphasizes the point that designing a successful matrix is less about structure and more about designing management processes, creating joint goals, managing conflict, clarifying roles and responsibilities and creating strong management teams; ends with HR practices, reward systems and selection criteria to complete the Star Model.

Please Sign In

This content is available only to members and requires a valid login. If you are already a member, please log in first, after which you will return to this post.

Register For Complimentary Premium Access

Register for complimentary premium access to our working papers, editorials and webinars. It takes under 30 seconds. Register.

Corporate Board Attributes, Team Effectiveness and Financial Performance

Jul 1, 2008 | Organizational Effectiveness, Performance Management, Sponsor Content

G. Tyge Payne (Texas Tech University), George S. Benson (University of Texas), and David L. Finegold (Rutgers University) discuss how researchers have recently begun to integrate the literature on corporate boards with that of team effectiveness in an effort to understand how boards function and impact company performance.

Please Sign In

This content is available only to members and requires a valid login. If you are already a member, please log in first, after which you will return to this post.

Register For Complimentary Premium Access

Register for complimentary premium access to our working papers, editorials and webinars. It takes under 30 seconds. Register.

Are All Nonfinancial Performance Measures Created Equal? Evidence on Customer Satisfaction and Employee Satisfaction Measures from the Homebuilding Industry

Sep 11, 2007 | Organizational Effectiveness, Performance Management, Sponsor Content

Clara Xiaoling Chen (University of Illinois), Melissa Martin (USC), and Kenneth A. Merchant’s (USC) findings suggest that the validity of a business model depends not only on the soundness of the conceptual model per se, but also on how the variables in the business model are measured.

Please Sign In

This content is available only to members and requires a valid login. If you are already a member, please log in first, after which you will return to this post.

Register For Complimentary Premium Access

Register for complimentary premium access to our working papers, editorials and webinars. It takes under 30 seconds. Register.

Silence Speaks Volumes: The Effectiveness of Reticence in Comparison to Apology and Denial for Responding to Integrity- and Competence-Based Trust Violations

Aug 7, 2006 | Organizational Effectiveness, Sponsor Content, Strategy Execution

Donald L. Ferrin (Singapore Management University), Peter H. Kim (USC), Cecily D. Cooper (University of Miami), and Kurt T. Dirks (Washington University in St. Louis) Prior research on responses to trust violations has focused primarily on the effects of apology and denial. We extend this research by studying another type of verbal response that is often used to respond to trust violations, but has not been considered in the trust literature: reticence.

Please Sign In

This content is available only to members and requires a valid login. If you are already a member, please log in first, after which you will return to this post.

Register For Complimentary Premium Access

Register for complimentary premium access to our working papers, editorials and webinars. It takes under 30 seconds. Register.

It Should Be All About Organizational Effectiveness

Jul 12, 2005 | Future of HR, Organizational Effectiveness, Sponsor Content

Edward E. Lawler III (CEO) states that it is the best of times and the worst of times for the HR functions in corporations. The foundation upon which HR functions were built has shifted dramatically in the last few decades.

Please Sign In

This content is available only to members and requires a valid login. If you are already a member, please log in first, after which you will return to this post.

Register For Complimentary Premium Access

Register for complimentary premium access to our working papers, editorials and webinars. It takes under 30 seconds. Register.

Do Competencies Drive Organizational Performance? Can they? Evidence and Implications for Professional and HR Competencies

Mar 7, 2005 | Organizational Effectiveness, Performance Management, Sponsor Content

This article by Alec R. Levenson (CEO) examines the link between competencies and organizational performance.

Please Sign In

This content is available only to members and requires a valid login. If you are already a member, please log in first, after which you will return to this post.

Register For Complimentary Premium Access

Register for complimentary premium access to our working papers, editorials and webinars. It takes under 30 seconds. Register.

From Human Resource Management to Organizational Effectiveness

Jun 9, 2004 | Organizational Effectiveness, Sponsor Content, Strategic HR

Edward E. Lawler III (CEO) explains that for at least the last decade virtually every book, article, and speech on the future of the human resources function in corporations has emphasized the need for change.

Please Sign In

This content is available only to members and requires a valid login. If you are already a member, please log in first, after which you will return to this post.

Register For Complimentary Premium Access

Register for complimentary premium access to our working papers, editorials and webinars. It takes under 30 seconds. Register.

Life at CMM Level 5: Lessons from Computer Sciences Corporation on the Effective Implementation of the Capability Maturity Model for Software

Nov 23, 2003 | Innovation, Organizational Effectiveness, Sponsor Content

Paul S. Adler, Frank E. McGarry, Wendy B. Irion-Talbot, and Derek J. Binney share that a growing number of organizations are using the Software Engineering Institute’s (SEI) Capability Maturity Model for Software (CMM) as a guide to improving their development process.

Please Sign In

This content is available only to members and requires a valid login. If you are already a member, please log in first, after which you will return to this post.

Register For Complimentary Premium Access

Register for complimentary premium access to our working papers, editorials and webinars. It takes under 30 seconds. Register.

Integrated Speed and Flexibility: Delivering Customer Solutions

May 18, 2003 | Agility, Organization Design, Organizational Effectiveness, Sponsor Content

Jay R. Galbraith states that a challenge for organization designers is to create an organization that can act with speed, flexibility and integration. Up until now, designers could create organizations that are characterized by any two of those features but not all three.

Please Sign In

This content is available only to members and requires a valid login. If you are already a member, please log in first, after which you will return to this post.

Register For Complimentary Premium Access

Register for complimentary premium access to our working papers, editorials and webinars. It takes under 30 seconds. Register.

« Older Entries

Next Entries »