G. McMahan and E. Lawler III examined the research literature on union status and employee involvement with respect to two issues: (1) the relationship between the presence of a union and the adoption of employee involvement; (2) the relationship between the presence of a union and the effectiveness of employee involvement.
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A Hierarchical Construct of Self-Management Leadership and Its Relationship to Quality of Work Life and Perceived Work Group Effectiveness
This study by L. Chang, S. Cohen, and G. Ledford, Jr. validated the Self-Management Leadership Questionnaire (Manz & Sims, 1987) and assessed the relationship between self-management leadership, work group effectiveness and quality of work life (QWL).
A Hierarchical Construct of Self-Management Leadership to Quality of Work Life and Perceived Work Group Effectiveness
This study by L. Chang, S. Cohen, and G. Ledford, Jr. validates the Self-Management Leadership theory as operationalized by the Self- Management Leadership Questionnaire (Manz & Sims, 1987) in a large telephone company.
Organization Development within the Firm: A Survey of the 500 Largest Industrials
Gary C. McMahan and Richard W. Woodman conducted a study in which the 500 largest industrial firms in the United States were surveyed with regard to their internal Organization Development (OD) practice.
Organizational Effectiveness: New Realities and Challenges
Edward Lawler III provides an overview of the critical global factors that demand higher performance standards from organizations.
Locating Meaning in Organizational Learning: The Narrative Basis of Cognition
Ramkrishnan V. Tenkasi and Richard J. Boland Jr. call for a fundamental reorientation of our understanding of human cognition and its relation to organizational learning, a turn that sees the basic organizing principle of cognition as essentially narrative and not schematic or representational.
The Practice of Organization Development: A Survey of the 500 Largest Service Firms
In this study by Gary C. McMahan, Richard W. Woodman, and Ana Moreno, the 500 largest service firms in the United States were surveyed with regard to their internal Organization Development (OD) practice.
Designing Effective Self-Managing Work Teams
This paper by Susan G. Cohen proposes a model of self-managing work team (SMWT) effectiveness derived from several theories of organizational behavior and empirical work.
Pay Systems Must Support Quality
The relationship between pay systems and total quality management systems is discussed in this paper by Edward Lawler III.
Total Quality Management: Practices in the Fortune 1000
E. Lawler III, S Mohrman, and G. Ledford, Jr. report on the results of the Center for Effective Organizations survey of the Fortune 1000 companies. Particular focus is on the kind of total quality management practices which are adopted by these companies.
The Value Adding Corporation
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.
New Forms of Organization III
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.