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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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Explaining How Survivors Respond to Downsizing: The Roles of Trust, Empowerment, Justice and Work Redesign

Mar 5, 1998 | Change Management, Organization Design, Sponsor Content

In this paper, Aneil K. Mishra and Gretchen M. Spreitzer develop a stress-based framework of survivors’ responses to downsizing.

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The Search for Flexibility: Skills and Workplace Innovation in the German Pump Industry

Mar 3, 1998 | Innovation, Sponsor Content, Talent Management

David Finegold and Karin Wagner find that the existence of a highly skilled workforce may deter the adoption of multifunctional work teams, but that countervailing strengths of the German skill-creation system can potentially help firms develop a new, distinctive German production model.

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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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Learning and Knowledge Management in Team-Based New Product Development Organizations

Feb 2, 1998 | Innovation, Organization Design, Sponsor Content

S. Mohrman, R. Tenkasi, and A. Mohrman, Jr. discuss how configuring organizations into cross-functional new product development teams introduces new knowledge management and learning challenges.

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Creating Effective Pay Systems for Teams

Jan 1, 1998 | Compensation and Benefits, Sponsor Content

Ed Lawler III affirms that rewards are an important element in any formal organization. In order to be effective, organizations must answer the fundamental question of why individuals should commit their time, effort, and ideas to it.

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Control of International Joint Ventures

Nov 17, 1997 | Organization Design, Sponsor Content

Tom L.C.M. Groot and Kenneth A. Merchant explain that as markets have become more globalized and competitive, it has become increasingly difficult for any single company to excel, and thus be competitive, in all aspects of a given business.

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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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The Front-Back Hybrid Organization

Oct 13, 1997 | Organization Design, Sponsor Content

Jay Galbraith explains that a number of companies have been adopting a hybrid structure in order to respond to the simultaneous demands to be local and customer responsive and yet be global and capture scale economics.

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Voices from the Field Trends in Executive Education and Development

Oct 12, 1997 | Change Management, Leadership, Sponsor Content

Jay Conger and Katherine R. Xin explain that in the smaller, faster world of the 21st century, business executives must know how to lead change within their organizations.

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Adult Learning and Executive Education

Oct 11, 1997 | Sponsor Content, Talent Management

Jay Conger and Katherine Xin explain that few efforts have been made to link the field of adult learning to executive education despite the potential for enhancing the impact of programs.

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