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Performance Measure Choice and Target Setting in Loss-Making Firms

Feb 4, 2005 | Performance Management, Sponsor Content

Kenneth A. Merchant (USC), Wim A. Van Der Stede (USC), and Michal Matejka (University of Michigan) share that prior research has shown the absence of a significant link between financial performance measures and cash incentive payments in loss-making firms, but only conjectures have been offered to explain this finding.

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Performance Measure Choice and Target Setting in Loss-Making Firms

Feb 3, 2005 | Compensation and Benefits, Performance Management, Sponsor Content

Kenneth A. Merchant (USC), Wim A. Van Der Stede (USC), and Michal Matejka (University of Michigan) examine the choice of performance measures and performance target difficulty in CEO annual bonus plans in loss-making firms.

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Measuring the Impact of a Managerial Competency System: Does Identifying and Rewarding Potential Leaders Improve Organizational Performance?

Aug 14, 2004 | Compensation and Benefits, Performance Management, Sponsor Content

Alec R. Levenson (CEO), Wim A. Van Der Stede (USC), and Susan Cohen (CEO) discuss how the use of competency systems to evaluate, reward, and promote managers has become commonplace in large organizations in recent years.

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Effects of Task Interdependence and Type of Communication on Performance in Virtual Teams

Jul 11, 2004 | Innovation, Performance Management, Remote Work/Virtual Teams, Sponsor Content

This laboratory study by Susan G. Cohen (CEO) and Ramon Rico (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) proposes a model of virtual team performance based on the fit between the characteristics of the task and the type of communication media used by members of the team.

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Talentship: The Future of Human Resource Measurement

Feb 4, 2004 | Future of HR, Performance Management, Sponsor Content, Talent Management

John W. Boudreau (CEO) and Peter M. Ramstad (Personnel Decisions International) share that there is no shortage of measures in human resources. Unfortunately to date these measures have had little impact on how effectively organizations manage human capital, the apparent and hidden talents of employees and potential employees.

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What It Means To Treat People Right

Jan 3, 2004 | Employee Equity, Performance Management, Sponsor Content, Talent Management

A key part of treating people right is the establishment of a mutually beneficial employment relationship or contract. What a contract should contain, and how it can be turned into an employer brand is the focus of this article by Edward E. Lawler III (CEO).

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Leading a Virtuous Spiral Organization

Sep 22, 2003 | Employee Equity, Performance Management, Sponsor Content

Edward Lawler argues that in today’s organizations it is impossible to separate the performance and well being of organizations from the performance and well being of their members.

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Reward Practices and Performance Management

Jul 21, 2003 | Compensation and Benefits, Performance Management, Sponsor Content

E. Lawler explains that there is one potential determinant of performance management system effectiveness, however, which has received relatively little attention: how tightly the results of the performance management system are tied to significant rewards.

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360-Degree Assessment: Time for Reinvention

May 17, 2003 | Performance Management, Sponsor Content

G. Toegel and J. Conger discuss one of the most popular management development tools in use today, the 360-degree assessment instrument. In recent years, however, its popularity has led to uses beyond its original application for management development.

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Work-Team Performance Motivated by Collective Thought: The Structure and Function

Jan 9, 2003 | Performance Management, Sponsor Content

In this article, Cristina B. Gibson and Christopher Earley extend extant theory and develop a motivational model of group efficacy that integrates function with structural features including collective origins, collective construction, identifiable characteristics, and recursive relationships.

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The Efficacy Advantage: Factors Related to the Formation of Group Efficacy

Jan 8, 2003 | Performance Management, Sponsor Content

Extending previous research investigating factors related to the formation of group efficacy, this research by Cristina B. Gibson examined predictors across cultures and groups of various types.

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From Knowledge Accumulation to Accommodation: Cycles of Collective Cognition in Work Groups

Jan 6, 2003 | Performance Management, Sponsor Content, Talent Management

In this paper by Cristina B. Gibson, a framework for collective cognition in the workplace is developed to provide guidance to groups, their leaders, and researchers interested in understanding and improving cognitive processes.

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