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Doing Research That is Useful for Theory and Practice

Doing Research That is Useful for Theory and Practice

Edward E. Lawler III, Allan M. Mohrman, Susan A. Mohrman, Gerald E. Ledford, Jr. and Thomas G. Cummings, (Jossey-Bass, 1999)
Dealing with issues that cut across all social and behavioral sciences, Doing Research That Is Useful for Theory and Practice is full of practical advice on conducting successful research.

Pay Strategy – New Thinking for the New Millennium

Ed Lawler argues that it is time for new thinking, new practices and more strategic direction in the pay systems of organizations.

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Identifying Strategic Leaders

Kathleen K. Reardon and Alan Rowe state that the key component of successful leadership now and in the next century is a responsiveness to continuous change.

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Identifying Strategic Leaders

Kathleen K. Reardon and Alan Rowe argue that the key component of successful leadership now and in the next century is a responsiveness to continuous change. Such responsiveness requires suspending the illusion of control and denial of uncertainty psychologists tell us are characteristic of human thinking.

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The Impact of Team Level Strategic Context on Team Process Innovation

In this study, Mary E. Zellmer-Bruhn and Cristina B. Gibson apply the concept of strategic context (Prahalad & Doz, 1987; Schulz & Jobe, 1997) to the team level and examine how team strategic context relates to team process innovativeness.

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Who Needs MBA’s in H.R.? USC’s Strategic H.R. Management MBA Concentration

P. Adler and E. Lawler III discuss how article after article on the future of U.S. corporations stresses the importance of HR skills for line managers and “business partner” skills for HR managers. Despite this very few MBA programs offer concentrations in HRM.

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The Role of Top Management in Large Scale Change: The View From Within

Sue Mohrman argues that top management should focus on organizational architecture, on leading the learning process, on providing very clear strategic direction, and on building a new employment relationship.

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

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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Transforming the Human Resources Function

Sue Mohrman and Ed Lawler state that the emergence of the global economy, overcapacity in many industries, monumental improvements in the power of computer and telecommunications tools, and the emergence of the knowledge economy are among the forces that are resulting in fundamental change in the design of organizations.

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Towards a Theory of Strategic Change: A Multi-Lens Perspective and Integrative Framework

Nandini Rajagopalan and Gretchen M. Spreitzer provide a comprehensive review of the strategic change literature from three theoretical lenses: the rational, learning, and cognitive lenses.

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Adding Value in Banking: An Innovative Human Resource Strategy

Brent Keltner and David Finegold state that raising levels of human capital investment to improve the quality of service delivery can be done but it requires restructuring recruiting and training practices in light of institutional constraints.

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