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Human Resource Management in Northern Mexico: Lessons Learned by Maquiladora Managers

Dec 27, 1995 | Performance Management, Sponsor Content

This article by Lisa Hope Pelled and Kenneth D. Hill presents the voices of maquiladoras managers as they described the key HRM challenges they have faced in Northern Mexico and how they have handled those challenges.

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Impact of Employee Involvement and Total Quality Management Programs

Dec 15, 1995 | Employee Engagement, Sponsor Content

S. Mohrman, E. Lawler III, and G. Ledford, Jr. discuss study results from continuing research on the impact of employee involvement and total quality management programs.

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Strategy, Core Competencies and HR Involvement as Determinants of HR Effectiveness and Refinery Performance

Nov 17, 1995 | Organizational Effectiveness, Performance Management, Sponsor Content, Strategic HR, Strategy Execution

Patrick M. Wright, Gary C. McMahan, Blaine McCormick, and W. Scott Sherman examined the impact strategy, core competence, and involvement of HR executives in strategic decision making on the refinery managers’ evaluation of the effectiveness of HR and refinery performance among 86 U.S. petro-chemical refineries.

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Motivation for School Reform

Aug 14, 1995 | Organization Design, Organizational Effectiveness, Sponsor Content, Uncategorized

S. Mohrman and E. Lawler III state that the school reform movement seeks higher educational standards for all students, moving authority into the local school to develop new approaches and apply resources appropriately to meet the needs of all students, and new approaches to teaching and learning meet the educational needs of modern society.

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Empowered to Lead: Psychological Empowerment and Transformational Leadership

Aug 13, 1995 | Leadership, Sponsor Content

Gretchen M. Spreitzer, Suzanne C. DeJanasz, and Robert E. Quinn examine the relationship between managerial cognitions of empowerment and transformational leadership.

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Human Resource System Effects at Production Facilities in Mexico

Jun 19, 1995 | Performance Management, Sponsor Content, Talent Management

Lisa Hope Pelled and Kenneth D. Hill examined human resource system effects on performance and turnover at 40 production facilities in Mexico.

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Reward Innovations in Fortune 1000 Companies

Jun 9, 1995 | Compensation and Benefits, Innovation, Sponsor Content

This paper by G. Ledford, Jr., E. Lawler III, and S. Mohrman summarizes data on reward innovations from a unique sample of large U.S. firms, based on survey data collected in 1987, 1990, and 1993.

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Assessing the Factors Influencing Differences Between Supervisor and Subordinate Performance Ratings: A Multiple Sample Study

Jun 8, 1995 | Performance Management, Sponsor Content

K. Kacmar, D. Carlson, P. Wright, and G. McMahan discuss 360 degree feedback techniques including, among others, performance ratings by self and supervisor.

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Automate or Informate? An Investigation of the Effects of Information Technology on Motivation and Performance

Jun 7, 1995 | Digital Transformation, Performance Management, Sponsor Content

Research by Gary C. McMahan, Richard W. Woodman, and Patrick M. Wright supports the hypotheses that task discretion moderates the relationship between both information technology and task motivation and the relationship between information technology and task performance.

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Institutional Effects on Skill Creation: A Comparison of Management Development in the U.S. and Germany

May 31, 1995 | Sponsor Content, Strategic HR, Talent Management

David Finegold and Brent Keltner explain that changes in requirements for competitive success in the global economy have led political economists to devote greater attention to shifts in corporate strategy and differences in education and training, primarily for production workers, across the industrialized countries.

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Empowering Middle Managers to be Transformational Leaders: A Field Study

May 12, 1995 | Leadership, Sponsor Content, Talent Management

In this paper, Gretchen Spreitzer and Robert E. Quinn describe a field study of a large scale management development program for a Fortune 100 organization’s population of middle managers designed to stimulate change.

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Paying for the Skills, Knowledge, and Competencies of Knowledge Workers

Apr 6, 1995 | Compensation and Benefits, Sponsor Content

G. Ledford, Jr. defines competency-based pay and relates the definition to the more familiar approach, skill-based pay.

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