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Our Past, Present, and Future in Teams: The Role of Human Resource Professionals in Managing Team Performance Across Cultures

Oct 13, 1998 | Future of HR, Performance Management, Sponsor Content

Cristina B. Gibson and Bradley L. Kirkman discuss how the majority of Fortune 1000 employees have been affected by the widespread proliferation of work teams.

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Understanding Group-Efficacy: An Empirical Test of Multiple Assessment Methods

Oct 12, 1998 | Performance Management, Sponsor Content

In this paper by Cristina B. Gibson, Amy E. Randell, and P. Christopher Earley, methods of assessing group-efficacy were examined using a multi-party role play negotiation.

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Strategies for High Performance Organizations: The CEO Report

Aug 28, 1998 | Organizational Effectiveness, Performance Management, Strategic HR

The CEO Report by Edward E. Lawler III , Susan Albers Mohrman and Gerald E. Ledford, Jr., (Jossey-Bass, 1998) distills reams of surveys and research into an easy-to-interpret tool that managers can use to identify those improvement practices that best promote organizational effectiveness.

Beyond Competencies: Using the Ability to Learn from Experience for the Early Identification of International Executives

Mar 6, 1998 | Performance Management, Sponsor Content, Talent Management

Morgan W. McCall, Gretchen M. Spreitzer, and Joan D. Mahoney discuss the development of an instrument which measures both traditional competencies for international executive success and the ability to learn from experience.

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Running on Empty: Overworked People in Demanding Work Environments

Feb 4, 1998 | Performance Management, Sponsor Content

Julia Welch, Rachel Ebert, and Gretchen Spreitzer discuss how in contemporary organizations, overwork is often viewed as a key problem inherent in today’s demanding working environment.

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Winning ’em Over: A New Model for Managing in the Age of Persuasion

Jan 1, 1998 | Leadership, Performance Management

Winning ’em Over by Jay Conger chronicles a revolution. We are witnessing an ancient model of managing built around command and hierarchy give way to a new model built around persuasion and teamwork.

Competency Pay for Professionals and Managers in Business: A Review and Implications for Teachers

Nov 16, 1997 | Compensation and Benefits, Performance Management, Sponsor Content

This paper by G. Ledford and R. Heneman examines the relevance to teachers of business sector experiences with systems that identify and reward the skills, knowledge, and competencies of professionals and managers.

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CEO Performance Appraisal

Oct 15, 1997 | Performance Management, Sponsor Content

J. Conger, D. Finegold, and E. Lawler III explain that supervisors appraise their subordinates at virtually all levels in most organizations. But, who appraises the CEO?

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Managing Performance for Organizational Change and Learning

Jan 2, 1997 | Change Management, Performance Management, Sponsor Content

This paper by A. Mohrman, Jr. and S. Mohrman asserts the centrality of performance management in managing the business, defining the individuals’ relationship with the organization, and functioning as a feedback and control mechanism.

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Productivity, Machinery, and Skills in the United States and Western Europe: Food Processing

Dec 18, 1996 | Performance Management, Sponsor Content

Geoff Mason and David Finegold state that as the much-discussed US ‘productivity slowdown’ during the 1970’s recedes into the distance, several recent studies have shown that average labor productivity levels in US manufacturing and in the economy as a whole remain the highest in the world.

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Strategic Orientations, Incentive Plan Adoptions and Firm Performance: Evidence from Electric Utility Firms

Dec 13, 1996 | Compensation and Benefits, Performance Management, Sponsor Content, Strategic HR

Nadini Rajagopalan addresses the topic of executive compensation, one that has fascinated both academic researchers and the business press for the past several decades.

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Developing Effective Self-Managing Work Teams in Service Organizations

Nov 17, 1996 | Performance Management, Sponsor Content

This paper by S. Cohen, G. Spreitzer, and G. Ledford, Jr. draws upon the authors’ research on the use of self-managed work teams (SMWTs) in two service organizations: a telecommunications company and an insurance operation.

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